5 GCA § 6106
Limitations on Actions and Filing
View official PDF ↗(a)All claims under this Act must be filed within 18 months from the date the claim arose, but any claims timely filed under the predecessor of this Act shall be considered to have been timely filed under this Chapter.
(b)Every action filed under this Chapter shall be barred unless commenced within 18 months from the time the notice that the claim was rejected was served as provided in Article 2 of this Chapter, or within 24 months after the claim was filed in cases where the government does not reject the claim.
§ The story of this section
- Enacted by P.L. 17-29 § 1 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
Interpreted by the courts:
- 2000 Guam 19 — Pacific Rock Corporation v. Department of Education, a department of the Executive Branch of the Government of Guam, an (2000) · per Benjamin J.F. Cruz, J.
- 2000 Guam 33 — Margarita D. Perez and Jesse C. Toves v. Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority (GHURA) (2000) · per Benjamin J.F. Cruz, J.
- 2001 Guam 21 — Pacific Rock Corporation v. Department of Education (2001) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J.
- 2003 Guam 19 — National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, PA, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority, De (2003) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J.
- 2007 Guam 10 — William M. Limtiaco, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Guam Fire Department, Government of Guam, and Michael Uncangco, in his offi (2007) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J.
- 2011 Guam 8 — Guam Police Department, Petitioner, v. Superior Court of Guam,Respondent,v. Anthony Lujan dba Big Ben & Co., Real Party (2011) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J.
- 2014 Guam 7 — Guam YTK Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Port Authority of Guam, Defendant-Appellee, CVA13-009 (2014) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J.
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.