Settlement of Claim Before Action

(a)The Attorney General, subject to the approval of I Maga’lahen Guåhan for settlements of over Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) for a claim for damages to a motor vehicle incurred in an accident involving the motor vehicle of the claimant filed exclusively pursuant to § 6105(b), where the aggregate of the claim for the motor vehicle of the claimant, not COL6/24/2021 CH. 6 GOVERNMENT CLAIMS ACT including any claim, or any portion of the claim, for personal injury, is for less than Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00); and Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) for all other claims, may settle for money damages any claim against a line agency or autonomous agency under this Chapter. The Attorney General may recommend other relief, if appropriate.

(b)In the case of autonomous agencies, the Claims Officer, subject to the approval of the Board, the Attorney General and I Maga’lahen Guåhan, or if there be no Board, the highest official of such agency, the Attorney General and I Maga’lahen Guåhan for settlements of over Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) for a claim for damages to a motor vehicle incurred in an accident involving the motor vehicle of the claimant filed exclusively pursuant to § 6105(b), where the aggregate of the claim for the motor vehicle of the claimant, not including any claim, or any portion of the claim, for personal injury, is for less than Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00); and Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) for all other claims, may settle for money damages any claim filed against said agency under this Chapter. The Attorney General may recommend other relief as may be appropriate.

(c)Settlement of any claims concerning the government of Guam shall not be sealed and shall be open to public inspection. The Attorney General or the attorney for the agency shall send a copy of each settlement to the Speaker of I Liheslaturan Guåhan within five

(5)days of approval by I Maga’lahen Guåhan.

(d)Approved settlements shall not be subject to fiscal year limitations on the authority of government agencies to make full payments in resolution of a claim.