5 GCA § 6208
Action Against the Government
View official PDF ↗A claimant may institute an action in contract or tort, for money damages only, against the government of Guam in the event the claim is made against a line agency, or against the specific agency involved in the event the claim is made against COL6/24/2021 CH. 6 GOVERNMENT CLAIMS ACT an autonomous agency, in the Superior Court of Guam, provided that:
(a)The claimant has been notified by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, that his claim has been rejected in whole or in part; or
(b)Thirty
(30)calendar days have elapsed since the date of filing 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); or six
(6)months have elapsed since the date of filing any other claim with the Claims Officer.
§ The story of this section
- Enacted by P.L. 17-29 § 1 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 25-130 § 3 — introduced as Bill 365-25 · introduced by Vicente C. Pangelinan
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. · cited at ¶18
- 2014 Guam 7 — Guam YTK Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Port Authority of Guam, Defendant-Appellee, CVA13-009 (2014) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · cited at ¶56
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.