5 GCA § 9300

Legislative Intent

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 5 — Government Operations

It is the intent of the Legislature to establish a uniform method of making, adopting, promulgating, filing and publishing rules by all agencies of this Territory, to permit public participation therein and provide a method of making rules readily accessible to the public. It is not intended to give to any agency any additional rule-making power or authority and no additional or new power or authority to make or adopt rules is given to any agency by this law.

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Enacted by P.L. 13-40 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)

Interpreted by the courts:

1998 Guam 8 — Lee and Joan Holmes vs. Territorial Land Use Commission, et al. (1998) · per Janet Healy Weeks, J.
2018 Guam 1 — Port Authority of Guam, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Civil Service Commission, Respondent-Appellee, and Jose B. Guevara III, (2018) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J.
2018 Guam 18 — Port Transportation, Stevedore, and Terminal Employees, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Guam Civil Service Commission, Respon (2018) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J.
2020 Guam 12 — Guam Police Department, Appellant vs. The Guam Civil Service Commission, Respondent-Appellant and MArk C. Charfauros, Ap (2020) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J.
2021 Guam 22 — Leevin Taitano Camacho, Attorney General of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dafne M. Shimizu, Director, Guam Department of (2021)

Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.