8 GCA § 5.55
Peace Officer Defined
View official PDF ↗As used in this Code, peace officer includes:
(a)All Municipal Mayors;
(b)All Municipal Vice Mayors;
(c)The Chief of Police and all Officers of the Guam Police Department;
(d)The Director of Corrections, Correction and Parole Officers, and Rehabilitative Personnel of the Department of Corrections as designated by the Director of Corrections;
(e)The Attorney General and those investigators employed by the Attorney General’s Office whom the Attorney General specifically designates;
(f)The Director of Customs, Customs and Quarantine Officers of the Customs and Quarantine Agency, and those persons under the service of the Agency whom the Director of Customs specifically designates;
(g)The Chief of the Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources, the Conservation Officers of the Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources, the Entomologist, and the Commodity Inspectors of the USDA/Guam Plant Inspection Facility of the Department of Agriculture;
(h)Compliance Officers and Criminal Investigation Supervisors and Criminal Tax Investigators of the Department of Revenue and Taxation; COL 6/21/2023 CH. 5 CONSTRUCTION; DEFINITIONS
(i)The Chief Marshal, Marshals, and Special Deputy Marshals of the Judiciary;
(j)The Director and employees of the Department of Youth Affairs who are engaged in juvenile detention and rehabilitation work as designated by the Director of the Department of Youth Affairs.
(k)The Chief Probation Officer and all probation officers of the Judiciary;
(l)Criminal Investigators and Special Agents of the United States Government as defined as any individual duly authorized by a department, agency or armed force of the United States to conduct or engage in investigations of or prosecutions for violations of the criminal laws of the United States;
(m)Fire Personnel when engaged in the enforcement of the Fire Prevention Code, all Arson Investigators, and those designated by the Fire Chief of the Guam Fire Department;
(n)The Chief of Guam Airport Police and all Guam Airport Police Officers;
(o)The Chief and all of the Jose D. Leon Guerrero Guam Port Authority Police Officers; and
(p)The Chief and all Guam Park Patrol Officers of the Department of Parks and Recreation.
§ The story of this section
- Amended by P.L. 14-111 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Enacted by P.L. 15-134 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Enacted by P.L. 17-16 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Enacted by P.L. 17-78 § 9 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 19-4 § 23 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 23-44 § 1 — introduced as Bill 356-23 · introduced by Ted S. Nelson + 2 cosponsors
- Amended by P.L. 26-38 — introduced as Bill 36-26 · introduced by Vicente C. Pangelinan
- Amended by P.L. 27-36 § 1 — introduced as Bill 76-27 · introduced by John M. Quinata
- Amended by P.L. 29-12 § 3 — introduced as Bill 40-29 · introduced by Frank Ishizaki + 2 cosponsors
- Amended by P.L. 30-153 § 2 — introduced as Bill 304-30 · introduced by Adolpho B. Palacios, Sr + 2 cosponsors
Interpreted by the courts:
- 2005 Guam 16 — The People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. Arthur Salas Root, Defendant-Appellant (2005) · per Frances M. Tydingco-Gatewood, J.
- 2014 Guam 10 — The People of Guam, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jocelyn Rebecca Jesus Leon Guerrero, Defendant-Appellee, CRA13-013 (2014) · per Robert J. Torres, J.
- 2019 Guam 22 — Eric Santos, Petitioner-Appellant, Guam Civil Service Commission, Respondent-Appellee, and Department of Corrections, Go (2019) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J.
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.