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Terms Used In 12 Guam Code Ann. § 5401

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
As used in this Article:

(a) Authority means the Guam Housing and Urban Renewal
Authority.

(b) Board means the Board of Commissioners of the Guam
Housing and Urban Renewal Authority.

(c) Plan means that subdivision plan described in the
Consolidation Survey Map of Lot Numbers 10124-1, 10124-2 and
10124-3, Dededo, Guam into Tract 240, and in the Subdivision
Survey Map of Tract 240, Dededo, Guam for single-family dwellings and for two-family duplex dwellings. ‘Duplex’ means a residential building containing two (2) separate dwelling units, either side-by-side or one (1) above the other. The plan shall include:

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(1) the platting of lots, mapping, layout and design of all street and utilities;

(2) the provision of open spaces and recreational facilities sufficient to meet the needs of the residents of the subdivision; and

(3) the requirement that duplexes may only be constructed on lots within the subdivision that are serviced by adequate sewer lines, as certified in writing by Guam Waterworks Authority and the Guam Environmental Protection Agency. The plan shall otherwise be in substantial conformance with the provisions of 21 Guam Code Ann., Chapter 62 (Subdivision Law), except where the Board finds such provisions impractical. The plan shall also provide adequate protection for the sink hole, and for a safety margin to prevent any development in the sink hole, and shall include provisions to relocate persons displaced by the construction of the subdivision and to pay relocation expenses to such displaced persons.

(d) The plan mentioned in (c) above shall, to the greatest extent possible, include provisions for federal funding. Specifically, the Authority is directed to use Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($600,000) made available or to be made available to it by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development as a disbursement from the Secretary’s discretionary funds.

(e) Family means two (2) or more persons related by blood or marriage living together as a household, the head of which is a United States citizen or permanent resident.

(f) Single person means an adult who is unmarried, widowed, divorced or is living separately from his spouse in accordance with a decree of separate maintenance entered by a court of competent jurisdiction.

SOURCE: GC § 13940, as added by P.L. 14-138. Subsection (3) repealed and reenacted by P.L. 22-70:2; amended by P.L. 25-114:2.

2013 NOTE: Pursuant to the authority granted by 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606, numbers and/or letters were altered to adhere to the Compiler’s alpha-numeric scheme.