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Terms Used In 19 Guam Code Ann. § 2115

  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(a) Blind persons, visually handicapped persons, and other physically disabled persons shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, motor buses, boats or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation, hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, or state or Federal regulation, and applicable alike to all persons.
(b) Blind persons, visually handicapped persons, and other physically disabled persons shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members

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19 Guam Code Ann. PERSONAL RELATIONS
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of the general public, to all housing accommodations offered for rent, lease, or compensation, in Guam, subject to the conditions and limitations established by law, or Federal regulations, and applicable alike to all persons.

Housing accommodations means any real property, or portion thereof, which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied, as the home, residence, or sleeping place of one or more human beings, but shall not include any accommodations included within Subdivision (a) or any single family residence the occupants of which rent, lease, or furnish for compensation not more than one room therein.

Nothing in this Section shall require any person renting, leasing or providing for compensation real property to modify his property in any way or provide a higher degree of care for a blind person, visually handicapped person, or other physically disabled person than for a person who is not physically disabled.
Nothing in this Chapter shall require any person renting, leasing, or providing for compensation real property, if such person refuses to accept tenants who have dogs, to accept as a tenant a blind person, visually handi- capped person, or other physically disabled person who has a dog, including a guide dog.
SOURCE: CC ‘54.3 enacted by P.L. 11-96.

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