Terms Used In 10 Guam Code Ann. § 3814

  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
The Council shall review and approve the plans and programs of the Community Health Center by the Bureau and for that purpose shall perform the following duties:

(a) review and make recommendation of the Bureau’s annual budget for the Community Health Center;
(b) review and make recommendation of the Bureau’s three (3) – year Plan and its annual update for the Community Health Center;

(c) periodically review available and needed services provided by the Center;

(d) promote the utilization and assistance of interested persons, including recovered clients, volunteering their service to the patients of the Center in whatever qualified service they can provide; and

(e) review and comment on all new and renewed
Federal grants application.

(f) Shall approve by resolution all expenditures allowed in § 3811 of this Chapter greater than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000);

(g) may approve by resolution a Memorandum of Understanding between the Community Health Centers and the Department of Revenue and Taxation to garnish income tax refunds of recipients of products and services rendered by the Community Health Centers who have not fulfilled their payment obligation for said products and services. The Board shall adopt a policy to govern the referral of such tax refund garnishment requests to the Department of Revenue and Taxation.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 24-248:2 (Aug. 14, 1998). Subsections (f)
and (g) added by P.L. 30-108:4 (Mar. 12, 2010).

2012 NOTE: In maintaining the general codification scheme of the GCA the Compiler changed the hierarchy of subsections beginning with “”Numbers”” to “”Lowercase Letters”” in this chapter.