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Terms Used In 12 Guam Code Ann. § 5128

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
(a) All property, including funds of the Authority, shall be exempt from judicial process of every kind, including, without limitation, attachment, levy, execution and sale by virtue of an execution, and no judgment shall be a lien or charge upon its property or funds; provided, that the provisions of such section shall not apply to or limit the rights or obligees of the Authority to foreclose or otherwise enforce and mortgage or other security of the Authority or to pursue any remedies for the enforcement of any lien or pledge given by the Authority upon its rents, fees or revenues, or to the rights of the Federal Government to pursue any remedies conferred upon it by federal law, any contract or the provisions of this Article.

(b) The property of the Authority, acquired or held for the purposes of this Article, is declared to be public property used for essential public and governmental purposes, and such property, and the Authority, are exempt from all taxes and special assessments of the government of Guam; provided, that with respect to any property acquired or held for the purposes of urban renewal, such tax exemption shall terminate when the Authority sells, leases or otherwise disposes of such property in an urban renewal area to a purchaser or lessee which is not entitled to tax exemption with respect to such property.

(c) In lieu of taxes on its housing projects, the Authority may agree to make such payments to the government of Guam, or to any agency or instrumentality as may be designated by the government of Guam, as it finds consistent, from time to time, with the maintenance of the low-rent character of housing projects, the obligations of the Authority, and the achievement of the purposes of this Article.

(d) In lieu of taxes on real property in an urban renewal area acquired and owned by the Authority as part of an urban renewal project, the Authority may agree, from time to time and with respect to any taxable year, to make to the government of Guam such payments in lieu of taxes as are consistent with the achievement of the purposes of this Article.

SOURCE: GC § 13926.