Terms Used In 12 Guam Code Ann. § 9112

  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
(a) Any person including natural persons, partnerships, and corporations shall be entitled to be a member of the Bureau.

(b) There shall be two (2) classes of membership:

(1) ‘Contributing Members’ who shall be those members contributing the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or more annually; and

(2) ‘Honorary Members’ being those members contributing less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) annually.

Only contributing Members shall be entitled to vote, however, membership meetings shall be open to all members.

(c) Contributing members may acquire multiple voting rights on the basis of one (1) vote for each annual contribution of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), payable in lump sum or installments, provided, no single membership shall be entitled to more than ten (10) votes. All contributions of contributing members herein mentioned shall be cash and must be paid in full ninety (90) days prior to having any voting rights.

(d) A quorum of the membership shall require attendance of at least fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power of the members. Except as otherwise provided by law, any act of the members shall require a vote of a majority of the voting power of the members present at any meeting duly held. Contributing members may be present and may vote by proxy, provided written authorization of proxy is delivered to the Secretary or
General Manager, or the Chairperson of the meeting at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the commencement of the meeting which is the subject of the proxy.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, government funds of any department, agency or instrumentality of the government may not be used to pay membership dues or acquire voting rights. Any such funds used to acquire or continue membership or acquire or continue voting rights after October 1,
1985 shall be reimbursed to the affected department, agency or instrumentality of the government.

(f) At elections of directors by the membership, each member who has acquired the right to cast votes at such election shall case as many votes as the member has acquired for each of four (4) candidates. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section
307 of the Civil Code, cumulative voting is prohibited.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 17-32. Subsection (e) added [as (f)] by P.L.
18-30:62; subsection (f) added by [as (e)] by P.L. 18-48:11.

2015 NOTE: Subsection designations in (b) were altered pursuant to 1
GCA § 1606.