Terms Used In 22 Guam Code Ann. § 32115

  • 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.
(a) The applicant may be subjected to such examinations as may be deemed necessary to determine his qualifications. The examinations will be held at such times and place as the Board may direct.

(b) Examinations, as specified in the rules and regulations, may be taken only after the applicant has met the other minimum requirements, as provided for by § 32113.

(c) A candidate failing an examination may apply for re-examination, which may be granted upon payment of a fee established by the Board.

(d) A candidate whose grade in a previous examination indicates that he is unprepared may, at the discretion of the Board, be required to wait one (1) year before being eligible for re-examination.

(e) The Board shall have prepared and adopted a syllabus for the examinations in engineering, architecture, landscape architecture and land surveying. It shall be published in brochure form and be available as a handout to any person interested in being registered as a professional engineer, architect, landscape architect or land surveyor.

(f) Members of the PEALS Board are prohibited from taking any engineering, architecture, landscape architecture or land surveying examination administered on Guam while serving on the Board. However, members may take such in another jurisdiction and have the examination scores accepted on Guam by the Board, so long as said examination does not conflict with the provisions of this Chapter, and is of a standard not lower than that of an examination for the same administered on Guam.