(a) ‘Board’ shall mean the Decolonization Registry Board established under the Guam Election Commission for the purposes of guiding the establishment, administration and maintenance of the Guam Decolonization Registry.

(b) ‘Commission’ shall mean the Guam Election Commission.

(c) ‘Descendant’ shall mean a person who has proceeded by birth, such as a child or grandchild, to the remotest degree, from any ‘Native Inhabitant of Guam,’ as defined in Subsection (e), and who is considered placed in a line of succession from such ancestor where such succession is by virtue of blood relations.

(d) ‘Guam Decolonization Registry’ shall mean the index of names established by the Guam Election Commission (‘Commission’) for the purposes of registering and recording the names of the Native Inhabitants of Guam.

(e) ‘Native Inhabitants of Guam’ shall mean those persons who became U.S. Citizens by virtue of the authority and enactment of the 1950 Organic Act of Guam and descendants of those persons.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 25-106:2 (Mar. 24, 2000).

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