Terms Used In 7 Guam Code Ann. § 8108

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
) The employees of the Department of Law who are appointed as deputies under § 8107 of this Chapter shall exercise their office only in cases wherein the government of Guam is a party.

(b) The employees of the Department of Revenue and Taxation who are appointed as deputies under said § 8107 shall exercise their office only in matters concerning the income tax laws and other tax and revenue laws of Guam.

(c) The School Attendance Officers of the Department of Education under § 8107 shall exercise their office only in matters concerning truancy proceedings of the Superior Court of Guam.

(d) No deputies under said § 8107 shall be entitled to compensation in addition to the compensation they are receiving as employees of the government of Guam.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 21-147:2 (Jan. 14, 1993). Amended by P.L. 24-139:21 (Feb. 7, 1998), P.L.27-31:30 (Oct. 31, 2003), P.L. 30-167:3 (July 16, 2010).

2015 NOTE: Subsection designations were added in accordance with the authority granted by 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.

COURT DECISIONS: The Supreme Court, in Pangelinan v. Gutierrez, 2000 Guam
11 (2000); affirmed by the Ninth Circuit as 276 F.3d 534 (1/10/2002), held P.L. 24-
139 not to have existed at all as a public law because it was Apocket vetoed@ by the Governor. Therefore, this section reverts to the way it read upon its original enactment reinserting the second paragraph of the section.

1985 SOURCE: CCP § 199 as modified.

1985 COMMENT: The modification here refers to the employment of full-time deputies and distinguishing them from the deputies appointed from within the Executive Branch of the government of Guam. Supreme Court also added to conform with § 6307.