) The Marshal of the Court, before entering on the duties of his or her office, shall give a bond in the sum of not less than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) for the faithful performance of duty by himself or herself and his or her deputies during his or her continuance in office and by his or her deputies after his or her death until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. The amount of the bond shall be set and approved by the Judicial Council and filed and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court.

(b) Such bond shall be a corporate surety bond, and the premium therefor shall be paid out of appropriations for the judicial branch of the government of Guam.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 21-147:2 (Jan. 14, 1993). Subsection (a) amended by P.L.
24-139:23 (Feb. 7, 1998) and P.L. 27-031:33 (Oct. 31, 2003).

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 as there were no amendments prior to P.L. 24-139. The main difference is to place all the responsibility for bonding with the Supreme Court..

1985 SOURCE: CCP § 203 added by P.L. 5-75.

1985 COMMENT: Both this Section and § 4311 have been modified to refer to the Superior Court, which was created by P.L. 12-85, and to the Supreme Court, created by this Act.

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