(a) There is hereby created a Guam Environmental Protection Agency, hereinafter referred to as the Agency. The management of the Agency shall be vested in a Board of Directors consisting of nine (9) members to be appointed by I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi with the advice and consent of I Liheslatura. Members of the Board shall serve for a period of three (3) years each, except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed, shall be
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appointed for the remainder of such term. The terms shall stagger so that three (3) members shall be appointed by I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi each year, except that in the year in which the law is enacted, I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi shall appoint three (3) members for one (1) year; three (3) members for two (2) years; and three (3) members for three (3) years. The majority of the members of the Board shall not be employees of the government of Guam. A chairman shall be elected from among the members. (b) Members of the Board shall be compensated at the rate of Fifty Dollars ($50) per meeting attended subject to a maximum of twenty (20) meetings per member per year. SOURCE: GC § 57002. 2025 NOTE: Subsection designations added pursuant to the authority of 1 GCA § 1606. Reference to the “Governor” replaced with I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi pursuant to 5 GCA § 1510. Reference to the “Legislature” replaced with I Liheslatura pursuant to 2 GCA § 1101. NOTE: See 5 GCA Chapter 43 for restrictions imposed on scheduling of the twenty meetings authorized here.