Power and Duties

(a) The Administrator of the Guam Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the Attorney General’s Office, is empowered to prescribe and amend such rules and procedures as are necessary for the efficient implementation of this Article. (b) Violations of this Article will be recorded on forms approved by and prosecuted within the Traffic Division of the Superior Court of Guam. (c) Apprehending officers, as defined herein, shall have the power to apprehend persons violating this Article and issue citations for such violation. (d) Guam EPA is authorized to establish a program that rewards individuals whose reporting of littering violations results in the conviction or imposition of fines or penalties of the alleged perpetrator, in accordance with this Article. SOURCE: GC § 57184 as added by P.L. 14-037:1 (June 18, 1977). Repealed and reenacted by P.L. 17-087:7 (Jan. 18, 1985) and P.L. 23-064 (Dec. 5, 1995). Subsection (d) added by P.L. 37-077:2 (Mar. 6, 2024).