Registration: Loss, Theft, Etc.

(a) In the event any registration card or license plate is stolen, lost, mutilated or illegible, the owner of the vehicle for which the same was issued as shown by the records of the Department of Revenue and Taxation, shall immediately make application for and may, upon furnishing information satisfactory to the Department, obtain a duplicate of, or a substitute for a new registration under a new registration number, as determined to be most advisable by the Department. (b) In the event both license plates have been lost by, or stolen from the registered owner, he shall immediately notify the Guam Police Department, and he shall immediately apply to the Department of Revenue and Taxation for new plates in lieu of the plates lost or stolen. In every proper case, except in the case of plates which are exempted from fees, the Department shall issue a pair of license plates of a definite number and assign such registration number to the vehicle for which such plates are issued. (c) In the event any certificate of ownership is stolen, lost, mutilated or illegible, the legal owner or, if none, then the owner of the vehicle for which the certificate was issued as shown by the records of the Department shall immediately make application for and may, upon furnishing information satisfactory to the Department, obtain a duplicate. SOURCE: GC § 23333, enacted by P.L. 1-088 (Nov. 29, 1952). 2025 NOTE: Former title “Same: Loss, Theft, Etc..” replaced by the Compiler with “Registration: Loss, Theft, Etc..” for clarity. Reference to “Department of Public Safety” replaced with “Guam Police Department” pursuant to P.L. 17- 078:1 (Dec. 12, 1984), which repealed language in GC § 5102 that established the Department of Public Safety, and reenacted language to establish the Guam Police Department.