Title 10 — Health and Safety

(a) I Liheslaturan Guåhan has determined that in times of Disaster, such as typhoons and earthquakes, there is a critical need for access to money for emergency measures, capital and non-capital improvements and replacements, renovations and general rehabilitation of Guam’s commu…

The following words and phrases are defined in this Chapter to have the same meaning throughout this Chapter. “Chapter” means “The Disaster Reimbursement Act of 2002.” “DAT” means the Damage Assessment Team, which is composed of any officials designated by FEMA or any other Feder…

(a) Upon passage of this Chapter, the Guam Economic Development and Commerce Authority (GEDCA) shall immediately initiate preparation of solicitation documents from RFP lenders. The solicitation shall require the lender provide a credit facility in the form of a revolving LOC. Th…

Guam shall issue an RFP and execute a contract for services of DDT to be activated after the declaration of a Federal disaster on Guam. The DDT, which shall be selected, organized, paid for and supervised by Guam, will perform the following duties. When a Disaster occurs, a DAT c…

To provide security for the lender for the Guam loans under this Chapter, Guam shall assign the corresponding FEMA funds which are expected to be received. If an assignment is made to FEMA by Guam, to the full extent allowed by Federal and Guam law, the proceeds of the FEMA disbu…

I Maga’hågan/Maga’låhen Guåhan is authorized, upon passage of this Chapter and without further approval, to draw upon the LOC for emergency purposes to address the damage resulting from disasters; provided, such projects have been received and approved for FEMA funding by FEMA; a…

After submission of the FEMA required documentation by the DDT to the GRO and the request for a drawdown by Guam on the revolving LOC, the lender shall pay the money to the LDEA, which will be through an escrow selected by lender, through an escrow process performed directly by l…

This Chapter shall be applicable to all disasters occurring after December 1, 2001. SOURCE: P.L. 26-174:9 (Jan. 5, 2003); compiler by Compiler.

The Lender may use as a source of funds to make loans under the LOC, money from tax-free bonds, if such tax free bonds are available for any portion of the loans of the lender. Guam acknowledges and understands that at least as to the LOC loans repaid by FEMA reimbursement, that …

There is hereby appropriated annually from the General Fund the amount necessary to fully fund the debt service on the local matching funds required and incidental charges of the line of credit proceeds used for such purposes. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 26-174:11 (Jan. 5, 2003); codif…

(a) There is hereby created within the Guam Police Department of the territory of Guam the Civilian Volunteer Police Reserve, which shall be headed by the Chief of Police, hereinafter referred to as the Chief of Police. (b) The Chief of Police, subject to the advice and control o…

(a) The general functions and duties of the Civilian Volunteer Police Reserve shall be to provide backup manpower for the suppression of crime, preservation of law and order, fight and control fires and to assist in civil emergencies. (b) The Chief of Police shall formulate a pro…

(a) The Chief of Police shall recruit on an entirely volunteer basis, local residents who desire to make available their services to assist the Guam Police Department in carrying out its crime prevention, fire control and emergency functions. (b) The Chief of Police shall further…

(a) Training for the Civilian Volunteer Police Reserve members shall be conducted pursuant to the provision of the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission in Chapter 51 of 17 GCA. Initial training requirements shall be identical to those required of Guam Police Off…

Whenever either the police or fire units of the Civilian Volunteer Police Reserve, and the members thereof are rendering assistance to the police or fireman, as the case may be, such volunteers shall have the same powers, duties, rights (including coverage under the Worker’s Comp…

Each member of the civilian Volunteer Police Reserve who successfully completes probationary requirements as established by the Chief of Police, and who contributes a minimum of forty- two hours or more per month, shall receive an allowance of Five Hundred Dollars ($500) per mont…

(a) The Guam Police Department (GPD) may employ CVPR Officers on a temporary, full-time basis, if such Officers are active members and have attained at least two thousand eighty (2,080) cumulative service hours, if a critical need arises because of military activation of police o…

(a) No person shall be a volunteer member of the Civilian Volunteer Police Reserve established under this Chapter who advocates a change by force or violence in the constitutional form of the Government of the United States or in this Territory or the overthrow of any government …

The Chief of Police is authorized and empowered to recom- mend to the Governor for issuance as executive orders the making, amendment and recession of such orders, rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Chapter. SOURCE: GC § 8966, as repeale…

The Neighborhood Patrol Unit shall be comprised of police officers with a rank of, at minimum, Police Officer I. Police officers assigned to the Neighborhood Patrol Unit may be assigned uniforms designed to distinguish them as members of such unit in accordance with standard rule…

There is within the Office of I Maga’hågan/Maga’låhen Guåhan an Office of Veterans Affairs. The Veterans Affairs Officer is the administrative head of the Office of Veterans Affairs and is a member of the unclassified service, appointed by I Maga’hågan/Maga’låhen Guåhan and with …

As used in this Chapter: (a) “Officer” means Veterans Affairs Officer. (b) “Office” means the Office of Veterans Affairs. (c) “Veteran” means a person who served in the active military, naval, air service to include and was discharged or released there from under conditions other…

(a) The Office shall be responsible for the administration of all local laws respecting veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States. (b) It shall also be that agency of the government of Guam charged with the responsibility of cooperating with the Veterans Administration of…

The Officer: (a) shall administer the Office and implement the provisions set forth in § 67102 above; (b) shall exercise and discharge the duties of the Office through such organizational units as he may establish; (c) shall enforce the provisions of this Chapter and of any other…

The Guam Veterans Cemetery shall be used for the burial of persons who served honorably in the armed forces of the United States, the Insular Guard, the Guam Militia, the Guam Scouts, the Guam Combat Patrol or who were employed in a civil capacity on Wake Island on December 7, 19…

Upon effective date of this Chapter, all contracts, books, records, papers, documents, property and pending business heretofore made, used and acquired or conducted by the Veterans Affairs Coordinator shall be transferred to the Office of Veterans Affairs, and all employees of th…

Any veteran of the United States Armed Forces shall be buried without charge to the family of the deceased veteran in the Veteran’s Cemetery of Guam. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 18-024:11 (Dec. 21, 1985).

(a) The Veterans Cemetery Trust Fund is transferred from the Guam Parks Commission to the Guam Veterans Commission. (b) Any money paid by the federal government to Guam in connection with the use of the Cemetery shall be deposited in the Veterans Cemetery Trust Fund and used for …

The Veterans Affairs Officer may solicit, accept, utilize and administer on behalf of the Office of Veterans Affairs, gifts, bequests and donations. (a) The funds received shall be deposited in the Veterans Affairs Fund. (b) Such gifts, bequests and donations shall be used for (1…

(a) Commission Membership. There is hereby established a Guam Veterans Commission which shall, at a minimum, be composed of a total of six approved Veteran organizations whose representatives to the Commission are Veterans who have been nominated by their respective organizations…

[Repealed.] SOURCE: Added by P.L. 30-086:2 (Feb. 8, 2010). Repealed by P.L. 38-090:6 (Dec. 20, 2025).

When the position of Veterans Affairs Officer, Office of Veterans Affairs is vacant or vacated, the Guam Veterans Commission may recommend a nominee to I Maga’hågan/Maga’låhen Guåhan from a list of eligible applicant(s) provided by the Department of Administration. SOURCE: Added …

There is hereby created, separate and apart from other funds of the government of Guam, a special fund known as the Veterans Affairs Fund (Fund). COL 2026-04-23 TITLE 10 HEALTH AND SAFETY (a) The Fund shall not be commingled with the General Fund or any other funds of the governm…

(a) The Office of Veterans Affairs shall be responsible for the establishment and maintenance of a Guam Veterans Registry (Registry), which shall be updated no less than semiannually. (1) The update of the Registry shall entail the addition of newly registered veterans residing o…

(a) The Guam Office of Veterans Affairs shall provide information on various programs available to veterans in the area of healthcare. The Office shall: (1) provide assistance to disabled and elderly veterans in the scheduling of patient appointments, tracking, reviewing, and res…

The Director shall develop rules and regulations, consistent with the provisions of Chapter 9, 5 GCA, for the implementation and operation of veterans’ medical support services. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 37-101:1 (June 5, 2024).

Initial funding for the implementation of § 67111, supra, in the amount of Three Hundred Forty Thousand Dollars ($340,000) is appropriated from the General Fund from excess Fiscal Year 2024 revenues. Thereafter, the Director shall include needed funding in the Office’s annual bud…

This Act shall be cited as the “Securing and Ensuring the Rights Veterans Earned (SERVE) Act.”

(a) All references to “Office” in this Act shall mean the Guam Office of Veterans Affairs established under this Chapter, which shall be the agency responsible for implementing the provisions of the Veterans Bill of Rights and this Act. In the development of programs and services…

(a) Housing Assistance. (1) Increase veterans’ access to housing assistance by streamlining processes through inter- governmental and intra-governmental partnerships. (A) The Office shall target housing programs and streamline federal and local processes to expedite and reward ap…

(a) Every person who served in active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States in World War II, the Korean War or the Indo-China Conflict, who at the time of entering such service, was a resident of Guam and who was separated or discharged from his or her respective branch o…

All application for bonuses authorized by this Article must be made to the Office of Veterans Affairs on or before December 31, 1986. Each applicant shall furnish to the Office of Veterans Affairs evidence of his eligibility for a veterans bonus. Eligibility may be evidenced by a…

The Veterans Affairs Officer of the Office of Veterans Affairs, government of Guam, pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Adjudication Act, shall issue all lawful rules and regulations needed to implement the provisions of this Article, including, without limitation, c…

In honor of the Guam Combat Patrol, which has received inadequate recognition from the United States Government, and little prior recognition from the government of Guam, they are hereby authorized to be paid to each veteran of the Guam Combat Patrol, or his survivor or survivors…

The Director of Public Safety shall prepare a list of all bona fide veterans of the Guam Combat Patrol, which list shall govern eligibility for bonuses authorized by this Article. Each eligible veteran, or his survivor or survivors, shall apply for such bonuses to the Director of…

In honor of the Wake Island Workers who have received inadequate recognition from the United States Government, and little prior recognition from the government of Guam, there are hereby authorized to be paid to each of the Wake Island Workers, or his survivor or survivors, bonus…

The Governor shall prepare a list of all bona fide Wake Island Workers, which list shall govern eligibility for bonuses authorized by this Article. Each eligible worker, or his survivor or survivors, shall apply for such bonuses to the Governor, who upon satisfactory proof that s…

In honor of those local residents who served as civilian scouts for the United States Armed Forces during the liberation of Guam in the Second World War, who have never received adequate recognition from either the United States or the territory of Guam, there is hereby authorize…

(a) If a person is entitled to a Guam Civilian Scout Bonus and if he is not living, the amount of compensation to which the person would be entitled shall be paid to his beneficiaries in this order: 1. To the living spouse, except where at the time of the death of the civilian sc…

No person may charge any fee or collect any commission for assisting an applicant for such bonus to prove eligibility or obtain the bonus. Any contract in violation of this Section shall be void, and any person who shall collect any fee or commission in violation of this Section …