Title 1 — General Provisions

(a) The Public Auditor shall be elected by the voters of Guam in a General Election occurring at the same time as the General Election for Mayors. (1) The Public Auditor shall serve a term of four (4) years. (2) The Public Auditor is a non-partisan office. (A) No candidate for th…

The first election for the position of Public Auditor shall occur at the general election that shall take place in November of the year 2000. The Public Auditor elected at such time shall be sworn into office on the first Monday of the following January. The appointed Public Audi…

For the period following the certification of the election and the swearing-in of the Public Auditor- elect, the incumbent Public Auditor, should he or she not be the successful candidate in that election, shall assist the Public Auditor-elect in the preparation of his or her new…

[Repealed.] SOURCE: Added by P.L. 21-122:1 (July 20, 1992). Repealed by P.L. 25-042:4 (June 9, 1999).

[Repealed.] SOURCE: Added by P.L. 21-122:1 (July 20, 1992). Repealed by P.L. 25-042:5 (June 9, 1999). COL 2025-08-27

The Public Auditor shall be (a) a citizen of the United States and a resident of Guam for the five (5) years preceding his or her election, and (b) shall not have been convicted of a felony or suspended in any U.S. or non-U.S. jurisdiction by an ethics board overseeing the certif…

(a) The annual compensation of the Public Auditor shall be One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) and shall not be diminished during the Public Auditor’s term of office. (b) Subject to the availability of funds, the Public Auditor may appoint a Deputy and an Executive Secretary …

(a) The Public Auditor shall, annually, audit or cause to be conducted post-audits of all the transactions and accounts of all departments, offices, corporations, authorities, and agencies in all of the branches of the government of Guam. (b) The Public Auditor may conduct or cau…

The Public Auditor shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To direct and supervise all financial and management audits conducted pursuant to § 1908 of this Chapter so that annual audits are completed for the prior fiscal year no later than June 30. (b) To settle, in accor…

(a) Except pursuant to a subpoena issued by a court of competent jurisdiction for good cause shown, or the powers afforded I Liheslaturan Guåhan under Legislative Investigative Powers, 2 GCA Chapter 3, the Public Auditor shall not be required to disclose any working papers. For t…

(a) Recall. The Public Auditor may be removed from office in the same manner as that provided by the Organic Act for the removal of I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi. In determining the number of signatures on the Petition for Recall, and in deter-mining whether enough votes are cast for rec…

[Repealed.] SOURCE: Added by P.L. 21-122:1 (July 20, 1992), entitled “Budget Approval.” Repealed and reenacted by P.L. 25- 042:7 (June 6, 1999). Repealed by P.L. 26-001:IV:1 (Mar. 7, 2001).

the Audits Prepared and Transmitted by the Public Auditor. I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi, the Committee on Rules of I Liheslatura, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Guam: (a) shall prepare corrective action plans, as contemplated by “Government Auditing Standards” promulgated…

In the event I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi, the Committee on Rules of I Liheslatura, or the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Guam: (a) fails to implement the required corrective action plan; or (b) fails to provide a satisfactory explanation as to why such recommendations have not b…

The Office of Public Accountability is responsible for the conduct of program evaluation and review of compliance by various government programs with performance standards established by I Liheslaturan Guåhan. The Public Auditor shall perform any audit of either the financial or …

The Public Auditor shall submit to I Liheslaturan Guåhan on a continuous basis recommendations with respect to altering and amending the performance standards assigned to any government of Guam program, as well as recommendations with respect to procedures for evaluation complian…

The Public Auditor shall conduct program evaluation and justification reviews and other related duties as prescribed by law. As part of these analyses the Public Auditor shall perform or contract for the performance of agency evaluation and justification reviews. The Public Audit…

“Agency” as contained in this Chapter shall mean government of Guam line agencies; autonomous or semi-autonomous, boards, bureaus and commissions. “Programs” are programs defined by law as such, under the purview of agencies. Every government agency shall be subject to a program …

I Liheslaturan Guåhan intends that the program evaluation and justification review procedure be designed to assess the efficiency, effectiveness, and long-term implications of current or alternative government policies, and that the procedure results in recommendations for the im…

The Public Auditor has the authority to conduct surprise/unannounced audits of any government of Guam agency at the Public Auditor’s discretion, and all agencies shall surrender such records as are determined necessary for the conduct of the surprise/unannounced audits. SOURCE: A…

Upon the completion of any audit done pursuant to this Act, the Public Auditor shall provide a copy of the audit to all news media on Guam, as well as publish the audit on the Internet and make the Internet address of each audit publicly known. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 25-042:14 (Ju…

(a) The Public Auditor is specifically authorized to supervise audits, or at the Public Auditor’s discretion, perform audits, of autonomous agencies and instrumentalities of the government of Guam, inclusive of, but not limited to, the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB), the Guam Economi…

(a) Timeline for Submission. No later than sixty (60) calendar days after the independent audit report for a government entity has been released by the Office of Public Accountability for each fiscal year, every director, administrator, president or head of a government of Guam a…

Procedures. The Office of Public Accountability shall at any time cause each government of Guam agency’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to be reviewed for adequacy, effectiveness, and efficiency as part of each agency’s audit scope. For purposes of this Section, SOPs are wr…

The Public Auditor of Guam shall receive and maintain Procurement Training Compliance Reports, submitted pursuant to 5 GCA § 5141(n), in an electronic portable document format. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 36-011:3 (April 9, 2021). ---------- COL 2025-08-27

The Legislature finds that the reliance upon the largesse and consideration of federal authorities for the return of lands taken by the federal government in the period after World War II has been a frustrating process which has produced poor results. Now is the time to take a co…

There is established the Guam Land Repatriation Commission, hereinafter referred to as the Commission. The Commission shall be comprised of twelve (12) members, including the Governor of Guam (or designee), the Speaker of the Guam Legislature (or designee), the Guam Delegate to C…

The goal of the Commission is to work for the return of federal properties in Guam that are deemed excess by the Commission. The Commission is empowered to pursue whatever strategies it determines will be conducive to the accomplishment of the goals set forth herein, including bu…

Returned Land. The Commission shall not possess property returned as a result of its actions, nor shall it have any authority to dispose of federally-held property returned as a result of its actions or otherwise. Lands returned by the Federal Government shall be accepted by the …

It is the policy of the government of Guam that land returned by the federal government to Guam be returned to the estates that held such property prior to the condemnations of said lands by the Federal Government. Exceptions to this policy shall be: (a) Lands clearly under exist…

Under no circumstances shall the Commission hire or contract employees for any purpose. Any staff work required for the activities of the Commission shall be performed by existing staff in either the Legislative or Executive branches of the government of Guam as detailed for that…

I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that the native inhabitants of Guam, since its recorded history, have been subjected to incessant control by external colonial powers. I Liheslaturan Guåhan further finds that upon the execution of the bilateral treaty between the two (2) sovereign nat…

(a) Self-Determination. Freedom of a people to determine the way in which they shall be governed and whether or not they shall be self-governed. (b) ‘Native Inhabitants of Guam’ shall mean those persons who became U.S. Citizens by virtue of the authority and enactment of the 1950…

[Repealed.] SOURCE: Repealed by P.L. 25-106:8.

There is established a Commission on Decolonization for the Implementation and Exercise of Guam Self-Determination for the Native Inhabitants of Guam, which shall be composed of eleven (11) members, including the Chairperson: (a) I Maga’lahen Guåhan shall serve as the Chairperson…

The general purpose of the Commission on Decolonization shall be to ascertain the intent of the Native Inhabitants of Guam as to their future political relationship with the United States of America. Once the intent of the Native Inhabitants of Guam is ascertained, the Commission…

The Commission shall create three (3) Task Forces. Each task force shall be composed of seven (7) members, appointed by the Commission, who are advocates for the status for which they are appointed. The three task forces are:(1) Independence Task Force;(2) Free Association Task F…

The three task forces shall draw upon the resources of the Commission on Decolonization, and no later than four (4) months from the date of their appointment, after conducting an extensive study, including input from the COL12302011 IMPLEMENTATION AND EXERCISE OF CHAMORRO SELF DE…

Considering that the majority of the activities of the Commission on Self-Determination have been fulfilled, the office and employees of the Commission on Self-Determination shall also serve as the office and employees of the Commission on Decolonization.

The Commission, in conjunction with the Commission’s task forces shall conduct an extensive public education program, throughout the island, based on the position papers submitted by each task force. (a) The University of Guam and the Guam Community College may be included in the…

(a) The Guam Election Commission shall conduct a ‘Political Status Plebiscite’, at which the following question, which shall be printed in both English and Chamorro, shall be asked of the eligible voters: In recognition of your right to self-determination, which of the following …

If one political status does not receive the majority votes cast in the above plebiscite, a run-off plebiscite shall be held sixty (60) days from the date thereof between the two (2) political status options receiving the highest number of votes.

The Commission on Decolonization shall have, and may exercise, the following general powers in carrying out the activities of the Commission: (a) To acquire, in any lawful manner, any property real and personal, mixed, tangible or intangible - to hold, maintain, use and operate t…

Nothing in this Act shall preclude the activities of the Commission on Self-Determination.

The Nieves Flores Memorial Library shall be the depository of all public records and materials pertaining to political status of the territory of Guam. The Commission on Decolonization and its Office shall transfer all of its official public documents upon completion of its work …

The Commission shall meet regularly on the first Tuesday of every month at 3 p.m. or more often as determined by the Chairperson of the Commission. In the absence of both the Chairperson and the Vice Chairperson from a meeting, a quorum of the members shall select an Acting Chair…

There is hereby created the Guam War Reparation Commission, hereinafter referred to as the Commission, which shall continue in effect until full and proper reparations have been made to the people of Guam by the governments of Japan and the United States of America. The Commissio…

The Commission shall be responsible for pursuing every possible avenue to achieve full and just reparation for the evils of war and the injustices of its aftermath for the people of Guam who were directly affected and their survivors. This shall include, among other things, monet…

The Commission shall have, and may exercise, the following general powers in carrying on the activities specified in this Chapter: (a) To acquire, in any lawful manner, any property, real, personal, mixed tangible or intangible, except for real estate -- to hold, maintain, use an…

The Commission shall submit a budget to the Guam Legislature for the purpose of carrying out its functions. The Committee on Rules, Government Reform and Federal Affairs is authorized to transfer to the Commission such funds from within the budget of the Guam Legislature such fun…