Title 48, Territories and Insular PossessionsRelease 119-102
§1425a Legislative Authority to Create Authorities; Appointment of Members; Powers of Authorities
Title 48 › CHAPTER 8A — GUAM › SUBCHAPTER V — PUBLIC HOUSING AND URBAN RENEWAL › § 1425a
Summary
Guam's Legislature can set up or give a public authority power to carry out urban renewal and housing. It decides the authority's appointments, terms, removals, and powers. The authority may accept federal aid and do what is needed for it, including planning or zoning, but it cannot tax or promise Guam will repay any loan.
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Title 48, §1425a
Territories and Insular Possessions, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The Legislature of Guam may by law grant to a public corporate authority, existing or to be created by or under such law, powers to undertake urban renewal and housing activities in Guam. Such legislature may by law provide for the appointment, terms of office, or removal of the members of such authority and for the powers of such authority, including authority to accept whatever benefits the Federal Government may make available, and to do all things, to exercise any and all powers, and to assume and fulfill any and all obligations, duties, responsibilities, and requirements, including but not limited to those relating to planning or zoning, necessary or desirable for receiving such Federal assistance, except that such authority shall not be given any power of taxation, nor any power to pledge the faith and credit of the territory of Guam for any loan whatever.
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Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Organic Act of Guam which comprises this chapter.
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48 U.S.C. § 1425a
Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102