Spain ceded Guam to the US in 1898. Captured by the Japanese in 1941, it was retaken by the US three years later. The military installations on the island are some of the most strategically important US bases in the Pacific.
Guam is a presidential democracy. Guam is a self-governing unincorporated territory of the US.
Source: CIA World Factbook
This Act amends Chapter 75 of Title 21 GCA so as to allow residential and agricultural leaseholders are authorized to conduct small-scale cottage industry activities, in which goods and services are produced primarily within their leased residential and agricultural lots. Cottage industry activities include small-scale cultivation and farming.
Amends: Chamorro Land Trust Commission – Chapter 75 of 21 GCA “Real Property”. (2006-04-14)
This Act allows the Department of Agriculture to establish agricultural preserves, contains rules governing administration and establishment of preserves, grants authority to the Department to enter into contracts with landowners to limit the use of agricultural land for preservation purposes and provides for relief from the provisions of such contracts.The following lands may be included in an agricultural reserve: (a) land devoted to recreational use; (b) a wildlife habitat area; and (c) a submerged area.
This Act concerns repair to land owners for expropriation of their property and loss of land or adverse effects on their land caused by a Government project. Repair shall be effected by return of former properties and land exchange.
Amends: Use and Development of Government and Other Land - Chapter 68 of 21 GCA “Real Property”. (2006-04-14)
This Act provides rules relative to the establishment of liens and legal consequences of liens and related procedural requirements. It also concerns land subject to a lien and provides for administration of the Act.
This Act amends Chapter 80 of Title 21 to provide for the transfer of real property of the Guam Port Authority to the Guam Ancestral Lands Commission so that the Commission can return land parcels and properties to the original landowners or their estates.
Amends: Guam Ancestral Lands Commission - Chapter 80 of 21 GCA “Real Property”. (2006-04-14)
