(a) Employee means a person employed in the Execu- tive Branch of the government of Guam, including autono- mous and semi-autonomous agencies thereof, or in the Judicial Branch with the following exceptions:
(1) A person holding elective office;
(2) A special or Staff Assistant to the Governor;
(3) A person appointed by the Governor with the consent of the Legislature;

(4) A person retained from time to time to perform professional or special services for a specific fee; and
(5) A person working on a casual basis on the days he performs no services.
Employees includes a person on administrative annual, or sick-leave unless such person has resigned and has received a lump-sum payment for such leave. Subject to (5) above, it includes persons not providing professional services for a specific fee who are hired on a temporary, part-time, emergency or casual basis;
(b) Election means any local, primary, general or special election;
(c) Activity means the independent action of an employee, the action of an employee in open or secret cooperation with others and the indirect action of an employee through an agent. Activity does not mean theindependent action of the husband or wife of an employee, upon his or her own initiative and in his or her own behalf;
(d) Political Party means a national political party, a territorial political party and an affiliated organization;

(e) Partisan and non-partisan when used as adjectives refer to political parties; and
(f) Candidate means: (1) [repealed]
(2) a candidate for an office in a political party.
SOURCE: GC § 3300, as added by P.L. 12-223 (Feb. 1, 1975).

2020 NOTE: Past publications of the GCA included the following language in subsection (f)(1): “”an individual as defined in 3 Guam Code Ann. § 8101, Subsection (b); and.”” However, 3 Guam Code Ann. § 8101 was repealed by P.L. 18-
030:53 (Feb. 19, 1986). In light of the repeal of 3 Guam Code Ann. § 8101, this language was removed from subsection (f)(1) to avoid confusion.

Furthermore, due to the repeal and reenactment of the Guam Election Code by P.L. 31-255 (Dec. 11, 2012), other definitions of “”Candidate”” are now found in 3 Guam Code Ann. § 1115 and 3 Guam Code Ann. § 17101.

2012 NOTE: P.L. 18-30:53 (Feb. 19, 1986) repealed 3 Guam Code Ann. §§ 8101,
8102 and 8104-8116. Title 3 Guam Code Ann. § 8103 was subsequently repealed by P.L. 27-108:2 (Oct. 27, 2004). Two separate definitions for “”Candidate”” exist in 3 Guam Code Ann. §§ 1114 and 19101 (c).