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Terms Used In 10 Guam Code Ann. § 87101

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
(a) Standards shall mean those safety and health standards, rules and regulations made applicable to the Government of Guam after enactment of

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same into local law or temporarily promulgated, modified or waived, as provided by Section 87107 of this Chapter.
(b) Agency shall mean the Government of Guam or any department, agency, autonomous agency, Authority, Branch or instrumentality thereof.
(c) Department shall mean the Department of Labor within the
Government of Guam.

(d) Director shall mean the Chief Officer of the Department.

(e) Division shall mean the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Labor.

(f) Administrator shall mean the Chief Officer of the Division. (g) Safety Inspector shall mean an inspector of the Division.
(h) Safety Officer shall mean an employee designated by the
Administrator to be responsible for the safety program of an agency.

(i) Safety Review Board shall mean the five-member Board which shall hear agency appeals from citations issued by the Division.
(j) 30-day citation shall mean the written citation issued by the
Administrator to an agency.

(k) Standing citation shall mean the written citation issued by the Administrator to an agency after hearing and concurrence by the Safety Review Board.
(l) Effective date shall mean ninety (90) days after this Chapter becomes law.
SOURCE: Added by P.L. 19-19:2. (Effective August 22, 1988)

§ 87102. Division of Inter-governmental Occupational Safety and
Health Created.

There is within the Government of Guam the Division of Occupational Safety and Health which shall be administratively attached to the Department of Labor. Administratively attached shall mean that the Director will have overall authority over the Division’s budget, and that concurrence of the Director must be obtained by the Administrator in hiring employees of the Division. The Director shall have no authority or jurisdiction and shall exercise no control over the Administrator or the Division with respect to Sections 87104, 87105, 87106, 87107, 87109, 87110, 87111, 87112,

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87113, 87114, 87115, 87116, 87121, 87123, 87124 and 87127 of this
Chapter.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 19-19:2.

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