(a) The month of April of each year shall be known as “”Guam Youth Month.”” The Governor of Guam annually shall issue a proclamation calling upon the people of Guam to observe Guam Youth Week within Guam Youth Month with appropriate ceremonies and festivities expressive of the public sentiment befitting the occasion for the week-long observance.

(b) The Guam Youth Week shall be under the direct supervision of the Department of Youth Affairs in cooperation with school officials, private and public.

(c) Funds for the operation of the Guam Youth Week activities shall be provided for by the annual appropriation to the Department of Youth Affairs. The Department of Youth Affairs shall report to the Legislature on expenditure of all funds for Guam Youth Month activities. The report shall contain detailed information on each expenditure including the date of expenditure, the amount and the purpose. The report shall be submitted no later than July 31 annually.

(d) The Guam Youth Week events and activities shall be planned by the Central Planning Committee subject to final approval by the Director of the Department of Youth Affairs.

(e) The Central Planning Committee shall be composed of student representatives from all private and public, junior and senior high schools on Guam, the Guam Community College, the University of Guam and any recognized youth entity.

(f) The student body officers of the senior high school chairing the Central Planning Committee shall serve as theExecutive Committee, such that the President of said student body government shall be the Chairman of the Central Planning Committee, the Vice-President of said student body government shall be the Vice-Chairman of the Central Planning Committee and the Secretary of said student body government shall be the Secretary of the Central Planning Committee.

(g) A different senior high school shall head the Central
Planning Committee each year on a rotating basis.

(h) Clerical, technical and logistics support for Youth Week activities shall be provided for by the Department of Youth Affairs.

(i) The Department of Youth Affairs shall appoint an employee as a Youth Month Coordinator as an additional duty to advise and assist with the planning and preparation of Youth Week events and activities as designated by the Central Planning Committee.

SOURCE: GC § 224, as amended by P.L. 14-014 and P.L. 15-014;
repealed and reenacted by P.L. 15-064.

COMPILER’S COMMENT: This Section incorporates the administrative provisions of P.L. 14-014, and has designated the new Department of Youth Affiars as the logical oversight body, but permits the Govenror to designate any other appropriate oversight body as he deems fit.

This new Section makes future “”administrative provisions”” unnecessary. This Section contains all such provisions as are necessary for the annual conduct of Youth week, which, like the Island Fair, has expanded over the years from one day to a week’s worth of activities.

NOTE: Prior print publications of this section included the following note from the Compiler of Laws:

COMMENT: The Section as enacted by P.L. 15-64 is included in this Title as the last clear enactment by the Legislature on this subject. Technically, the Legislature repealed P.L. 15-64 with the adoption of Title 1, Guam Code Annotated. However, because this section was not specifically considered by the Legislature, and represents the law as it existed prior to P.L. 15-104 (this Title), this Compiler believes that the Legislature fully intended to continue the provisions of P.L. 15-64. There is no visible intent that the Legislature intended to revert to a section it had only recently repealed.

“”When a valid and operative provision is omitted from a Code through oversight, however, it may be held to continue in effect, even in the face of a provision in the Code declaring all prior laws repealed.”” Norris vs McDaniel 207 Ga. 232, 60 SE.2d 329 (1950).