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Terms Used In 4 Guam Code Ann. § 4118

  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
No employee of a department, agency or instrumentality of the government of Guam shall be appointed by a cognizant authority to serve temporarily in an acting capacity as head of a department, agency or instrumentality for a period in excess of one year.

(a) Any employee so appointed has the right to return to the position the employee held immediately before the appointment to serve in an acting capacity after the one year period is exhausted.

(b) The time limitation of this section may not be circumvented by an interruption in the appointment to an acting capacity or to the position the employee held immediately before the appointment for a period of less than thirty (30) days.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 17-081:11 (Dec. 18, 1984).

2018 NOTE: Subsection designation added pursuant to authority granted by 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.

§ 4119. Military Leaves of Absence: National Guard or
Reserves.

(a) All employees of the government of Guam who are members of the reserve components of the Department of Defense or Transportation, including, but not limited to, the United States Army, the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps,the United States Air Force, the Army National Guard, the Air National Guard and the United States Coast Guard, shall be entitled to leaves of absence from their respective duties with the government of Guam without losses of time or efficiency ratings on all days during which they are engaged in active military duty ordered or authorized under the laws of United States.

(b) Such employees shall be entitled to military leave with pay while performing such duty not to exceed fifteen (15) working days per government of Guam fiscal year, and, to the extent not used in a fiscal year, accumulates in the succeeding year until it totals fifteen (15) days at the beginning of a fiscal year. Thereafter, the officers and employees shall elect annual leave, compensatory-time accrued, or leave without pay.

(c) The provisions of this Section shall be retroactive to
October 01, 2012.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 22-054:2 (Dec. 2, 1993). Amended by P.L. 23-
041:3 (Sep. 29, 1995), P.L. 24-258:2 (Aug. 14, 1998), P.L. 31-279:3 (Dec.
31, 2012).

2016 NOTE: Subsection/subitem designations added to adhere to the Compiler’s codification and alpha-numeric schemes pursuant to authority granted by 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.