§ 16100 Preamble
§ 16101 Establishment
§ 16102 Purpose
§ 16103 Prohibition Against Discrimination
§ 16104 Board of Regents
§ 16104.1 Duties of the Board of Regents
§ 16104.2 Meetings
§ 16104.3 Term of Office
§ 16104.4 Qualifications of Members of the Board of Regents
§ 16104.5 Regent Nominating Council; Establishment
§ 16104.6 Student Regent
§ 16104.7 Tenure of Members Currently Serving as Regents
§ 16104.8 Naming of Buildings and Facilities
§ 16105 Board Members Not Deemed Officers or Employees of the Government of Guam
§ 16106 Removal From Office
§ 16107 Officers
§ 16108 President, Academic Officers, and Faculty of the\r\nUniversity
§ 16109 Powers
§ 16110 President of the University
§ 16111 Construction With Other Laws
§ 16112 Personnel Rules: Academic Personnel
§ 16113 Classified Employees
§ 16114 Attorney
§ 16115 Retirement Fund
§ 16116 Workers\’ Compensation Fund
§ 16117 Present Employees of University of Guam
§ 16118 Legislative Appropriation
§ 16119 Health and Physical Education Complex: Authori- zation to Borrow
§ 16120 Same: Legislative Appropriations
§ 16121 Transfer of Property
§ 16122 Restrictions on Alienation
§ 16123 University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability
§ 16124 University of Guam Sea Grant Special Fund
§ 16125 Residents of the CNMI, the FSM, the Republic of Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands; Advanced Placement Program; Residents of Guam Fifty-five (55) Years of Age or Older
§ 16126 University of Guam Land Grant Endowment Fund
§ 16127 Assent to Provisions of Hatch and McIntire-Stennis\r\nActs; Administration by University of Guam
§ 16128 Assent to Smith-Lever Act Relative to Extension\r\nServices; Administration by the University of Guam
§ 16130 Amendments to This Charter of the University of\r\nGuam
§ 16131 Studies to be Public
§ 16134 Temporary Debt Relief
§ 16135 Garnishment of Income Tax Refunds in the Event of a Default on Payment of Tuition and Fees
§ 16136 Student Employees
§ 16137 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental\r\nProgramme
§ 16138 Short Term Borrowing
§ 16139 Long Term Leasing and Contracting
§ 16140 Menstrual Hygiene Products at the University of\r\nGuam and Guam Community College
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Terms Used In Guam Code > Title 17 > Chapter 16 - Charter Chapter 16a: Joint Educational Board Meetings

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • 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.
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • 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.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.