Guam § 13106 - Events Causing Vacancy in the Municipal Offices of Mayor

§ 13106. Events Causing Vacancy in the Municipal Offices of Mayor

and Vice Mayor.

The municipal offices of Mayor and Vice Mayor become vacant on the

happening of any of the following events:

(a) death of the incumbent;

(b) declaration of mental incompetence by a final judgment or

final order of a court of competent jurisdiction;

(c) resignation from office;

(d) refusal or failure to assume office;

(e) the decision of a competent tribunal declaring void his or her

election;

(f) conviction of a felony, or of a crime involving moral

turpitude;

(g) his or her change of residence from the municipality in which

he or she was elected;

(h) when an incumbent is incapacitated because of illness and

unable to continue for the remainder of the term to which he or she was

elected; or

(i) when an incumbent has sought and won election to another

office and assumed the new office, constituting voluntary

relinquishment of the original office.

The occurrence of any event under (a) through (i), with respect to

a person or persons elected to office, after the election but before the

term of office is to commence, constitutes a vacancy on the date the

term commences, unless the person or persons so elected is the

incumbent, in which case, the vacancy occurs on the date of such event.