Guam § 6103 - Definitions.
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§ 6103. Definitions.
As used in this Chapter, the following words and phrases
shall have the meaning stated herein, unless such meaning is
clearly inapplicable in the context:
(a) Government of Guam shall include all agencies,
departments, instrumentalities, public corporations, and all
other entities of the government, no matter how designated,
and whether or not such agencies may sue or be sued in
their own name.
(b) Chief Claims Officer means the Attorney General
of Guam, and for the autonomous agencies the Attorney
General shall designate as claims officers those persons so
designated by the Board of such agency, or by its chief
executive officer if there be no Board.
(c) Line Agency means any department, agency, or
instrumentality of the Government of Guam which is
funded by an annual appropriation from the Legislature.
Such appropriations do not include subsidies.
(d) Autonomous agency means any department,
agency, or instrumentality which generates, or is intended to
generate, as evidenced in law, all of its own operating
revenues apart from annual appropriations from the General
Fund. Annual appropriations do not include amounts
appropriated to line agencies to pay for services rendered by
autonomous agencies. Subsidies appropriated from the
General Fund to an autonomous agency, whether or not
annually appropriated, shall not mean that an autonomous
agency becomes a line agency for purposes of this Chapter.
(e) House Patient means a patient who presents
themselves to Guam Memorial Hospital who does not have
a private practitioner or who does not request and/or is
unable to identify an accepting practitioner. For the
purposes of the Government Claims Act and for Agent for
Hospital Reimbursement, ‘House Patient’ designation is
given to the care provided by agents of the hospital.
COL6/24/2021
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