Guam § 63103 - Definitions.

§ 63103. Definitions.

(a) Commission means Guam Territorial Seashore Protection

Commission.

(b) Board means the Board of Directors of the Commission.

(c) Seashore Reserve means that land and water area of Guam

extending seaward to the ten (10) fathom contour, including all islands

within the Government's jurisdiction except Cabras Island and those

Villages wherein residences have been constructed along the shoreline prior

to the effective date of the Seashore Act, and extending inland to the nearer

of the following points:

(1) From the mean high water line for a distance on a horizontal

plane of ten (10) meters.

(2) From the mean high water line to the inland edge of the

nearest public right-of-way.

(d) Development means, on land, in or under water, the placement or

erection of any solid material or structure; discharge of disposal of any

dredged material or of any gaseous, liquid, solid, or thermal waste; grading,

removing, dredging, mining, or extraction of any materials; change in the

density or intensity of use of land, including, but not limited to, subdivision

of land and any other division of land including lot splits; change in the

intensity of use of water, ecology related thereto, or of access thereto;

construction or reconstruction, demolition, or alteration of the size of any

structure, including any facility of any private, public, or municipal utility,

and the removal of major vegetation.

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(e) Improved residential property means a detached, noncommercial

residential dwelling, the construction of which was begun before September

1, 1972, together with so much of the land on which the dwelling is

situated, the said land being in the same ownership as the dwelling, as the

Commission shall designate to be reasonably necessary for the enjoyment of

the dwelling for the sole purpose of noncommercial residential use, together

with any structures accessory to the dwelling which are situated on the land

so designated.

(f) Person includes any individual, organization, partnership, and

corporation, including any utility and any agency of federal, territorial, and

local government.

(g) Plan means the Guam Seashore Reserve Plan.

(h) Sea means the Pacific Ocean or the Philippines Sea.