Guam § 69106 - Acceptance of Prior Record of Title.

§ 69106. Acceptance of Prior Record of Title.

(a) Upon application for registration of a vessel previously

registered outside Guam, the Guam Police Department shall

grant full faith and credit to the currently valid certificate of title

describing such vessel, the ownership thereof and liens noted

thereon, issued by the jurisdiction in which the vehicle was last

registered.

(b) Acceptance by the Guam Police Department of a

certificate of title issued by another jurisdiction as provided in

Subsection (a) of this Section, in the absence of knowledge by

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the Department that any such certificate is forged, fraudulent or

void, shall be a sufficient determination of genuineness and

regularity of such certificate and of the truth of the recitals

therein, and no liability shall be incurred by any officer or

employee of the Department by reason of so accepting any such

certificate of title.

(c) In the event a certificate of title issued by another

jurisdiction shows any lien or encumbrance upon the vessel, then

the Guam Police Department upon registering such vessel in

Guam and upon issuing a certificate of ownership, shall include

therein the name of such lienholder as legal owner unless

documents submitted with the foreign certificate of title establish

that the lien and encumbrance have been fully satisfied.

(d) In the event application is made in Guam for registration

of a vessel of another jurisdiction which issues only a number

and does not issue a certificate of ownership or its equivalent and

in the event the Guam Police Department is not satisfied after the

owner of the vessel of the existence of foreign liens thereon, then

the Department may issue a certificate of number but shall

withhold issuance of a Guam certificate of ownership until the

applicant shall present such documents as to reasonably satisfy

the Department of the applicant's ownership of the vessel.

(e) In the event the Guam Police Department refuses to

grant an application for registration in Guam of the vessel

previously registered in another jurisdiction, the Department

shall immediately return to the applicant all documents

submitted by the applicant with such application.