Definitions. — Guam Code § 6103

§ 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.

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