Definitions. — Guam Code § 62105
Guam Code § 62105 — Definitions.. Reproduced from the official Guam Code Annotated, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 62105. Definitions.
The following words and phrases, when used herein, shall
have the meaning respectively hereto ascribed to them, except
where a different meaning may be clearly indicated by the context:
(a) Agricultural Subdivision shall mean a subdivision having
no lots, parcels or sites smaller than ten thousand (10,000) square
feet, except when located on top of the Northern Aquifer, the
minimum ten thousand (10,000) square foot lot must be connected
to a public or other EPA-approved sewer system, and in which all
lots, parcels or sites are used principally for agriculture, single
family resident sites or as an agriculture-homesite combination;
except that the term Agricultural Subdivision shall include a
subdivision resulting from distribution by the court pursuant to §
62104(a) or (b) of this Chapter with no lots, parcels or sites smaller
than ten thousand (10,000) square feet, with sewer connection or
other EPA-certified sewage disposal only if located over the
Northern Aquifer, and in which all lots, parcels or sites are used
principally for agriculture, single family sites, or as an agricultural
homestead combination
(b) Commission shall mean the Guam Land Use Commis-
sion.
(c) Easement shall mean a grant by the owner of land for a
specified use or uses of said land to a person or persons, to the
public generally, or to the government of Guam.
(d) Engineer shall mean a person who is registered pursuant
to Title XLIII, Government Code of Guam, as an Engineer, and
holds a current certificate of registration issued by the Board of
Engineering and Architectural Examiners or a person exempted
under the provisions of said Title XLIII.
(e) Improvements shall mean any beneficial or valuable site
additions or alterations to a subdivision property including street
grading and surfacing, water service, sanitary sewers, facilities
provided for drainage and site grading.
(f) Non-Access Reservation shall mean the limiting of access
between a right-of-way and the adjacent land. (A non-access
reservation shall be provided only when required by the
Commission and the right of access to and from such land across
the right-of-way boundary shall be dedicated to the government
of Guam.)
(g) Plan, General shall mean the general plan or plans for
guiding the physical development of Guam as adopted by the
Commission and approved by the Governor.
(h) Plan, Precise shall mean the detailed plan or plans for
guiding and controlling the physical development of specific
projects as adopted by the Commission and approved by the
Governor.
(i) Planning Division shall mean the Planning Division of the
Department of Land Management.
(j) Record Map shall mean the final subdivision map
designed to be placed on record in the Land Records of the
Department of Land Management.
(k) Reservation shall mean an area of land which the
subdivider reserves free and clear of all structures for a future
specified purpose.
(l) Resubdivision shall mean the resubdividing of land in a
subdivision or lot parcelling subdivision or portions thereof so as
to create a new or different subdivision of such land other than is
presently or record, and shall include modifications to lot lines,
the creation of one or more additional lots or any other action of
land division which is not consistent with the recorded subdivision
or lot parcelling subdivision map.
(m) Reversion to Acreage shall mean the voiding of a
previous subdivision in order to revert the platted lots contained
therein back to the original parcel or parcels which existed prior
to the subdivision.
(n) Right-of-Way shall include the entire width between
property lines of a highway, street or alley.
(o) Sanitation Division shall mean the Sanitation Division of
the Department of Public Health and Social Services.
(p) Subdivide shall mean the act of creating a subdivision.
(q) Subdivider shall mean any individual, firm, association,
syndicate, corporation, trust or any other legal entity proceeding
to effect a subdivision of land for himself or another.
(r) Subdivision shall mean the division of any parcel of land
into six (6) or more lots. Subdivision shall include resubdivision
and reversion to acreage and, where appropriate to context, relates
to the process of subdividing or to the land subdivided regardless
of the method used to accomplish such action, whether by sale,
design, rent, lease, deed of gift, grant in gift or any other method
of transferring title whether for renumeration or not and whether
immediate or future.
(s) Subdivision, Lot Parcelling shall mean the division of a
lot legally existing on the effect date of this Chapter into no more
than five (5) parcels. Lot parcelling of a lot shall include all
methods of such action whether by sale, design, rent, lease, deed
of gift, grant in gift or any other method of transferring title
whether for renumeration or not and whether immediate or future.
(t) Surveyor shall mean a person who is registered pursuant
to Title XLIII, Government Code of Guam, as a land surveyor,
and holds a current certificate of registration issued by the Board
of Engineering and Architectural Examiners or a person exempted
under the provisions of said Title XLIII.
(u) Tentative Map shall mean a preliminary subdivision map
of the purpose of showing the design of a proposed subdivision
and the existing conditions in and around it.
(v) Guam Planner shall mean the Chief of Planning Division,
Department of Land Management, Government of Guam.
(w) Guam Surveyor shall mean the person designated as the
Guam Surveyor by the Director of Land Management.
Source: official Guam text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Guam Code Annotated § 62105
- Jurisdiction: Guam
- Code: Guam Code Annotated
- Subject: Definitions.
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