Prohibited Activity

Section 5103, Title 4, Guam Code Annotated, states that, “(a) An employee shall not use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election. (b) An employee shall not participate in activity in connection with political management of a political campaign, except as permitted by Sec. 5102. Specific activities in which employees are prohibited from participating include but are not limited to:
  1. Serving as an officer of a political party, a member of a committee of a political party, an officer or member of a committee of a partisan political organization or being a nominee for such positions;

  2. Organizing or reorganizing a political party, partisan political organization or committee thereof;

  3. Soliciting, collecting, handling, disbursing or accounting for assessments, contributions or other funds for a political party, partisan political organization or candidate;

  4. Organizing, selling tickets to, seeking support for or actively participating in a fund-raising activity of a political party, partisan political organization or candidate;

  5. Taking an active part in managing the political campaign of a candidate;

  6. Being a candidate;

  7. Taking an active part in an organized solicitation of votes in support of or in opposition to a candidate, including distributing campaign literature, badges or buttons;

  8. Acting as recorder, watcher, challenger or similar officer at the polls on behalf of a political party, partisan political organization or candidate;

  9. Driving voters to the polls on behalf of a political party, partisan political organization or candidate;

  10. Endorsing or opposing a candidate in a political advertisement, a broadcast, campaign literature, a letter or article in a newspaper (signed or unsigned), or similar material;

  11. Serving as a delegate, alternate or proxy to a political party convention;

  12. Addressing a convention caucus, rally or similar gathering of a political party in support of or in opposition to a candidate or on a partisan political questions;

  13. Initiating or circulating a nominating petition for a candidate;

  14. Discharging, promoting, demoting, or changing the compensation of any other employee or promising or threatening to do so, because said other employee advocates or fails to advocate through contribution, voting or other wise, a candidate; and

  15. Using government travel allowances, government transportation, government supplies or government facilities for the benefit of any political party, partisan political organization or candidate.”
Section 5106, Title 4, Guam Code Annotated, states that, “No person, whether or not an employee, shall solicit or receive a contribution or distribute literature for any political purpose in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by any person employed by the Executive, Legislative or Judicial Branches of the Government of Guam. For purposes of this Section, soliciting a contribution includes solicitation by letter or circular addressed to and delivered to an employee in said room or building. Any person who violated this Section is guilty of a misdemeanor.”

Section 6104, Title 3, Guam Code Annotated, states that, “No person shall sit in the Legislature of Guam nor be eligible to be a candidate for election to that office who holds an office, position or appointment in the Government of Guam requiring the advise and consent to, or confirmation of, the Legislature.”

Section 6107, Title 3, Guam Code Annotated, states that, “(a) No person shall be eligible for more than one (1) office to be filled in the same election, and may not file notice of candidacy for more than one (1) office. The term “election” as used in this Section includes a general and a local election held on the same date so as to prohibit a person running for office in a local election and in a general election at the same time. (b) No person shall be eligible for an office to be filled in an election if sixty (60) days prior to the primary he is holding another elected office, the term of which will not expire on or prior to the date of commencement of the term of office for which he is running.”