48 U.S.C. § 1421g — Establishment and maintenance of public bodies and offices

(a) Public health services. Subject to Guam law, the Governor must establish, maintain, and operate public-health services, including hospitals, dispensaries, and quarantine stations, where needed, and issue quarantine and sanitation rules protecting Guam from imported and spreading disease.

(b) Public educational system. Guam's government must provide an adequate public-education system and establish, maintain, and operate public schools under Guam law.

(c) Public Prosecutor; Public Auditor. Guam may create these offices by law. Their officers may be removed as Guam law provides.

(d) Attorney General. (1) Guam's Attorney General is its chief legal officer. When the office next becomes vacant, the Governor appoints the Attorney General with the legislature's advice and consent; the Attorney General serves at the Governor's pleasure. (2) Instead, the legislature may provide by law for election of the Attorney General by qualified Guam voters in general elections after 1998 when the Governor is elected. An elected Attorney General serves four years. The people may recall the Attorney General under section 1422d, or the legislature may provide removal for cause. A vacancy is filled by the Governor if it occurs less than six months before a general election, or by a special election held at least three months after the vacancy and no later than six months before the next general election; the Governor appoints someone pending that special election.