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AS ELECTION SEASON HEATS UP, movements in voters’ senatorial pref-erences are evident on survey results as seen on the latest Social Weather Station (SWS) and Pulse Asia surveys, which showed JV Ejercito Estrada as one of the biggest gainers with his giant leaps of potential vote percentage from 30 percent to 49.9 percent.

The latest SWS survey conducted last August 24 to 27 indicated Ejercito Estrada’s considerable leap from 8th to 4th place, sur-passing incumbent senators Gringo Honasan and Sonny Trillanes with a 43 percent voting for rate.

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SWS surveys show JV is biggest gainer

By GERRY L. GORITPhoto-journalist

“I HAVE NOT DECIDED YET.”

These were the words of Ms. Candy Darimbang regarding her position whether to run for Con-gress in the first district of Cagayan de Oro as an independent candidate or run for the city council under the Liberal Party in the 2013 elections.

In an interview with this reporter, Darimbang said she will consult first

BRUNEI Darussalam, one of the world’s largest producers of liquefied natural gas is studying whether it can put up a 300 megawatt (MW) lique-fied natural gas-fired power plant in Mindanao, a Cabinet official on Tuesday said.

Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almen-dras said they offered the PHIVIDEC Industrial Estate in Misamis Oriental as the ideal site for an LNG power plant to Brunei, which can be its first LNG power generation facility in the Asean region.

The Energy secretary said he was able to convince the Brunei Energy Minister during the recently concluded Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation to visit the Philip-pines and look at the possibility of investing in an LNG power plant.

Almendras said he is “not sure which of Brunei’s government owned corpora-

tions” will put up the LNG facility. Brunei National Petroleum Company Sendirian Berhad also known as PetroleumBRUNEI is Brunei’s National Oil Company incor-porated in 2002.

PetroleumBRUNEI is wholly-owned by the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam.

The Brunei government also owns a 50 percent stake in Brunei LNG Sdn Bhd while the remaining 25 percent is owned by Shell Overseas Holdings Limited, a company in the Royal Dutch Shell and Mitsubishi Corp. Brunei LNG operates an LNG plant in Lumut, Brunei.

“They are looking at investing in natgas facilities even for Mindanao...I proposed to them power generation projects for Mindanao. I hope that we can interest them into a natgas power generation for Mindanao,” Almendras said.

Almendras said Brunei can utilize the Floating, Storage and Regasification

GOVERNOR Mamintal “Bombit” Adiong of Lanao del Sur leads the 2012 HAJJ Vaccination, an activity where over 2500 people have benefited. At right is First Lady Raifah Rakiin Adi-ong (standing) with IPHO physicians. The vaccination, held at the provincial capitol gym in Marawi City on September 18, 2012, is a joint undertaking of provincial government of Lanao del Sur, National Commission of Muslim-Filipino, Bureau of Quarantine, and International Provincial Health Organization. Photo by Sonny Sudaria

Darimbang soon to announce candidacy

Ms. Candy Darimbang shows the membership form for the Liberal Party. Darimbang said she still has to decide whether to run for the city council as an LP candidate or run for Congress in the first district of the city as an independent candidate.Photo by Gerry L. Gorit

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vey conducted last August 31 to September 7 showed JV tied to Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano in 3rd place.

From the San Juan City solon’s 7th rank or 30 per-cent voting for rate last July’s poll, JV’s voting rate increased significantly to 49.9 percent.

“I am grateful for the sustained and increasing public support. Along with the Estrada name, I consider my good showing as the people’s recognition of our efforts and achievements in San Juan,” Ejercito Estrada said in a statement.

JV initially announced his senatorial bid last August 31, during the

PARTY LIST Rep. Teddy Casiño yesterday called on the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to im-mediately suspend the over-priced Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Manage-ment Corporation (PSALM) charges worth P9.1 billion it “overcharged” Meralco customers.

At least 90 electric coop-eratives have also issued a statement that at least P4.5 billion was overcharged by the PSALM.

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At the sidelines of the ERC budget hearings yes-terday Chairperson Zenaida Cruz-Ducut assured Rep. Casiño that indeed there would a refund but they are still working on the com-putation and mechanism for the refund. Ducut has also not set a time frame for the refund.

“All in all this is a very big amount at P13.6 bil-lion and the ERC should immediately suspend these PSALM charges and refund it to consumers. Ang tagal na pala itong nangyayari at sobra-sobra ang sinisingil sa atin, dapat itigil agad ito at ibalik sa mga consumers,” said the progressive solon.

The P13.6 billion covers the period from July 2008 to May 2012.

The amount involved “line loss components” of line rentals which PSALM included in its transition supply contract (TSC) with Meralco and electric coop-eratives.

If approved by the ERC, the refund will mean a sig-nificant reduction in the electric bill of Meralco and the electric cooperatives’ roughly 10 million cus-tomers.

“The refund would be a definite and immediate relief for us consumers con-sidering that we have been reeling from so many power rate hikes. It is about time that consumers have a break from so many burdens,” he added.

“We hope that our pro-posed action on this issue would be immediate and ERC should work double for the refund,” ended Casiño.

Gainer...from page 1

San Juan City’s celebra-tion of Pinaglabanan Day.

He confirmed his candi-dacy last September 13 to the delegates of the Philippine Councilors League Conven-tion in Zamboanga City.

With the latest survey also baring the strong show-ing of candidates of United Nationalist Alliance, JV said he is optimistic that the UNA slate will be the team to beat.

Recent surveys have shown at least eight can-didates from UNA might get into the winning circle, along with three from Na-cionalista Party (NP), one from Laban ng Demokra-tikong Pilipino (LDP), and one from Partido Demokra-tikong Pilipino and whose political parties are aligned with the administration’s Liberal Party.

The lawmaker said: “With barely eight months left before elections, for sure there will come more movements in ranking. I am confident that UNA’s candidates will remain to be the ones to beat.”

Darimbang...from page 1

with her support group which of the two posts they prefer.

She said the governor of Misamis Oriental has offered to include her in the slate of the Liberal Party for the city council.

In the last election,

Plant...from page 1

Unit to supply LNG to its natural gas power plant in Mindanao.

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Democracy...from page 4

and hamletting of com-munities, it could not stem the rising tide of the broad anti-dictatorship movement. The alternative press also flourished amid threats of raids and closure.

In this sense, it was also the best times for democ-racy as workers launched strikes to fight for their rights and benefits, stu-dents declared a boycott of classes to push for their democratic rights, the urban poor erected barricades to resist demolition, peasants converged in town plazas as part of their struggle for land reform and the people poured out into the streets to have their voices heard, to fight for their rights, and to challenge the dictatorship, despite knowing fully well that these protest actions would be met by violent dispersals by the security forces of the Marcos dic-tatorship.

By the time the Marcos dictatorship was about to end, the Filipino people had their own alternative, inde-pendent media outlets, the students had their councils and organizations, the work-ers had their unions and were able to boldly launch strikes, the urban poor and the peasants had their orga-nizations, the people were able to conduct rallies and other forms of protest ac-tions. Even political detain-ees had their organization and forms of protest. All of these were the products of the people’s struggles.

Thus, when the Marcos dictatorship was ousted and Cory Aquino took over the reins of government, all she had to do was to formally recognize these rights, re-lease political prisoners, and allow the traditional political parties to exist and compete in elections for local and national posts, as well as for positions in Congress.

Essentially, it is not Cory Aquino who restored democratic rights, it is the people who fought for it. The elections and Congress her administration restored did not really benefit the people but the elite in power.

However, human rights

violations did not stop. In fact, extrajudicial killings of political activists contin-ued and the Cory Aquino administration registered the highest number of en-forced disappearances in the country’s history. The Cory Aquino administra-tion was also criticized lo-cally and internationally because of the proliferation of paramilitary and vigilante groups resulting in brazen rights violations and forced evacuations of communities.

These violations contin-ued within the context of the Aquino administration pursuing the same neo-liberal economic program being implemented by the Marcos dictatorship, and the failure of the Aquino administration’s land reform program.

This would also explain why human rights violations continue up to the present and why the succeeding ad-ministrations after Martial Law, instead of working to expand the enjoyment of the people of their rights, have been trying to constrict it, such as the “no permit, no rally” rule, the assumption of jurisdiction of strikes by the labor department, the filing of trumped up, absurd cases against leaders of people’s organizations and political activist, the justification of warrantless arrests, the harassments and other rights violations, the hamletting of peasant com-munities, among others.

This also shows the need for the people to continue defending their rights and fighting for genuine freedom and democracy.

Martial Law may have been ousted 26 years ago. But the economic, social, and political crisis that gave rise to it is continuing and even getting worse. This is why some have the mistaken notion that times were better under Martial Law as prices of basic commodities and services were lower then.

The fact that prices have skyrocketed since then and consequently, poverty has worsened, do not prove that we were better off under the Marcos dictatorship; it is an indication that while the form of rule may have changed, the essential pro-grams, policies, and laws

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Darimbang ran for Congress in the first district but the 27,000 votes she garnered was lower than the 31,000 of eventual winner Benjo Benaldo while the son of former congressman Klarex Uy placed third with about 20,000 votes. There were 135,000 registered voters back then. Next year there is an estimated 150,000 registered voters.

The Liberal Party is expected to field another candidate for the first con-gressional district.

Darimbang said the LP has given her a candidate’s profile to be submitted be-fore the filing of certificates of candidacy scheduled from October 1 to 5.

She, however, said that she has already submitted her membership form for the LP but has yet to take her oath of allegiance.

“We still have two weeks for final decision,” she said as to whether she will run independently for Congress or as candidate of the LP for the city council.

Meanwhile, Darimbang thanks City Mayor Vicente Y. Emano for mentioning her name in his radio pro-gram.

She said Emano, the head of the ruling Padayon Pilipino party, has been mentioning her name for the past three weeks now, and that she is thankful for the faith, trust and respect the mayor has for whatever decision she will make.

“My decision will be based on the clamor of my support group,” she added.

Darimbang said if the decision is to run indepen-dently then she will file her candidacy on October 1 or 2, but if she runs for the city council then she will join the other LP candidates in filing.

The other expected can-didates for the first congres-sional district are incumbent Benjo Benaldo, incumbent Vice Mayor Caesar Ian Ace-nas and incumbent city councilor Alvin Calingin.

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Maj. Gen. Ricardo Rain-ier Cruz, III, commander of the Army’s 1st Infan-try Division, said William Barbona, 48, died on the on the spot. The incident took place around 5 a.m. Sunday in Sitio Mahayahay, Barangay Balas, Labason, Zamboanga del Norte.

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TOYOTA MOTOR PHIL-IPPINES (TMP) improves its ever reliable Fortuner and Hilux models in Sep-tember. With new engine specifications and interior entertainment improve-ments, both the Fortuner and Hilux prove to be a more road-worthy vehicle.

Toyota aims to strength-en its SUV and Pick-up segment through its glob-ally known International Innovative Multipurpose Vehicle (IMV) line-up.

The improved Fortuner and Hilux will feature the advanced Variable Nozzle Turbocharger (VNT) Tech-nology with intercooler which aims to improve fuel efficiency and produce additional engine power by 40% and increased torque by 30%.

A variable nozzle vane has been incorporated on the circumference of the turbine to adjust the flow speed and pressure of the exhaust with the intention to improve fuel economy.

Accordingly, the bal-ance between the exhaust back pressure and boost pressure based on the en-gine demand has been

THE word Vios was derived from the latin word “vio” meaning to “move forward”. Living up to its name, Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) presents 3 (three) more exciting variants for the country’s best-selling vehicle.

Proudly made in Toyota’s Santa Rosa Plant, the locally-manufactured Vios is considered to be one of the best in the world.

Th is vehicle exemplifi es the four key strengths of the Toyota Sure Advantage namely; Quality, Reliability, Great Value, Pioneering Technologies and Worry-free Ownership. With exterior upgrades and more features to off er, TMP introduces the Vios TRD, 1.3G Manual and J lim-ited as new variants of the Vios line-up.

First, TMP is set to introduce the

sporty TRD edition to its Vios line-up. Th e new Vios TRD is available in 1.5-li-ter fuel-effi cient VVT-i engine. For a more fun to drive experience, exclusive features for this grade include 17” alloy wheels, muffl er cutter, rear lip spoiler, side skirts and a special “TRD” badge for a sportier look. Th e Vios TRD is off ered at P 865,000 and is available in exciting colors such as Gray Metallic, White Pearl, Xtreme Black and Cosmo Red that give the vehicle a youthful and vibrant twist.

Also introducing the Vios 1.3G Manual variant which off ers fog lamps and stylish 15” alloy wheels of a 1.5 variant. Th is new 1.3G Manual variant is priced at P708, 000. A new limited 1.3 J variant is now also available with

specifi cation upgrades such as foglamps, 15” alloy wheels and a special “limited” badge. Th e 1.3J Limited is priced at an aff ordable P627, 000. Both these new variants provide the same value for money matched with an upscale look as of a high grade variant.

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Republic of the PhilippinesFOURTH SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT

Fourth Shari’a Judicial District Iligan City

IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-073AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE OF SPOUSES JULIUS B. VIZCAYNO and DELIA T. QUIRANTE-VIZCAYNO,

JULIUS B. VIZCAYNO and DELIA T. QUIRANTE-VIZCAYNO, Petitioners.x-------------------------------------------------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is a verified Joint Petition for approval and registration of die divorce between herein spouses JULIUS B. VIZCAYNO and DELIA T. QUIRANIE-VIZCAYNO and alleging among others; That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, both Muslim converts and residents of Dr. 6. Falang Apt., San Jose Subd., Mahayahay, Iligan City and at Cebu City respectively, their marriage was performed under Civil rite April 2, 1977 at San Fernando, Cebu they converted to Islam faith of which conversions to Islam were registered with this Court; That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested in compatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioner and respondent and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated in the early part of 2000 they decided to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation; since their separation in the early part of 2000 or for over twelve (12) years now, they had never been communicating or sup-porting either financially or emotionally to each other; neither minding each other’s affairs; petitioner and respondent seek judicial decree of divorce thereby severing their marriage bond on April 2,1977 so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them is no longer a remedy, as all efforts necessary for possible reconciliation had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this Joint Petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hear-ing of this case on September 25, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for the three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, thiis 5th day of September, 2012.

HON. OSOP M. ALI Presiding Judge

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Republic of the Philippines FOURTH SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT

Fourth Shari’a Judicial DistrictIligan City

IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-074AM) REGISTER THE DIVORCE OF SPOUSES DENNIS A. RAMIREZ AND LOVELLAMAE T. KWONG,

DENNIS A. RAMIREZ AND LOVELLAMAE T. KWONG. Petitioners.x---------------------------------------------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is a verified Joint Petition for approval and registration of the divorce between herein spouses DENNIS A. RAMIREZ and LOVELLAMAE T. KWONG, and alleging among others; That petitioners are husband and wife respectively, both Muslim converts and residents of Tipanoy, Iligan City and Lumbia Airport, Cagayan de Oro City respectively, their marriage was performed under Civil rite on December 21, 2000 at Cagayan de Oro City, their converted to Islam faith, of which conversions to Islam were registered with this Court; That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship mani-fested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioner and respondent and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated in the early part of 2005 they decided to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation; since their separation in the early part of 2005 or for over seven (7) years now, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other; neither minding each other’s affairs: petitioner and respondent seek judicial decree of divorce thereby severing their marriage bond on December 21, 2000, so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them is no longer a remedy, as all efforts necessary for possible reconciliation had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this Joint Petition to be sufficient In form and substance, set the initial hear-ing of this case on September 22, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for the three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 5th day of September, 2012.


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IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-076AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE OF SPOUSES CHARLIE A. SUZON AND CRYSTAL M. BALASTA-SUZON,

CHARLIE A. SUZON AND CRYSTAL M. BALASTA- SUZON, Petitioners,x----------------------------------------------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is a verified Joint Petition for approval and registration of the divorce between herein spouses CHARLIE A. SUZON and CRYSTAL M. BALASTA-SUZON and alleging among others; That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, both Muslim converts and residents of Iligan City, their marriage was performed under Civil rite celebrated on May 8, 2005 at Clarin, Misamis Oriental, their converted to Islam faith of which conversions to Islam were registered with this Court: That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioner and respondent and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated in the early part of 2007 they decided to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation; since their separation in the early part of 2007 or for over five (5) years now, they had never been communicating or support-ing either financially or emotionally to each other: neither minding each other’s affairs; petitioner and respondent seek judicial decree of divorce thereby severing their marriage bond on May 8, 2005 so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them is no longer a remedy, as all efforts necessary for possible reconciliation had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this Joint Petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hear-ing of this case on September 26, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for the three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 6th day of September, 2012.


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Toyota Motor Philippines improves Fortuner and Hilux Models

Toyota Motor Philippines introduces New Vios Variants

optimized to induce re-sponsive power.

A Direct Current (DC) motor is used to operate the variable nozzle vane to help achieve outstanding engine performance.

The VNT Technology is available for the 4X4 V and 4X2 G Diesel (Manual and Automatic) Fortuner. In the other hand, the Hilux also offers the VNT for its 4X4 G, 4X2 G and 4x2 E variants.

A new feature for the Fortuner 4x4 V Diesel, 4X2 G Diesel Automatic and all Hilux 4x4 variants will be a newly installed Audio system with Navi-gation Global Positioning System (GPS) which offers the most POIs (Point of Interests) available in the Philippines.

This comes standard with a 6.5” Digital LCD with Touch screen func-tion, built-in DVD Player, FM/AM Tuner, Ipod con-trol and Video (Compatible with Iphone 3GS/4Gs and Ipod), Bluetooth capability, 50W X 4 Output amplifier and you may also plug in your favorite music player via the AUX or USB ports.

The improved Fortuner is available in both 4X4 and 4X2 drive trains.

The 4X4 comes along with a 3.0-liter V die-sel variant priced at P1, 759,000.

The 4X2 2.5-liter G die-sel option on the other hand is priced at P1, 484,000 for the Automatic Transmis-sion and P 1, 381,000 for the Manual Transmission.

A 2.7-liter G gasoline option is also offered at P1, 358,000.

Available shades are Lithium, Silky Gold Mica Metallic, Dark Grey, Dark Steel Mica Metallic, Xtreme Black.

A White Pearl color on all variants is now available for an additional P15, 000.

Meanwhile, the im-proved Hilux is also avail-able in both 4X4 and 4X2 drive trains, and offers automatic and manual transmissions.

The top-of the-line G variant equipped with a 3.0-liter diesel engine is priced at P1, 474,000 for the automatic transmis-sion and P1, 420,000 for the manual transmission.

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THINK a minute.Have you heard the say-

ing, “Being dead is bad for business?” If you’re dead, it’s rather safe to say that your business or career is too!

In a humorous way, this phrase is reminding us of the obvious: if we kill our-selves by not taking care of our health, we won’t even have a chance to be suc-cessful and happy in life.

Being dead is VERY bad for business! So when we find ourselves saying, “I just don’t have time to exercise.”

What we should be say-ing is, “I can’t afford not to exercise.”

If you lose your health, you won’t be able to enjoy your money or your family.

So in the long run it

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Being dead is bad for business

takes far less time to take care of your body now, than the time you’d lose if you lost your health.

A wise person said: “Eat, drink, and be moderate!” In other words, don’t overdo anything.

Be smart: get healthy and stay healthy. So overeating, getting drunk, overworking, or not working enough; none of it is worth dying

for and not enjoying life to the fullest with your family and friends.

Remember, too much of any good thing can ruin or even destroy your life.

Just think how good you’ll feel and the years you’ll add to your life by simply taking care of your body now.

You know that you can be healthy by eating only

fat-free, cholesterol-free, and sugar-free food, yet still be dying of spiritual cancer?

You can have a great body and good health, even a successful business and job, but still not have peace of mind that you’re forgiven and living right with your Maker.

So why not decide today to get right both in your body and also in your heart and relationship with God?

Simply ask Jesus Christ to forgive you and to help you start living His right way every day.

It’s then you’ll have it all: your health and good life now, as well as after you die.

Just Think a Minute.

Padayon’s political advocacy

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OpinionOpinionEditor: RUEL VILLANUEVA PELONE • Email: [email protected]

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YESTERDAY, we wrote that politics is changeable as the weather. This proven contention takes place at times when the political condition is uncertain. The political atmosphere also changes stra-tegically to define possible protagonists in the political arena. While there are those whose commitments could not withered, others simply retreat when the situation becomes too risky for comfort.

This situation always happens even in the most closely-knit political circle of leaders and supporters. What makes it dangerous, however, is when one easily succumbed to an enemy’s pitfall. Of course, like in real arm conf lict, politi-cal battles also adopt strategic and tactical approaches to weaken an enemy.

As in war, one of the most important strategies is to deny the enemy of resources, leaders, and followers. The General in the battlefield is the rallying symbol of struggle. He strengthens the morale and esprit de corps of an entire army. When the General surrenders or captured, the battle is tactically lost. However, losing tactically does not mean that the war is over. Perhaps, a new, young, and intelligent General would take place the fallen comrade and becomes an aggressive conqueror.

The same is true in politics. When one of its leaders turned traitor to an avowed political cause, not all is lost. While it would take time to look for a worthy replacement, the effort would not go to waste since most supporters remain intact. There is no truth that when a politician jumped to another ship, his supporters would follow suit. In past political expe-riences, political leaders who abandoned their avowed cause simply suffered dismal losses in political battles. Padayon Pilipino is not new to this political paroxysm.

For instance, former Cong. Jun Baculio, Misamis Ori-ental’s 2nd District, never won a congressional seat until he joined Padayon Pilipino. When Baculio joined Padayon, he handily won the Congressional seat and served for three consecutive terms without losing in any single re-election. However, he abandoned Padayon Pilipino in 2007 after serving his third term in Congress. By then, he severed ties with Padayon Pilipino and ran for Governor. Baculio lost. In 2010, Baculio ran again for Congress. Again, he lost. Other politicians Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro had their grand time in politics while being with Padayon Pilipino. Like Baculio, these politicians lost the glitters after they abandoned the party that nurtures their political carriers.

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LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the oth-ers…” (Philippians 2:3-4, the Holy Bible).

-ooo-QUESTIONS ON CY-

BERCRIME LAW: To the authors of Republic Act No. 10175, otherwise known as the Cybercrime Law, or “An Act Defining Cybercrime, Providing for the Preven-tion, Investigation, Sup-pression and the Imposition of Penalties Therefor and Other Purposes”, here are two questions that you may want to answer, raised by members of the Sigma Rho Fraternity of the UP Col-lege of Law through their Internet e-group.

First question, from a businessman-member of the e-group: “How does the

Emailing to sell or advertise is now a crime?

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recent signing of the law by President Aquino affect present day e-commerce activities? Specifically, one of my clients (in sales and marketing) is sending out proposals via email to po-tential corporate accounts for their Christmas gift baskets. Are they in viola-tion of the aforementioned law?”

This question is based on Chapter II, Punishable Acts, Section 4 ( c ) (3) (i) (ii) (iii) (aa) (bb) (cc), all of which say that a cybercrime is committed by someone who transmits a commercial electronic communication

through a computer system (like emailing a proposal) “which seeks to advertise, sell, or offer for sale prod-ucts and services”.

-ooo-EMAILING TO SELL

OR ADVERTISE IS NOW A CRIME? Relevant to this question is a part of the law that defines three conditions that remove li-ability for cybercrime, even if an email is sent selling or advertising products and services. One condition is that, there is prior af-firmative consent from the recipient, or the primary intent of the communica-

tion is for service and/or administrative announce-ments from the sender to its existing users, subscribers or customers.

Two, the commercial electronic communication contains a simple, valid, and reliable way for the recipient to reject receipt of further commercial elec-tronic messages (opt-out) from the same source, or the commercial electronic communication does not purposely disguise the source of the electronic message.

Three, the commercial electronic communication does not purposely include misleading information in any part of the message in order to induce the recipi-ents to read the message.

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SIVE POST MAY NOW BE A CRIME, TOO: The second question: “If there

By BENJIE OLIVEROS of Bulatlat.com

FORTY YEARS AGO, Ferdinand E. Marcos launched a successful rightist coup and declared himself as president for life, arrested all those opposed to his rule from the traditional opposition to those identified with the Left and even ordinary students, workers, the urban poor, peasants, professionals, church people, among others who, in one way or another, were connected to progressive organizations or were simply photographed attending rallies in an attempt to silence them; totally disregarded the Bill of Rights; banned mass protest actions including rallies and strikes; declared as illegal all progressive organizations; padlocked media agencies; closed Congress; and declared martial rule.

He also sequestered the proper-ties and ownerships of his political enemies. It was the worst time for democracy and yet, it was the only way he could hold on to power in the context of a worsening economic,

social, and political crisis.Marcos ruled by decree for 14

years and violated human rights with impunity. He cornered all big govern-ment contracts and monopolized strategic industries.

At the same time, he acceded to the demands of the IMF-WB by of-fering a lot of incentives for foreign investments and establishing export processing zones, incurring loans for infrastructure projects, rescinding the fixed exchange rate regime in favor of the floating rate in setting the value of the peso; liberalizing imports, among others.

He allowed the use of the US Military Bases for the US’s war of ag-gression against Vietnam and North Korea.

The Filipino people sank deeper and deeper into poverty not only because of the large-scale corruption of the Marcos family but more im-portant was the regime’s continuing obedience to the dictates of the US and the IMF-WB.

This became more pronounced after the debt crisis of the early 80s, which also resulted in the intensifica-tion of the anti-dictatorship move-ment that had been brewing since the mid-70s onwards.

From strikes in a few, small com-panies to bigger strikes in many companies; from the formation of sectoral organizations to the launch-ing of big alliance formations; from lightning rallies to big mobilizations; from small armed skirmishes to big battles.

The chilling effect of Marcos’s iron fist rule lasted for only two years, as progressives were able to rebuild or-ganizations amid the worsening crisis.

No matter how the Marcos fascist dictatorship tried to quell the brewing mass movement by violent attacks on strikes and rallies, massive arrests and detention, torture, enforced disap-pearances, salvagings (a euphemism for extrajudicial killings), forcible displacement

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IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-077AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE OF SPOUSES ANTONIO R. TABILJRAN AND ANNALYN C. REGUYA,

ANTONIO R. TABILIRAN AND ANNALYN C. REGUYA, Petitioners.x---------------------------------------------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is a verified Joint Petition for approval and registration of the divorce between herein spouses ANTONIO R. TABILIRAN and ANNALYN C. REGUYA, and alleging among others; That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, both Muslim converts and residents of Molave, Zamboanga del Sur and Iligan City, respectively, their marriage was performed under Civil rite on October 24, 1999 at Molave, Zamboanga del Sur, they converted to Islam faith, of which conversions to Islam were registered with this Court: That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship mani-fested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioner and respondent and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated in the early part of 2007 they decided to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation; since their separation in the early part of 2007 or for over five (5) years now, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other; neither minding each other’s affairs; petitioner and respondent seek judicial decree of divorce thereby severing their marriage bond on October 24, 1999, so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them is no longer a remedy, as all efforts necessary for possible reconciliation had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this Joint Petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hear-ing of this case on September 26, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not he granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for the three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 6th day of September, 2012.


MDN: Sept 6, 13 & 20, 2012



IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-078AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE OF SPOUSES VAN TUNG VO AND CECILS T. DOMINGUEZ,

CECILYIN T. DOMINGUEZ AND VAN TUNG VO. Petitioners.x-------------------------------------------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is a verified Joint Petition for approval and registration of the divorce between herein spouses VAN TUNG VO and CECILYN T. DOMINGUEZ, and alleging among others: That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, both Muslim converts and residents of Oroquieta City and Iligan City, respectively, their marriage was performed under Civil rite celebrated on July 10, 2006 at Tudela, Misamis Occidental, they converted to Islam faith of which conversions to Islam were registered with this Court: That said marriage did not last long due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioner and respondent and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated in the early part of 2007 they decided to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation; since their separation In the early part of 2007 or for over five (5) years now, they had never been communicating or support-ing either financially or emotionally to each other; neither minding each other’s affairs; petitioner and respondent seek judicial decree of divorce thereby severing their marriage bond on July 10, 2006 so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden: reconciliation between them is no longer a remedy, as all efforts necessary for possible reconciliation had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this Joint Petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hear-ing of this case on September 26, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for the three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 6th day September, 2012.


MDN: Sept 6, 13 & 20, 2012

Republic of die PhilippinesFOURTH SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT


IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-071AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE OF SPOUSES JULIO V. TERO and VICTORIA B. TERO,

JULIO V. TERO and VICTORIA E. TERO.Petitioners,x--------------------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is a verified Joint Petition for approval and registration of the divorce between herein spouses JULIO V. TERO sad VICTORIA E. TERO and alleging among others: That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, both Muslim converts and residents of Iligan City, their marriage was performed under Civil rite on May 18, 1999 at Alubijid, Misamis Oriental, their converted to Islam faith, of which conversions to Islam were registered with this Court: That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioner and respondent and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated in the early part of 2004 they decided to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation; since their separation in the early part of 2004 or for over eight (8) years now, they had never been communicating or support-ing either financially or emotionally to each other; neither minding each other’s affairs; petitioner and respondent seek judicial decree of divorce thereby severing their marriage bond on May 18, 1999 so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them is no longer a remedy, as all efforts necessary for possible reconciliation had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this Joint Petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hear-ing of this case on September 25, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for the three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 5th day of September, 2012.


MDN: Sept 6, 13 & 20, 2012


Fourth Shari’a Judicial District Iligaii City

IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-069AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE OF SPOUSES EFREN B. HILARIO and EDNA R. HILARIO,

EFREN E. HILARIO and EDNA R. HILARIO, Petitioners.x---------------------------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is a verified Joint Petition for approval and registration of the divorce between herein spouses EFREN B. HILARIO and EDNA R. IHLARIO and alleging among others; That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, both Muslim converts and residents of Iligan City their marriage was performed under Civil rite on September 9, 1989 at Lala, Latiao del Norte, they converted to Islam faith, of which conversions to Islam were registered with this Court: That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship mani-fested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioner and respondent and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated in the early part of 2002 they decided to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation; since their separation in the early part of 2002 or for over ten (10) years now, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other: neither minding each other’s affairs; petitioner and respondent seek judicial decree of divorce thereby severing their marriage bond on September 9, 1989, so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them is no longer a remedy, as all efforts necessary for possible reconciliation had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this Joint Petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hear-ing of this case on September 25, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for the three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 5th day of September, 2012.


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IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-072AND REGISTER THE DIVORCE OF SPOUSES HIDEHIKO KENNETH KIMURA and IRISH ROA KIMURA,

HIDEHIKO KENNETH KIMURA and IRISH ROA KIMURA, Petitioners,x--------------------------------------------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is a verified Joint Petition for approval and registration of the divorce between herein spouses Hidehiko Kenneth Kimura and Irish Roa Kimura and alleging among others; That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, both Muslim converts and residents of Iligan City, their marriage was performed under Civil rite on July 30, 2007 at Balingasag, Misamis Oriental, they converted to Islam faith of which conversions to Islam were registered with this-Court: That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioner and respondent and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated in the early part of 2007 they decided to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Divorce Agreement in order to formalize their separation; since their separation in the early part of 2007 or for over five (5) years now, they had never been communicating or support-ing either financially or emotionally to each other; neither minding each other’s affairs; petitioner and respondent seek judicial decree of divorce thereby severing their marriage bond on July 30, 2007 so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them is no longer a remedy as all efforts necessary for possible reconciliation had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this Joint Petition to be sufficient in form and substance, set the initial hear-ing of this case on September 25, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Iligan once a week for the three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 5th day of September, 2012.


MDN: Sept 6, 13 & 20, 2012

RA Form No. 10.1 (LCRO)

Republic of the PhilippinesOFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

Province of Lanao del NorteMunicipality of Tubod

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In Compliance with Section 5 of R.A. Act No. 9048, a notice is hereby serve to the public that JULIE PIDO SIGUE has filed with this Office a petition for change of first name from HAUSEN to RADIE HUSSIEN in the birth certificate of HAUSEN PIDO SIGUE who was born on 15 AUGUST 1990 at TUBOD, LANAO DEL NORTE and whose parents are RAUL SIGUE and JULIE PIDO.

Any person adversely affected by said petition may file his written opposi-tion with this Office not later than 28 September 2012.

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CAGAYAN de Oro City––Making better investment and marketing decisions thru information communi-cation technologies is seen as one of the requisites in maximizing profitability among farmers, fisherfolks and other stakeholders in the agricultural industry.

To address the neces-sity, the Department of Agriculture – Regional Field Office 10 (DA-10) through the Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (AMAD) hosted a hands-on training on the web maintenance and data uploading in the Ag-riculture and Fisheries Marketing Information System (AFMIS), recently, in this city.

The developed AFMIS

Market info brought closer to agri-clientelesis a ‘web-based system that integrates various information resources of the Market Development Cluster (MDC) agencies into a single database and application system’.

Such was brought into fruit ion to modernize the agriculture and fish-eries sectors throughout the country as mandated in Republic Act 8435 or otherwise known as the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act.

Serving as the training’s resource persons are Ms. Cristine D. Baldelomar and Mr. Edmar L. Fajutagana of the AFMIS-Technical Working Group (TWG), who have explained that Northern Mindanao is one of the four priority regions

for the AFMIS implemen-tation.

In order to provide reli-able, sufficient and timely market-related informa-tion, the AFMIS features agri-fishery statistics rang-ing from production, supply and demand data, quantities traded, price trends, market profiles such as distribution channels, marketing costs and other value-adding ac-tivities, market infrastruc-ture, product standards for both fresh and processed products, research informa-tion and technology, and among others.

On the issue of main-streaming the website for public consumption, Ms. Baldedomar enlightened the body that the AFMIS is still in its enhancement

stage, underscoring that it entails the incorporation of more materials to the system. If and when at-tained, she added, that the AFMIS-TWG along with its partners would ensue initiatives for the awareness of more agri-advocates.

Composit ion of the MDG include the AMAD, the Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Informa-tion Division, the Regional Agriculture and Fisheries Council, the Agricultural Training Institute and the Regional Communication Unit in strong collaboration with farmers, fisherfolks and other key players in the agricultural sector through the provincial and local government units.

Joanne L. Olson, DA-10

AFMIS HANDS-ON TRAINING. Representatives from the MDC agencies convened to acquaint themselves with the web-based system that would allow them to report market-related information. These, in turn, would serve as valuable inputs for the AFMIS, which are primarily intended for the empowerment of agricultural key players thru aiding them in mak-ing wise investment and marketing choices.

Military repelsSayaff attack in

Basilan provinceZAMBOANGA City––Government troops manning a detachment have repelled an attacked by Abu Sayyaf bandits in the island province of Basilan, south of this city, officials said on Tuesday.

Capt. Alberto Caber, spokesman of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division, said the attacked took place around 9:20 a.m. Monday at the Candiis Detachment located in Barangay Upper Cabengbeng, Sumisip, Basilan province.

Caber said the attackers were followers of Commander Botong Aleman, a mid-level leader of the remaining Abu Sayyaf bandits in Basilan.

The troops from the Army’s 64th Infantry Battalion and 1405th Special Forces Team fought back the attack-ers when they came under fire by the attacking bandits, Caber said.

He said the Abu Sayyaf bandits fled to different directions after the Charlie Company troops, stationed nearby, have pounded them with mortar fires in support to Candiis Detachment troops.

He said no one among the troops stationed at Can-diis Detachment were either killed or injured during the attack.

He disclosed that Monday’s attack on Candiis detach-ment, which was a former Abu Sayyaf camp, was the fifth since July this year.

“Evidently, the bandits want to regain possession of the said detachment that will again serve as their obser-vation post to provide them great tactical advantage in the area against government troops,” he said.

Maguindanao bets vow to ensure

‘bloodless’ electionsCOTABATO City––While fi ling of certifi cates of candidacy for next year’s elections is yet to start on October 1, two possible gubernatorial candidates in Maguindanao have already signifi ed their openness to sign an “election peace covenant” to ensure peaceful elections in the province.

On separate media statements, reelectionist Governor Esmael Toto Mangudadatu and aspirant Mayor Tocao Mastura of Sultan Kudarat, both said they were more than willing to sign a peace pact to ensure a bloodless Maguindanao elections. “I am ready to accept the elec-torate’s verdict in next years elections,” Mangudadatu said. “I am for peaceful elections so I am willing to sign a peace covenant.”

For his part, Mastura declared he is pushing for “spiritual awakening” in Maguindanao and that he is to serve as an example. “I want peaceful elections like all the people of Maguindanao, so I will sign a peace pact for the sake of our people,” Mastura said in a news conference. Mangu-dadatu is the offi cial and standard bearer of the Liberal Party while Mastura is the offi cial candidate of Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban).

Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT

4th SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT 4th Shari’a Judicial District

Iligan City

IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE ANDREGISTER THE DIVORCE BETWEEN CIVIL CASE N0. 2012-083SPOUSES REX S. BARAZON AND RITZEL C. ASUNCION,

REX S. BARAZON AND RITZEL C. ASUNCION. Petitioners.X-----------------------------------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is verified Joint Petition for the approval and Registration of the Divorce filed by petitioners and alleging among others: That petitioners are husband and wife respectively in a marriage performed under the Civil rite on April 8, 2002 at Palao, Iligan City, both of them can be served with summons and notices at their residents at Poblacion, Linamon, Lanao del Norte. That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated for more than four (4) years now, they decide to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Agreement or Divorce by Talaq in order to formalize their separation; since their separation, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other, neither minding each other’s affairs; petitioner’s seek judicial decree of divorce thereby surviving their marriage bond on April 8, 2002, so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden; reconciliation between them had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this joint petition to be sufficient Inform and substance, set the initial hearing of this case on October 5, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of General Circulation in the City of Iligan one week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED. Iligan City, Philippines, this 18th day of September 2012.

HON. OSOP M. ALI Presiding JudgeMDN: Sept 20, 27 & Oct. 3, 2012

Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT

4th SHARI’A CIRCUIT COURT 4th Shari’a Judicial District

Iligan City

IN RE: PETITION TO APPROVE ANDREGISTER THE DIVORCE BETWEEN CIVIL CASE NO. 2012-082SPOUSES EUGENIO YBANEZ SARABIA AND LILIBETH J. IMPERIAL-SARABIA,

EUGENIO YBANEZ SARABIA AND LILIBETH J. IMPERIAL-SARABIA. Petitioners.x----------------------------------------------------/

ORDER

Before this court is verified Joint Petition for the approval and Registration of the Divorce filed by petitioners and alleging among others: That petitioners are husband and wife, respectively, in a marriage performed under Civil rite on December 9, 1990 at UCCP, Iligan City, both of them can be served with summons and notices at their residents at Tangub, Misamis Occidental and Scions Subdivision, Tominobo, Iligan City respectively; That said marriage did not last long, due to lack of love and affection until the relationship manifested incompatibility and sustained misunderstanding between petitioners and reached the point of irreconcilability and they separated for more than eleven (11) years now, they decide to live physically in bed and board thereby executed Agreement or Divorce by Talaq in order to formalize their separation; since their separation in early part of 2001, they had never been communicating or supporting either financially or emotionally to each other, neither minding each other’s affairs; petitioner’s seek judicial decree cm divorce thereby surviving their marriage bond on December 8, 1990 so that they will have free hand to do what a single man or woman could do without marital burden: reconciliation between them had already been diligently employed but all proved futile. WHEREFORE, finding this joint petition be sufficient Inform and substance, set the initial hearing of this case on Oct. 5, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. at which time, date and place, any interested party may appear and show why the petition should not be granted. Let copy of this Order be published in a newspaper of General Circulation in the City of Iligan one week for three (3) consecutive weeks at the expense of the petitioner. SO ORDERED Iligan City, Philippines, this 12th day of September 2012.

HON. OSOP M. ALI Presiding JudgeMDN: Sept 20, 27 & Oct. 3, 2012

Republic of the PhilippinesPROVINCE OF BUKIDNON

Municipality of Manolo Fortich

OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

Petition No. CFN-14-2012

In the Matter of Petition for Change of First Namein the Certificate of Live Birth ofWENDELINO INDINO HEDUCOS

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

The public is hereby notified that WENDELINO INDINO HEDUCOS has filed with this Office a petition for change of first name from “VIRGILIO” to “WENDELINO” in the Certificate of Live Birth of WENDELINO INDINO HEDUCOS. At the expense of the petitioner, let a copy of this petition be published at least once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Province of Bukidnon. Any person having knowledge and/or claiming interest or may be adversely affected by said petition may within ten (10) calendar days file his written opposition with this office.

(SGD) VIRGIE A. COQUILLA Municipal Civil Registrar

MDN: SEPT. 20, & 27, 2012

EXCERPT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE SANGGUNIANG BAYAN OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF TUBOD, PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL NORTE, HELD ON MARCH 5, 2012, AT THE LEGISLATIVE HALL.

Present: Hon. Eduardo C. Mansueto, Vice Mayor, Presiding Officer Hon. Edward O. Pido, SBMember Hon. Nelly M. Pepito, SBMember Hon. Clifford J. Jumalon, SBMember Hon. Jimmy N. Amas, SBMember Hon. Rudy L. Pepito, SBMember Hon. Nicasio C. Lacson, SBMember Hon. Loriano S. Jumarito, SBMember Hon. Peter John G. Yanoc, SK Federated President

Absent: Hon. Leoncio C. Bagol, ABC President

RESOLUTION NO. 27, S’ 2012

“ENACTING MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE REVISING THE REVENUE CODE OF TUBOD, LANAO DEL NORTE, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFORE.”

WHEREAS, Section 18 of Republic Act 7160, known as the Local Government Coded of 1991 states that “Local Government Unit has the power to create their own sources of revenues to levy taxes, fees and charges which shall be retained to them; WHEREAS, the existing Revenue Code of Tubod, Lanao del Norte has been revised last January 2006 and some provisions that have not updated to fit the present condition of the economy of the town, as well as with other vital and appropriate considerations; and WHEREAS, there is a need to revise the Revenue Code of Tubod, commensurate with the status of the economic situation of the municipality and by virtue of the real essence of local autonomy. WHEREFORE, on motion of SBMember Jimmy N. Amas, duly seconded by SBMember Felipe A. Perales, it was resolved, as it is hereby RESOLVED, by the Sangguniang Bayan of Tubod, Lanao del Norte in session assembled to pass and enact –

MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE NO. 224-2012

“REVISING THE REVENUE CODE OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF TUBOD, PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL NORTE.” Be it ordained by the Sangguniang Bayan of the Municipality of Tubod, Province of Lanao del Norte, that

CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE 1. Short Title and Scope Section 1. Short Title. This ordinance shall be known as the 2012 Revenue Code of the Municipality of Tubod, Province of Lanao del Norte. Section 2. Scope and Application. This Code shall govern the levy, assessment, and collection of taxes, fees, charges and other impositions within the territorial jurisdiction of this municipality.

TITLE II. Construction of Provisions

Section 1. Words and Phrases Not Herein Expressly Defined. Words and phrases embodied in this Code not herein specifically defined shall have the same definitions as found in RA 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991. Section 2. Rules of Construction. In construing the provisions of this Code, the following rules of construction shall be observed unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the provisions.(a) General Rules. All words and phrases shall be construed and understood according to the

common and approved usage of the language; but the technical words and phrases and such other words in this Code which may have acquired a peculiar or appropriate meaning shall be construed and understood according to such technical, peculiar or appropriate meaning.

(b) Gender and Number. Every word in the Code importing the masculine gender shall extend to both male and female. Every word importing the singular number shall apply to several persons or things as well; and every word importing the plural number shall extend and be applied to one person or thing as well.

(c) Reasonable Time. In all cases where any act is required to be done within the reasonable time, the same shall be deemed to mean such time as may be necessary for the prompt performance of the act.

(d) Computation of Time. The time within which an act is to be done as provided in this Code, or in any rule or regulation issued pursuant to the provisions thereof, when expressed in days, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last day, except if the last day falls on a Sunday or holiday, in which case the same shall be excluded in the computation and the business day following shall be considered the last day.

(e) References. All references to chapters, articles, or sections are to the Chapters, Articles or Sections in this Code unless otherwise specified.

(f) Conflicting Provisions of Chapters. If the provisions of different chapters conflict with or con-travene each other, the provisions of each chapter shall prevail as to all specific matters and questions involved therein.

(g) Conflicting Provisions of Sections. If the provisions of the different sections in the same article conflict with each other, the provisions of the Section which is the last in point of sequence shall prevail.

TITLE III. Definition of Terms

Section 1. Definitions . When used in this Code.(a) Business means trade or commercial activity regularly engaged in as a means of livelihood or

with a view to profit;(b) Charges refer to pecuniary liability, as rents or fees against persons or property;(c) Cooperative is a duly registered association of persons, with a common bond of interest, who

have voluntarily joined together to achieve a lawful, common, social, or economic end, making equitable contributions to the capital required and accepting a fair share of the risks and benefits of the undertaking in accordance with universally accepted cooperative principles.

(d) Corporations includes partnerships, no matter how created or organized, joint-stock companies, joint accounts (cuentas en participation), associations or insurance companies but does not include general professional partnerships and a joint venture or consortium formed for the purpose of undertaking construction projects or engaging in petroleum, coal, geothermal, and other energy operations or consortium agreement under a service contract with the government. General professional partnerships are partnerships formed by persons for the sole purpose of exercising their common profession, no part of the income of which is derived from engaging in any trade or business;

The term “resident foreign” when applied to a corporation means a foreign corporation not otherwise organized under the laws of the Philippines but engaged in trade or business within the Philippines.

(e) Countryside and Barangay Business Enterprise refers to any business entity, association, or cooperative registered under the provisions of RA 6810, otherwise known as Magna Carta for Countryside and Barangay Business Enterprises (Kalakalan 20);

(f) Fee means a charge fixed by law or ordinance for the regulation or inspection of a business or activity. It shall also include charges fixed by law or agency for the services of a public officer in the discharge of his official duties;

(g) Franchise is a right or privilege, affected with public interest that is conferred upon private persons or corporations, under such terms and conditions as the government and its political subdivisions may impose in the interest of public welfare, security and safety;

(h) Gross Sales or Receipts include the total amount of money or its equivalent representing the contract price, compensation or service fee, including the amount charged or materials sup-plied with the services and deposits or advance payments actually received during the taxable quarter for the services performed or to be performed for another person excluding discounts if determinable at the time of sales, sales return, excise tax, and value added tax (VAT);

(i) Levy means an imposition or collection of an assessment, tax, fee, charge, or fine.(j) License or Permit is a right or permission granted in accordance with law or by a competent

authority to engage in some business or occupation or to engage in some transactions.(k) Municipal Waters include not only streams, lakes and tidal waters within the municipality, not

being the subject of private ownership and not comprised within the national parks, public forest, timber lands, forest reserves or fishery reserves, but also marine waters included between two lines drawn perpendicularly to the general coastline from points where boundary lines of the municipality or city touch the sea at low tide and a third line parallel with the general coastline and fifteen (15) kilometers from it. Where two (2) municipalities are so situated on the opposite shores that there is less than fifteen (15) kilometers of marine waters between them, the third line shall be equally distant from opposite shores of the respective municipalities;

(l) Operator includes the owner, manager, administrator, or any other person who operates or is responsible for the operation of a business establishment or undertaking;

(m) Privilege means a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage or favor.(n) Persons mean every natural or juridical being, susceptible of rights and obligations or of being

the subject of legal relations;(o) Rental means the value of the consideration, whether in money, or otherwise, given for the

enjoyment or use of a thing.(p) Residents refer to natural persons who have their habitual residence in the province, city, or

municipality where they exercise their civil rights and fulfill their civil obligations, and to juridical persons for which the law or any other provision creating or recognizing them fixes their residence in a particular province, city or municipality. In the absence of such laws, juridical persons are residents or the province, city or municipality where they have their legal residence or principal place of business or where they conduct their principal business or occupation;

(q) Revenue includes taxes, fees and charges that a state or its political subdivision collects and receives into the treasury for public purposes.

(r) Services mean the duties, work or functions performed or discharged by a government officer, or by a private person contracted by the government, as the case may be.

(s) Tax means an enforced contribution, usually monetary in form, levied by the law making body on persons and property subject to its jurisdiction for the precise purpose of supporting governmental needs.

(t) Vessels include every type of boat, craft or other artificial contrivance, capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.

CHAPTER II. TAXES ON BUSINESS

TITLE I. Graduated Tax on Business

Section 1. Definitions. When used in this Article.(a) Advertising Agency includes all persons who are engaged in the business of advertising for others

by means of billboards, posters, placards, notices, signs, directories, pamphlets, leaflets, handbills, electric or neon lights, airplanes, balloons or other media, whether in pictorial or reading form.

(b) Agricultural Products include the yield of the soil, such as corn, rice, wheat, rye, hay, coconut, sugarcane, tobacco, root crops, vegetables, fruits, flowers, and their by-products; ordinary salt; all kinds of fish; poultry; and livestock and animal products, whether in their original form or not;

The phrase “whether in their original form or not” refers to the transformation of said products by the farmer, fisherman, producer or owner through the application of processes to preserve or otherwise to prepare said products for the market such as freezing, drying, salting, smoking, or stripping for purposes of preserving or otherwise preparing said products for the market; to be considered an agricultural product whether in its original form or not, its transformation must have been undertaken by the farmer, fisherman, producer or owner.

Agricultural products as defined include those that undergo not only simple but even sophisticated processes employing advanced technological means in packaging like dressed chicken or ground coffee in plastic bags or styropor or other packaging materials intended to process and prepare the products for the market.

The term by-products shall mean those materials which in cultivation or processing of an article remain over, and which are still of value and marketable, like copra cake from copra or molasses from sugar cane;

(c) Amusement is a pleasurable diversion and entertainment. It is synonymous to relaxation, avoca-tion, pastime, or fun;

(d) Amusement Places include theaters, cinemas, concert halls, circuses and other places of amusement where one seeks admission to entertain oneself by seeing or viewing the show or performance;

(e) Banks and other Financial Institutions include non-bank financial intermediaries, lending investors, finance and investment companies, pawnshops, money shops, insurance companies, stock markets, stock brokers, and dealers in securities and foreign exchange, as defined under applicable law, or rules and regulations thereunder;

(f) Brewer includes all persons who manufacture fermented liquors of any description for sale or delivery to others but does not include manufacturers of tuba, basi, tapuy or similar domestic fermented liquors, whose daily production does not exceed two hundred gauge liters.

(g) Business Agent includes all persons who act as agents of others in the transaction of business with any public officer, as well as those who conduct collecting, advertising, employment, or private detective agencies.

(h) Cabaret/Dance Hall includes any place or establishment where dancing is permitted to the public in consideration of any admission, entrance, or any other fee paid, on or before, or after the dancing, and where professional hostesses or dancers are employed.

(i) Capital Investment is the capital that a person employs in any undertaking, or which he contributes to the capital of a partnership, corporation, or any other juridical entity or association in a particular taxing jurisdiction;

(j) Carenderia refers to any public eating place where food already cooked are served at a price.(k) Cockpit includes any place, compound, building or portion thereof, where cockfights are held,

whether or not money bets are made on the results of such cockfights.(l) Contractor includes persons, natural or juridical, not subject to professional tax under Section

139 of the Local Government Code of 1991, whose activity consists essentially of the sale of all kinds of services for a fee, regardless of whether or not the performance of the service calls for the exercise or use of the physical or mental faculties of such contractor or his employees;

As used in this Article, the term “contractor” shall include general engineering, general building and specially contractors as defined under applicable laws, filling, demolition and salvage works contractors; proprietors or operators of mine drilling apparatus; proprietors or operators of dockyards; persons engaged in the installation of water system, and gas or electric light, heat, or establishments; proprietors or operators of smelting plants; engraving plating and plastic lamination establishments; proprietors or operators of establishments for repairing, repainting, upholstering, washing or greasing of vehicles, heavy equipment, vulcanizing, recapping and battery charging; proprietors or operators of furniture shops and establishments for planing or surfacing and re-cutting of lumber and sawmills under contract to saw or cut logs belonging to others; proprietors or operators of dry-cleaning or dyeing establishments, steam laundries, and using washing machines; proprietors or owners of shops for the repair of any kind of mechanical and electrical devices; instruments, apparatus, or furniture and shoe repairing by machine or any mechanical and electri-cal devices; proprietors or operators of establishments or lots for parking purposes; proprietors or operators of tailor shops, dress shops. milliners and hatters, beauty parlors, barbershops, massage clinics, sauna, Turkish and Swedish baths, slenderizing and body-building saloon and similar establishments; photographic studios; funeral parlors; proprietors or operators of hotels, motels, and lodging houses; proprietors or operators of arrastre and stevedoring, warehousing, or forwarding establishments; master plumbers, smiths and house or sign painters; printers, bookbinders, lithographers, publishers except those engaged in the publication or printing of any newspaper, magazine, review or bulletin which appears at regular intervals with fixed prices for subscription and sale and which is not devoted principally to the publication of advertisements; business agents, private detectives or watchman agencies; commercial and immigration brokers; cinematographic film owners, lessors and distributors.

The term “contractor” shall also include, but shall not be limited to, tax subjects enumer-ated under Section19 of Presidential Decree No. 231, but which are no longer included in the enumeration of “contractor” under Section 131 of Republic Act No. 7160, viz.: welding shops, service stations, white/blue, printing, recopying, or photocopying services, assaying laboratories, advertising agencies, shops for shearing animals, vaciador shops, stables, construction of mo-tor vehicles, animal drawn vehicles, and/or tricycles, lathe machine shops, furniture shops, and proprietors of bulldozers and other heavy equipment available to others for consideration.

(m) Dealer means one whose business is to buy and sell merchandise, goods and chattels as a merchant. He stands immediately between the producer or manufacturer and the consumer and depends for his profit not upon the labor he bestows upon his commodities but upon the skill and foresight with which he watches the market;

(n) Importer means any person who brings articles, goods, wares or merchandise of any kind or class into the Philippines from abroad for unloading therein, or which after entry are consumed herein or incorporated into the general mass of property in the Philippines. In case of tax-free articles, brought or imported into the Philippines by persons, entities or agencies exempt from tax which are subsequently sold, transferred or exchanged in the Philippines to non-exempt private persons or entities, the purchaser or recipient shall be considered the importer thereof.

(o) Manufacturer includes every person who, by physical or chemical process, alters the exterior texture or form or inner substance of any such raw materials or manufactured or partially manufactured product in such manner as to prepare it for special use or uses to which it could not have been put in its original condition, or who by any such process, alters the quality of any such raw mate-rial or manufactured or partially manufactured products so as to reduce its marketable shape or prepare it for any of the use of industry, or who by any such process, combines any raw material or manufactured products with other materials or products of the same or of different kinds and in such manner that the finished products of such process or manufacture can be put to a special use or uses to which such raw material or manufactured or partially manufactured in their original condition could not have been put, and who in addition, alters such raw material or manufactured or partially manufactured products, or combines the same to produce such finished products for the purpose of their sale or distribution to others and for his own use for consumption;

(p) Marginal Farmer or Fisherman refers to individuals engaged in subsistence farming or fishing which shall be limited to the sale, barter or exchange of agricultural or marine products produced by himself and his immediate family and whose annual net income from such farming or fishing does not exceed Fifty Thousand Pesos ( 50,000.00) or the poverty line established by NEDA for the particular region or locality, whichever is higher;

(q) Motor Vehicle means any vehicle propelled by any power other than muscular power using the public roads, but excluding road rollers, trolley cars, street sweepers, sprinklers, lawn mowers, bulldozers, graders, forklifts, amphibian trucks, and cranes if not used on public roads, vehicles that run only on rails or tracks, tractors, trailers, and traction engines of all kinds used exclusively for agricultural purposes;

(r) Peddler means any person who, either for himself or on commission, travels from place to place and sells his goods or offers to sell and deliver the same. Whether a peddler is a wholesale peddler or retail peddler of a particular commodity shall be determined from the definition of wholesale dealer or retail dealer as provided in this Ordinance;

(s) Public Market refers to any place, building, or structure of any kind designated as such by the local board or council, except public streets, plazas, parks, and the like.

(t) Rectifier comprises every persons who rectifies, purifies, or refines distilled spirits or wines by any process other than by original or continuous distillation from mash, wort, wash, sap, or syrup through continuous closed vessels and pipes until the manufacture thereof is complete. Every wholesale or retail liquor dealer who has in his possession any still or mash tub, or who keeps any other apparatus for the purpose of distilling spirits, or in any manner refining distilled spirits, shall also be regarded as a rectifier and as being engaged in the business of rectifying.

(u) Restaurant refers to any place which provides food to the public and accepts orders from them at a price. This term includes caterers.

(v) Retail means a sale where the purchaser buys the commodity for his consumption, irrespective of the quantity of the commodity sold;

(w) Vessel includes every type of boat, craft, or other artificial contrivances used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.

(x) Wharfage means a fee assessed against the cargo of a vessel engaged in foreign or domestic trade based on quantity, weight, or measure received and/or discharged by vessel;

(y) Wholesale means a sale where the purchaser buys or imports the commodities for resale to persons other than the end user regardless of the quantity of the transaction.

Section 2. Imposition of Tax. There is hereby imposed on the following persons who establish, operate, conduct or maintain their respective business within the municipality a graduated business tax in the amounts hereafter prescribed:(a) On manufacturers, assemblers, repackers, processors, brewers, distillers, rectifiers, and com-

pounders or liquors, distilled spirits, and wines or manufacturers of any article of commerce of whatever kind or nature. In accordance with the following schedule:

Amount of Gross Sales/Receipts For the Preceding Calendar Year: Tax Per Annum

Less than 10,000.00 220.0010,000.00 or more but less than 15,000.00 292.0015,000.00 or more but less than 20,000.00 401.0020,000.00 or more but less than 30,000.00 585.0030,000.00 or more but less than 40,000.00 879.0040,000.00 or more but less than 50,000.00 1,098.0050,000.00 or more but less than 75,000.00 1,757.0075,000.00 or more but less than 100,000.00 2,197.00100,000.00 or more but less than 150,000.00 2,928.00150,000.00 or more but less than 200,000.00 3,661.00200,000.00 or more but less than 300,000.00 5,125.00300,000.00 or more but less than 500,000.00 7,321.00500,000.00 or more but less than 750,000.00 10,648.00750,000.00 or more but less than 1,000,000.00 13,310.001,000,000.00 or more but less than 2,000,000.00 18,302.002,000,000.00 or more but less than 3,000,000.00 21,962.003,000,000.00 or more but less than 4,000,00 26,354.004,000,000.00 or more but less than 5,000,000.00 30,746.005,000,000.00 or more but less than 6,500,000.00 32,443.006,500,000.00 or more At a rate not exceeding thirty seven and a half percent (37-1/2%) of one percent (1%) The preceding rates shall apply only to the amount of domestic sales of manufacturers, as-semblers, repackers, processors, brewers, distillers, rectifiers and compounders of liquors, distilled spirits, and wines or manufacturers of any article of commerce of whatever kind or nature other than those enumerated under paragraph (c) of this Section.(b) On wholesalers, distributors, or dealers in any article of commerce of whatever kind or nature

in accordance with the following schedules:

Gross Sales/Receipts for the Preceding Calendar Year Amount of Tax Per Annum

Less than 1,000.00 24.001,000.00 or more but less than 2,000.00 44.002,000.00 or more but less than 3,000.00 67.003,000.00 or more but less than 4,000.00 96.004,000.00 or more but less than 5,000.00 133.005,000.00 or more but less than 6,000.00 161.006,000.00 or more but less than 7,000.00 190.00 7,000.00 or more but less than 8,000.00 220.008,000.00 or more but less than 10,000.00 249.0010,000.00 or more but less than 15,000.00 293.0015,000.00 or more but less than 20,000.00 366.0020,000.00 or more but less than 30,000.00 439.0030,000.00 or more but less than 40,000.00 585.0040,000.00 or more but less than 50,000.00 879.0050,000.00 or more but less than 75,000.00 1,318.0075,000.00 or more but less than 100,000.00 1,757.00100,000.00 or more but less than 150,000.00 2,489.00150,000.00 or more but less than 200,000.00 3,221.00200,000.00 or more but less than 300,000.00 4,392.00300,000.00 or more but less than 500,000.00 7,187.00500,000.00 or more but less than 750,000.00 8,785.00750,000.00 or more but less than 1,000,000.00 11,713.001,000,000.00 or more but less than 2,000,000.00 13,310.002,000,000.00 or more At a rate not exceeding fifty percent (50%) of one percent (1%)

The businesses enumerated in paragraph (a) above shall no longer be subject to the tax on wholesalers, distributors, or dealers herein provided for.(c) On exporters, and on manufacturers, millers, producers, wholesalers, distributors, dealers or

retailers of essential commodities enumerated hereunder at a rate not exceeding one-half (1/2) of the rates prescribed under subsections (a), (b), and (d) of this Article;

(1) Rice and Corn; (2) Wheat or cassava flour, meat, dairy products, locally manufactured,

processed or preserved food, sugar, salt and agricultural marine and fresh water products, whether in their original state or not;

(3) Cooking oil and cooking gas; (4) Laundry soap, detergents and medicine; (5) Agricultural implements, equipment and post-harvest facilities, fertilizers, pesticides,

insecticides, herbicides and other farm inputs; (6) Poultry feeds and other animal feeds; (7) School supplies; and

(8) Cement

For purposes of this provision, the term exporters shall refer to those who are principally engaged in the business of exporting goods and merchandise, as well as manufacturers and producers whose goods or products are both sold domestically and abroad. The amount of export sales shall be excluded from the total sales and shall be subject to the rates not exceeding one half (1/2) of the rates prescribed under paragraphs (a), (b), and (d) of this Article.

(d) On retailers.

Gross Sales/Receipts for the Preceding year Rate of Tax Per Annum

400,000.00 or less 2.66% More than 400,000.00 1.33% The rate of two percent (2.66%) per annum shall be imposed on sales not exceeding Four Hundred Thousand Pesos (P 400,000.00) while the rate of one percent (1.33%) per annum shall be imposed on sales in excess of the first Four Hundred Thousand Pesos (P400,000.00). However, barangays shall have the exclusive power to levy taxes on stores whose gross sales or receipts of the preceding calendar year does not exceed Thirty Thousand Pesos (P30,000.00) subject to existing laws and regulations.

(e) On contractors and other independent contractors in accordance with the following schedule.

Gross Sales/Receipts for the Preceding Calendar Year Amount of Tax Per Annum Less than 5,000.00 37.005,000.00 or more but less than 10,000.00 82.0010,000.00 or more but less than 15,000.00 139.0015,000.00 or more but less than 20,000.00 220.0020,000.00 or more but less than 30,000.00 365.0030,000.00 or more but less than 40,000.00 513.0040,000.00 or more but less than 50,000.00 733.0050,000.00 or more but less than 75,000.00 1,172.0075,000.00 or more but less than 100,000.00 1,757.00100,000.00 or more but less than 150,000.00 2,636.00150,000.00 or more but less than 200,000.00 3,513.00200,000.00 or more but less than 250,000.00 4,831.00250,000.00 or more but less than 300,000.00 6,149.00300,000.00 or more but less than 400,000.00 8,199.00400,000.00 or more but less than 500,000.00 10,981.00500,000.00 or more but less than 750,000.00 12,312.00750,000.00 or more but less than 1,000,000.00 13,643.001,000,000.00 or more but less than 2,000,000.00 15,307.00In excess of 2,000,000.00 At a rate not exceeding fifty percent (50%) of one percent (1%) Provided, that in no case shall the tax on gross sales of P2,000,000.00 or more be less than P11,500.00. For purposes of this section, the tax on multi-year projects undertaken general engineering, general building, and specialty contractors shall initially be based on the total contract price, payable in equal annual installments within the project term. Upon completion of the project, the taxes shall be recomputed on the basis of the gross receipts for the preceding calendar years and the deficiency tax, If there be any, shall be collected as provided in this Code or the excess tax payment shall be refunded. In cases of projects completed within the year, the tax shall be based upon the contract price and shall be paid upon the issuance of the Mayor’s Permit.

(f) On banks and other financial institutions, at the rate of fifty percent of one percent (50% of 1%) of the gross receipts of the preceding calendar year derived from interest, commissions and discounts from lending activities, income from financial leasing, dividends, rentals on property, and profit from exchange or sale of property, insurance premium. All other income and receipts not herein enumerated shall be excluded in the computation of the tax.

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(g) Owners or operators of cafes, refreshment parlors, restaurants, carinderias, food caters shall pay the tax accordance with the following schedule:

Gross Annual Sales/Receipts Amount of Tax Per For the Preceding Year Annum

Less than P2,000.00 P 67.00P2,000.00 or more but less than P 5,000.00 107.005,000.00 or more but less than 8,000.00 186.008,000.00 or more but less than 12,000.00 193.0012,000.00 or more but less than 18,000.00 399.0018,000.00 or more but less than 25,000.00 532.0025,000.00 or more but less than 30,000.00 665.0030,000.00 or more but less than 35,000.00 1,065.0035,000.00 or more but less than 40,000.00 1,331.0040,000.00 or more but less than 50,000.00 1,997.00In excess of P1,000.00 or fraction thereof in P 50,000.00 13.00

h. Real Estate dealers shall pay the tax in accordance with the following schedule: 1. Subdivision operators, per sq. meter the tax shall be base on the total area of the remaining lots titled in .13 the name of the subdivision operator. 2. Lessors or sub-lessors of real estate except hotels, motels and lodging houses which are taxable under paragraph (e) of this section:

Gross Annual Receipts Amount of Tax Per for the Preceding Year Annum

Less than 1,000.00 exemptP1,000.00 or more but less than P 5,000.00 P 67.005,000.00 or more but less than 10,000.00 133.00 10,000.00 or more but less than 20,000.00 266.0020,000.00 or more but less than 30,000.00 399.0030,000.00 or more but less than 40,000.00 999.0040,000.00 or more but less than 50,000.00 1,331.00In excess P1,000.00 in excess of P50,000.00 for real property used for purposes other than residential 27.00 In excess P1,000.00 in excess of P50,000.00for real property used for residential purpose 13.30

3. On dealers of real estate excluding subdivisions operators and lessor or real estate:

Gross Annual Receipts Amount of Tax Per for the Preceding Year Annum

Less than P10,000.00 P 399.00P10,000.00 or more but less than 50,000.00 999.0050,000.00 or more but less than 100,000.00 1,331.00100,000.00 or more but less than 150,000.00 1,997.00150,000.00 or more but less than 300,000.00 3,328.00300,000.00 or more but less than 500,000.00 6,655.00500,000.00 or more but less than 1,000,000.00 10,648.001,000,000.00 or more but less than 3,000,000.00 19,965.003,000,000.00 or more but less than 5,000,000.00 26,620.005,000,000.00 or more but less than 8,000,000.00 33,275.008,000,000.00 or more but less than 10,000,000.00 46,585.00For every P500,000.00 but in excess of P10,000.00 1,997.00

i. Owner or operators of private owned public markets and shopping center shall pay the tax in accordance with the following schedules:

Gross Receipts for the Amount of Tax Per Preceding Calendar Year AnnumLess than P20,000.00 P 665.0020,000.00 or more but less than 50,000.00 1,997.0050,000.00 or more but less than 100,000.00 3,328.00100,000.00 or more but less than 200,000.00 6,655.00200,000.00 or more but less than 250,000.00 8,652.00250,000.00 or more but less than 350,000.00 10,648.00350,000.00 or more but less than 500,000.00 13,310.00500,000.00 or more but less than 750,000.00 15,972.00750,000.00 or more but less than 1,000,000.00 19,965.00For every P5,000.00 in excess of 1,000,000.00 133.00

(h) On peddlers engaged in the sale of any merchandise or article of commerce, at the rate of (not exceeding P 50.00) per peddler annually. Delivery trucks, vans or vehicles used by manufacturers, producers, wholesalers, dealers or retailers enumerated under Section 141 of R.A. 7160 shall be exempt: from the peddlers tax herein imposed. The tax herein imposed shall be payable within the first twenty (20) days of January. An individual who will start to peddle merchandise or articles of commerce after January 20 shall pay the full amount of the tax before engaging in such activity.(i) On operators of public utility vehicles maintaining booking office , terminal, or waiting station for the purpose of carrying passengers from this municipality under a certificate of public convenience and necessity or similar franchises:

Air-conditioned buses _____ per unit Buses without air conditioning _____ per unit “Mini” buses _____ per unit Jeepneys/Fieras/Tamaraws _____ per unit Taxis _____ per unit (NOTE: Rate may be determined by computing estimated earning per day x 300 days x rate not to exceed 2% of gross receipts)

Section 3. Presumptive Income Level. For every tax period, the Treasurers Office shall prepare a stratified schedule of “presumptive income level” to approximate the gross receipt of each business classification. [The PIL technique makes use of easily verifiable indicators as means for determining gross sales. It is based on logical assumptions that do not require monitoring of business establishments nor financial audit and complicated computation. The indicators can be in the form of estimated daily sales/gross receipts, average number of customers, estimates of inventories, inventory turnover and mark-ups, space occupied, occupancy rates, and others. The indicators will also depend on the nature of the business. The major consideration in identifying possible indicators should be that these are easy to quantify, verifiable, common for the business, and acceptable to both the LGU and the taxpayers.] Section 4. Exemption. Business engaged in the production, manufacture, refining, distribution or sale of oil, gasoline, and other petroleum products shall not be subject to any local tax imposed in this Article. Section 5. Tax on Newly-Started Business. In the case of a newly started business under this Section, the tax shall be one-twentieth of one percent (1/20 of 1%) of the capital investment. In the succeeding calendar year, regardless of when the business started to operate, the tax shall be based on the gross receipts for the preceding calendar year or any fraction thereof, as provided in the pertinent schedules in this Article.

TITLE II. Situs of Tax Section 1. Situs of the Tax.

(a) For purposes of collection of the business tax under the “situs” of the tax law, the following definition of terms and guidelines shall be strictly observed:

1. Principal Office - the head or main office of the businesses appearing in the pertinent documents submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the Department of Trade and Industry, or other appropriate agencies as the case may be. The city or municipality specifically mentioned in the articles of the incorporation or official registration papers as being the official address or said principal office shall be considered as the situs thereof. In case there is a transfer or relocation of the principal office to another city or municipality, it shall be the duty of the owner, operator or manager of the business to give due notice of such transfer or relocation to the local chief executives of the cities or municipalities concerned within fifteen (15) days after such transfer or relocation is effected. 2. Branch or Sales Office - a fixed place in a locality which conducts operations of the busi-nesses as an extension of the principal office. However, offices used only as display areas of the products where no stocks or items are stored for sale, although orders for the products may be received thereat, are not branch or sales offices as herein contemplated. A warehouse which accepts orders and/or issues sales invoices independent of a branch with sales office shall be considered as a sales office. 3. Warehouse - a building utilized for the storage of products for sale and from which goods or merchandise are withdrawn for delivery to customers or dealers, or by persons acting on behalf of

the business. A warehouse that does not accept orders and/or issue sales invoices as aforementioned shall not be considered a branch or sales office. 4. Plantation - a tract of agricultural land planted to trees or seedlings whether fruit bearing or not, uniformly spaced or seeded by broadcast methods or normally arranged to allow highest production. For purpose of this Article, inland fishing ground shall be considered as plantation. 5. Experimental Farms - agricultural lands utilized by a business or corporation to conduct stud-ies, tests, researches or experiments involving agricultural, agri-business, marine or aquatic livestock, poultry, dairy and other similar products for the purpose of improving the quality and quantity of goods and products. However, on-site sales of commercial quantity made in experimental farms shall be similarly imposed the corresponding tax under paragraph (b), Section 2A.02 of this Ordinance.(b) Sales Allocation 1. All sales made in a locality where there is branch or sales office or warehouse shall be recorded in said branch or sales office or warehouse and the tax shall be payable to the city or municipality where the same is located.2. In cases where there is no such branch, sales office, plant or plantation in the locality where the sale is made, the sale shall be recorded in the principal office along with the sale made by said principal office and the tax shall accrue to the city or municipality where said principal office is located.3. In cases where there is a factory, project office, plant or plantation in pursuit of business, thirty percent (30%) if all sales recorded in the principal office shall be taxable by the city or municipality where the principal office is located and seventy percent (70%) of all sales recorded in the principal office shall be taxable by the city or municipality where the factory, project office, plant or plantation is located. The sales allocation in (a) and (b) above shall not apply to experimental farms. LGUs where only experimental farms are located shall not be entitled to the sales allocation herein provided for.4. In case of a plantation located in a locality other than that where the factory is located, said seventy percent (70%) sales allocation shall be divided as follows: Sixty percent (60%) to the city or municipality where the factory is located; and Forty percent (40%) to the city or municipality where the plantation is located. 5. In cases where there are two (2) or more factories, project offices, plants or plantations located in different localities, the seventy percent (70%) sales allocation shall be pro-rated among the localities where such factories, project offices, plants and plantations are located in proportion to their respective volumes of production during the period for which the tax is due. In the case of project offices of services and other independent contractors, the term production shall refer to the costs of projects actually undertaken during the tax period.6. The foregoing sales allocation under par. (3) hereof shall be applied irrespective of whether or not sales are made in the locality where the factory, project office, plant or plantation is located. In case of sales made by the factory, project office, plant or plantation, the sale shall be covered by paragraph (1) or (2) above.7. In case of manufacturers or producers which engage the services of an independent contractor to produce or manufacture some of their products, the rules on situs of taxation provided in this article as clarified in the paragraphs above shall apply except that the factory or plant and warehouse of the contractor utilized for the production or storage of the manufacturer’s products shall be considered as the factory or plant and warehouse of the manufacturer.8. All sales made by the factory, project office, plant or plantation located in this municipality shall be recorded in the branch or sales office which is similarly located herein, and shall be taxable by this municipality. In case there is no branch or sales office or warehouse in this municipality, but the principal office is located therein, the sales made in the dais factory shall be taxable by this municipality along with the sales made in the principal office.(c) Port of Loading - the city or municipality where the port of loading is located shall not levy and collect the tax imposable under Article A, Chapter 2 of this Ordinance unless the exporter maintain in said city or municipality its principal office, a branch, sales office, warehouse, factory, plant or plantation in which case the foregoing rule on the matter shall apply accordingly.(d) Route Sales - sales made by route trucks, vans or vehicles in this municipality where a manufacturer, producer, wholesaler, maintains a branch or sales office or warehouse shall be recorded in the branch or sales office or warehouse and shall be taxed herein. This municipality shall tax the sales of the products withdrawn by route trucks from the branch, sales office or warehouse located herein but sold in another locality.

TITLE III. Payment of Business Taxes

Section 1. Payment of Business Taxes. (a) The taxes imposed under Section 2A.01 and Section 2B.01 of this Ordinance shall be payable for every separate or distinct establishment or place where the business subject to the tax is conducted and one line of business does not become exempt by being conducted with some other businesses for which such tax has been paid. The tax on a business must be paid by the person conducting the same. The conduct or operation of two or more related businesses provided for under Section 2A.01 and Section 2B.01 of this Code any one person, natural or juridical, shall require the issuance of a separate permit or license to each business. (b) In cases where a person conducts or operates two (2) or more of the businesses mentioned in Section 2A.01 of this Ordinance which are subject to the same rate of imposition, the tax shall be computed on the combined total gross sales or receipts of the said two (2) or more related businesses. (c) In cases where a person conducts or operates two (2) or more businesses mentioned in Section 2A.01 of this Ordinance which are subject to different rates of imposition, the taxable gross sales or receipts of each business shall be reported independently and tax thereon shall be computed on the basis of the pertinent schedule. Section 2. Accrual of Payment. Unless specifically provided in this Article, the taxes imposed herein shall accrue on the first day of January of each year. Section 3. Time of Payment. The tax shall be paid once within the first twenty (20) days of January or in quarterly installments within the first twenty (20) days of January, April, July, and October of each year. The Sangguniang Bayan may, for a justifiable reason or cause, extend the time for payment of such taxes without surcharges or penalties, but only for a period not exceeding six (6) months. Section 4. Administrative Provisions. (a) Requirement. Any person who shall establish, operate or conduct any business, trade or activity mentioned in this Chapter in this municipality shall first obtain a Mayor’s Permit and pay the fee therefor and the business tax imposed under the pertinent Article. (b) Issuance and Posting of Official Receipt. The Municipal Treasurer shall issue an official receipt upon payment of the business tax. Issuance of the said official receipt shall not relieve the taxpayer of any requirement imposed by the different departments of this municipality. Every person issued an official receipt for the conduct of a business or undertaking shall keep the same conspicuously posted in plain view at the place of business or undertaking. If the individual has no fixed place of business or office, he shall keep the official receipt in his person. The receipt shall be produced upon demand by the Municipal Mayor, Municipal Treasurer, or their duly authorized representatives. (c) Invoices or Receipt. All persons subject to the taxes on business shall, for each sale or transfer of merchandise or goods, or for services rendered, valued at Twenty-Five Pesos (P 25.00) or more at any one time, prepare and issue sales or commercial invoices and receipts serially numbered in duplicate, showing among others, their names or styles, if any, and business address. The original of each sales invoice or receipts shall be issued to the purchaser or customer and the duplicate to be kept and preserved by the person subject to the said tax, in his place of business for a period of five (5) years. The receipts or invoices issued pursuant to the requirement of the Bureau of Internal Revenue for determination of national internal revenue taxes shall be sufficient for purposes of this Code. (d) Sworn Statement of Gross Receipts or Sales. Operators of business subject to the taxes on business shall submit a sworn statement of the capital investment before the start of their business operations and upon application for a Mayor’s permit to operate the business. Upon payment of the tax levied in this Chapter, any person engaged in business subject to the business tax paid based on gross sales and/or receipts shall submit a sworn statement of his gross sales/receipts for the preceding calendar year or quarter in such manner and form as may be prescribed by the Municipal Treasurer. Should the taxpayer fail to submit a sworn statement of gross sales or receipts, due among others to his failure to have a book of accounts, records or subsidiaries for his business, the Municipal Treasurer or his authorized representatives may verify or assess the gross sales or receipts of the taxpayer under the best available evidence upon which the tax may be based. (e) Submission of Certified Income Tax Return Copy. All persons who are granted a permit to conduct an activity or business and who are liable to pay the business tax provided in this Code shall submit a certified photocopy of their income tax returns (ITR) on or before April 30 of each year. The deficiency in the business tax arising out of the difference in gross receipts or sales declared in the application for Mayor’s Permit/ Declaration of gross sales or receipts and the gross receipts or sales declared in the ITR shall be payable on or before May 20 of the same year with interest at the rate of ten percent (10%) corresponding to the two percent (2%) per month from January to May. Payments of the deficiency tax made after May 20 shall be subject to the twenty-five percent (25%) surcharge and two percent (2%) interest for every month counted from January up to the month payment is made. (f) Issuance of Certification. The Municipal Treasurer may, upon presentation or satisfactory proof that the original receipt has been lost, stolen or destroyed, issue a certification to the effect that the business tax has been paid, indicating therein, the number of the official receipt issued, upon payment of a fee of ________Pesos (P____). (g) Transfer of Business to Other Location. Any business for which a municipal business tax has been paid by the person conducting it may be transferred and continued in any other place within the territorial limits of this municipality without payment of additional tax during the period for which the payment of the tax was made. (h) Retirement of Business. (1) Any person natural or juridical, subject to the tax on business under Article A, Chapter 11 of this Ordinance shall, upon termination of the business, submit a sworn statement of the gross sales or receipts for the current calendar year within thirty (30) days following the closure. Any tax due shall first be paid before any business or undertaking is fully terminated. For the purposes hereof, termination shall mean that business operations are stopped completely. Any change in ownership, management and/or name of the business shall not constitute termination as herein contemplated. Unless stated otherwise, assumption of the business by any new owner or manager or re-registration of the same business under a new name will only be considered by the LGU concerned for record purposes in the course of the renewal of the permit or license to operate the business. The Municipal Treasurer shall see to it that the payment of taxes of a business is not avoided by simulating the termination or retirement thereof. For this purpose., the following procedural guidelines shall be strictly followed: (a) The Municipal Treasurer shall assign every application for the termination or retirement of business to an inspector in his office who shall go to the address of the business on record to verify if it is really not operating. If the inspector finds that the business is simply placed under a new name,

manager and/or new owner, the Municipal Treasurer shall recommend to the Municipal Mayor the disapproval of the application of the termination or retirement of said business; (b) Accordingly, the business continues to become liable for the payment of all taxes, fees, and charges imposed thereon under existing local tax ordinance; and (c) In addition, in the case of a new owner to whom the business was transferred by sale or other form of conveyance, said new owner shall be liable to pay the tax or fee for the business and shall secure a new Mayor’s permit therefor.(2) In case it is found that the retirement or termination of the business is legitimate and the tax paid during the current year be less than the tax due for the current year based on the gross sales or receipts, the difference in the amount of the tax shall be paid before the business is considered officially retired or terminated.(3) The permit issued to a business retiring or terminating its operation shall be surrendered to the Local Treasurer who shall forthwith cancel the same and record such cancellation in his books.(i) Death of Licensee. When any individual paying a business tax dies, and the business is continued by a person interested in his estate, no additional payment shall be required for the residue of the term for which the tax was paid.

TITLE IV. Tax on Ambulant and Itinerant Amusement Operators

Section 1. Imposition of Tax. There is hereby imposed a tax on ambulant and itinerant amusement operators during fiestas and fairs at the following rates:

Circus, carnivals, or the like per day P 220.00Merry-Go-Round, roller coaster, ferris wheel, swing, shooting gallery and othersimilar contrivances per day P110.00

Sports contest/exhibitions per day P ______

Section 2. Time of Payment. The tax herein imposed shall be payable before engaging in such activity.

TITLE V. Tax on Mining Operations

Section 1. Definitions. When used in the Article.(a) Minerals refer to naturally occurring inorganic substances (found in nature) whether in solid, liquid, gaseous or any intermediate state.(b) Mineral Products shall mean things produced and prepared in a workable state by simple treat-ment processes such as washing or drying but without undergoing any chemical change or process or manufacturing by the lessee, concessionaire or owner of mineral lands.(c) Quarry Resources means any common stone or other common mineral substances such as but not restricted to marble, granite, volcanic cinders, basalt, tuff, and rock phosphate. Section 2. Imposition of Tax. There is hereby levied an annual tax at the rate of _______________ percent (____%) based on the gross receipts for the preceding year of mining operations. (The tax should not exceed 2% of the gross receipts during the preceding year.) Section 3. Situs of the Tax. Payment of the tax shall be made to this municipality which has jurisdiction over the mining area. In case the area transcends two (2) or more local government units, payment shall be made to the municipality having the largest area. Section 4. Exclusion. Extraction of the following are excluded from the coverage of the tax levied herein:(a) Mineral Products such as ordinary stones, sand, gravel, earth and other quarry resources;(b) Indigenous petroleum such as mineral oil, hydrocarbon gas, bitumen, crude asphalt, mineral gas and all other similar or naturally associated substances. Section 5. Time of Payment. The tax shall be paid once within the first twenty (20) days of January or in quarterly installments within the first twenty (20) days of January, April, July, and October of each year. Section 6. Administrative Provisions. (a) The Municipal Treasurer shall keep a registry of mining operators on which all instruments concerning mining rights, such as acquisition, sub-lease, operating agreements, transfers, assign-ments, condonment, cancellation and others, are recorded.(b) It shall be the duty of every lessee, owner, or operator to make a true and complete return setting forth the quantity and the actual market value of the minerals or mineral products or quarry resources to be removed.

TITLE VI. Tax on Forest Concessions and Forest Products

Section 1. Definitions of terms.(a) Forest Products means timber, pulp-wood/chipwood, firewood, fuel wood and minor forest products such as bark, tree tops, resins, gum, wood, oil, honey, beeswax, nipa, rattan or other for-est growth such as grass, shrub, and flowering plants, the associated water, fish, scenic, historical, recreational, and geologic resources in forest lands.(b) Forest Lands include the public forest, the permanent forest or the forest reserves, and forest reservations.

Section 2. Imposition of Tax. There is hereby imposed a tax on forest concessions and forest products at a rate of _______ percent (____%) of the annual gross receipts of the concessionaire during the preceding year. Section 3. Time of Payment The tax shall be paid once within the first twenty (20) days of January or in quarterly installments within the first twenty (20) days of January, April, July, and October of each year.

CHAPTER III. PERMIT AND REGULATORY FEES

TITLE I. Mayor’s Permit Fee on Business

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. The following permit fees shall be collected for the issuance of a permit by the Municipal Mayor to operate a business, pursue an occupationor calling, or undertake an activity within the municipality; to wit:

1) Owners or operators of amusement places/devices: a) Night/day clubs, supper clubs, cocktail lounges, P3,000.00 bars, disco houses, beer gardens, cabaret, dance hall. b) Social club/voluntary associations or organizations P1,000.00 c) Skating rinks P1,000.00 d) Bath Houses, resorts, steam baths, sauna baths P5,000.00 and the like e) Billiard balls/pools halls per table P 100.00 f) Circuses, carnivals, per house P2,000.00 g) Merry go-rounds, roller coasters, ferries wheels, P 100.00 swing, shooting galleries, or similar contrivances, per contrivance h) Theaters and Cinema houses P5,000.00 i) Boxing studio, auditoriums, gymnasiums, concert hall P3,000.00 or similar halls or establishments j) Race track establishments and cockpits P5,000.00 l) Amusement devices, per device 100.00

2) Financial institutions (Banks, pawnshops, insurance companies, lending investors, money shops) Main Office P5,000.00 Per Branch P2,000.00

3) Pre-Need companies (Memorial plans, educational, etc. Principal Office P2,000.00 Per branch P1,000.004) Subdivision Operators P5,000.005) Private cemeteries/memorial parks P5,000.006) Boarding Houses/Lodging Houses P 500.007) Dancing/Driving/Speed Reading Schools/EDP P1,000.008 Private Schools not regulated by DECS P1,000.009) Driving Ramps, Golf links, polo grounds P2,000.0010) Private Detective/Security agencies Principal Office P2,000.00 For every locality where security P 200.0011) For maintaining window/display office P 500.0012) Promoters, sponsors/talent scouts P 200.0013) For maintaining an office, such as liaison office, administrativeOffice and/or similar office with an area as follows: 400 sq.m. or more P1,000.00 300 sq.m. or more but less than 400 sq.m. 800.00 200 sq.m. or more but less than 300 sq.m. P 600.00 200 sq.m. or less P 500.0014) For operating private water refilling except those which P1,000.00Business is duly licensed in the municipality15) Cold Storage P1,000.0016) Lumber Yards P2,000.0017) Car Exchanges P1,000.0018) Storage and sell of flammable substances P1,000.0019) Business classified under Article A P5,000.00 Sec. 2A.02 paragraph a, b, & e20) Business classified under Article A P2,500.00 Sec. 2A.02 paragraph c exporter21) Business classified under Article A P1,000.00 Sec. 2A.02 paragraph d retailer22) Business classified under Article A P2,000.00 Sec. 2A.02 paragraph g (café, restaurant, etc)23) Lessors/sub-lessors; Real Estate dealers P3,000.00 Excluding subdivision operators



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24) Operators of privately owned public markets, P5,000.00 Shopping centers25) Dealers in fermented liquors/distilled spirits, P2,000.00 Tobacco26) Gun clubs & martial arts club and other similar P1,000.00 Establishment27) Fishponds, fish pens, etc. /pond/pen P1,000.0028) Golf links, polo grounds P5,000.0029) Refrigeration/cold storage P2,000.00 Section 2. Time and Manner of Payment. The fee for the issuance of a Mayor’s Permit shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer upon application before any business or undertaking can be lawfully begun or pursued and within the first twenty (20) days of January of each year in case of renewal thereof. For a newly-started business or activity that starts to operate after January 20, the fee shall be reckoned from the beginning of the calendar quarter. When the business or activity is abandoned, the fee shall not be exacted for a period longer than the end of the calendar quarter. if the fee has been paid for a period longer than the current quarter and the business activity is abandoned, no refund of the fee corresponding to the unexpired quarter or quarters shall be made. Section 3. Administrative Provisions.(a) Supervision and control over establishments and places. The Municipal Mayor shall supervise and regulate all establishments and places subject to the payment of the permit fee. He shall prescribe rules and regulations as to the mode or manner on which they shall be conducted in so far as may be necessary to maintain peaceful, healthy, and sanitary conditions in the municipality.(b) Application for Mayor’s Permit: False Statement. An application for a Mayor’s Permit shall be filed with the Office of the Municipal Mayor. The form for the purpose shall be issued by the same Office and shall set forth the requisite information including the name and residence of the applicant, the description of business or undertaking that is to be conducted, and such other data or information as may be required. 1. For a newly-started businessa. Location sketch of the new businessb. Paid-up capital of the business as shown in the Articles of Incorporation, if a corporation or partnership, or a sworn statement of the capital invested by the owner or operator, if a sole proprietorshipc. A certificate attesting to the tax exemption if the business is tax exemptd. Certification from the office in charge of zoning that the location of the new business is in ac-cordance with zoning regulationse. Tax clearance showing that the operator has paid all tax obligations in the municipalityf. Barangay clearanceg. Three (3) passport size pictures of the owner or operator or in cases of a partnership or corpora-tion the picture of the senior or managing partners and that of the President or General Managerh. Health certificate for all food handlers, and those required under Chapter IV, Art. D of this Revenue Code. 2. For renewal of existing business permitsa. Previous year’s Mayor’s permitb. ____________ ( ) copies of the annual or quarterly tax payments c. ____________ ( ) copies of all receipts showing payment of all regulatory fees as provided for in this Coded. Certificate of tax exemption form local taxes or fees, if exempt Upon submission of the application, it shall be the duty of the proper authorities to verify if other municipal requirements regarding the operation of the business or activity such as sanitary requirements, installation of power and light requirements, as well as other safety requirements are complied with. The permit to operate shall be issued only upon compliance with such safety requirements and after the payment of the corresponding inspection fees and other impositions required by this Revenue Code and other municipal tax ordinances. Any false statement deliberately made by the applicant shall constitute sufficient ground for denying or revoking the permit issued by the Mayor, and the applicant or licensee may be prosecuted in accordance with the penalties provided in this Article. A Mayor’s Permit shall be refused to (1) any person who previously violated any ordinance or regulation governing permits granted; (2) whose business establishment or undertaking does not conform with zoning regulations, and safety, health and other requirements of the municipality; (3) who has unsettled tax obligation, debt or other liability to the government; (4) who is disqualified under any provision of law or ordinance to establish or operate the business applied for. Likewise, a Mayor’s permit shall be denied to any person or applicant for a business who declares an amount of gross sales or receipts that are manifestly below industry standards or the Presumptive Income Level of gross sales or receipts as established in the municipality for the same or a closely similar type of activity or business.(c) Issuance of Permit; Contents of Permit. Upon approval of the application of a Mayor’s Permit, two (2) copies of the application duly signed by the Municipal Mayor shall be returned to the ap-plicant. One (1) copy shall be presented to the Municipal Treasurer as basis for the collection of the Mayor’s Permit fee and the corresponding business tax. The Mayor’s Permit shall be issued by the Municipal Mayor upon presentation of the receipt for the payment of the Mayor’s Permit and the official receipt issued by the Municipal Treasurer for the payment of the business tax. Every permit issued by the Mayor shall show the name and residence of the applicant, his nationality and marital status; nature of the organization, that is whether the business is a sole proprietorship, corporation or partnership, etc.; location of the business; date of issue and expiration of the permit; and other information as may be necessary. The Municipality shall, upon presentation of satisfactory proof that the original of the permit has been lost, stolen or destroyed, issue a duplicate of the permit upon the payment of One Hundred Fifty Pesos (P150.00).(d) Posting of Permit. Every permittee shall keep his permit conspicuously posted at all times in his place of business or office or if he has no place of business or office, he shall keep the permit in his person. The permit shall be immediately produced upon demand by the Municipal Mayor, the Municipal Treasurer or any of their duly authorized representatives.(e) Duration of Permit and Renewal. The Mayor’s Permit shall be granted for a period of not more than one (1) year and shall expire on the thirty-first (31st) of December following the date of issuance unless revoked or surrendered earlier. Every permit shall cease to be in force upon revocation or surrender thereof. The permit issued shall be renewed within the first twenty (20) days of January. It shall have a continuing validity only upon renewal thereof and payment of the corresponding fee.(f) Revocation of Permit. When a person doing business under the provisions of this Code violates any provision of this Article, refuses to pay an indebtedness or liability to the municipality or abuses his privilege to do business to the injury of the public moral or peace; or when a place where such business is established is being conducted in a disorderly or unlawful manner, is a nuisance, or is permitted to be used as a resort for disorderly characters, criminals or women of ill-repute, the Municipal Mayor may, after investigation, revoke the Mayor’s Permit. Such revocation shall operate to forfeit all sums which may have been paid in respect of said privilege, in addition to the fines and imprisonment that maybe imposed by the Court for violation of any provision of this Ordinance governing the establishment and maintenance of business, and to prohibit the exercise thereof by the person whose privilege is revoked, until restores by the Sangguniang Bayan. Section 4. Rules and Regulations on Certain Establishments.(a) On cafes, cafeterias, ice cream and other refreshment parlors, restaurants, soda fountain bars, carinderia or food caterers. No owner of said establishments shall employ any cook, or food dispenser without a Food Handler’s Certificate from the Municipal Health Officer, renewable every three (3) months. Establishments selling cooked and readily edible foods shall have them adequately covered and protected from dust, flies and other insects, and shall follow strictly the rules and regulations on sanitation promulgated by the Municipal Health Officer and existing laws or Ordinances. (a) Sauna bath, massage, barber and beauty shops. Said shops shall not be allowed to oper-ate with masseurs, barbers, and beauticians without having secured the necessary corresponding medical certificate from the Municipal Health Officer.

TITLE II. Permit Fee for Cockpits Owners/Operators/Licensees/Promoters and Cockpit Personnel

Section 1. Definitions. When used in this Article. (a) Cockpit includes any place, compound, building or portion thereof, where cockfights are held, whether or not money bets are made on the results of such cockfights. (b) Bet taker or Promoter refers to a person who alone or with another initiates a cockfight and/or calls and take care of bets from owners of both gamecocks and those of other bettors before he orders commencement of the cockfight thereafter distributes won bets to the winners after deducting a certain commission, or both. (c) Gaffer (taga-tari) refers to a person knowledgeable in the art of arming fighting cocks with gaffs on one or both legs. (d) Referee (Sentenciador) refers to a person who watches and oversees the proper gaffing of fighting cocks; determines the physical condition of gamecocks while cockfighting is in progress, the injuries sustained by the cocks and their capability to continue fighting, and decides and makes known his decision either by word or gesture the result of the cockfighting by announcing the winner or deciding a tie in a contest game. Section 2. Imposition of Fees. There shall be collected the following Mayor’s Permit Fees from cockpit operators/owners/licensees and cockpit personnel:a) From the owner/operator/licensees of the cockpit: 1. Application filing fee P 5,000.00 2. Annual cockpit permit fee 10,000.00b) From cockpit personnel 1. Promoters/Hosts 250.00 2. Pit Manager 150.00 3. Referee 150.00 4. Bet Taker “Kristo/Llamador” 150.00 5. Bet Manager “Maciador/Kasador” 150.00 6. Gaffer “Mananari” 150.00 7. Cashier 150.00 8. Derby (Matchmaker) 150.00

Section 3. Time and Manner of Payment.

(a) The application filing fee is payable to the Municipal Treasurer upon application for a permit or license to operate and maintain cockpits. (b) The annual cockpit permit fee is payable upon application for a permit before a cockpit shall be allowed to operate and within the first twenty days of January of each year in case of renewal thereof. (c) The permit fees on cockpit personnel shall be paid before they participate in a cockfight and shall be paid annually upon renewal of the permit on the birth month of the permittee.

Section 4. Administrative Provisions. (a) Ownership, operation and management of cockpit. Only Filipino citizens not otherwise inhibited by existing ordinances or laws shall be allowed to own, manage and operate cockpits. Cooperative capitalization is encouraged. (b) Establishment of cockpit. The Sangguniang Bayan shall determine the number of cockpits to be allowed in this municipality. (c) Cockpit-size and construction. Cockpits shall be constructed and operated within the appropri-ate areas as prescribed in the Zoning Law or ordinance. In the absence of such law or ordinance, the Municipal Mayor shall see to it that no cockpits are constructed within or near existing residential or commercial areas, hospitals, school buildings, churches or other public buildings. Owners, lessees, or operators of cockpits which are now in existence and do not conform to this requirement are required to comply with these provisions within a period to be specified by the Municipal Mayor. Approval or issuance of building permits for the construction of cockpits shall be made by the Municipal Engineer in accordance with existing ordinances, laws and practices. (d) Only duly registered and licensed promoters, referees, cashiers, bet managers, pit referees, bet takers, or gaffers shall take part in all kinds of cockfights held in this Municipality. No operator or owner of a cockpit shall employ or allow to participate in a cockfight any of the above-mentioned personnel unless he has registered and paid the fee herein required. (e) Upon payment of the fees herein imposed, the corresponding Mayor’s Permit shall be issued. Section 3B.05. Applicability Clause. The provision of PD 449, otherwise known as the Cockfight-ing Law of 1974, PD 1802 (Creating the Philippine Gamefowl Commission), and such other pertinent laws shall apply to all matters regarding the operation of cockpits and the holding of cockfights in this Municipality.

TITLE III. Special Permit Fee for Cockfighting

Section 1. Definitions. When used in this Article.(a) Cockfighting is the sport of pitting or evenly matching gamecocks to engage in an actual fight where bets on either side are laid. Cockfighting may also be formed as “cockfighting derby; pintakasi or tupada,” or its equivalent in different Philippine localities.(b) Local Derby is an invitational cockfight participated in by gamecockers or cockfighting “afficionados” of the Philippines with “pot money” awarded to the proclaimed winning entry.(c) International Derby refers to an invitational cockfight participated in by local and foreign gamecockers or cockfighting “afficionados” with “pot money” awarded to the proclaimed winning entry. Section 2. Imposition of Fees. There shall be collected the following fees per day for cockfight-ing: (a) Special Cockfights (Pintakasi) 1,500.00 (b) Special Derby Assessment from Promoters of - Two-Cock Derby 1,500.00 Three-Cock Derby 1,700.00 Four-Cock Derby 2,000.00 Five-Cock Derby 2,500.00 Section 3. Exclusions. Regular cockfights i.e., those held during Sundays, legal holidays and local fiestas and international derbies shall be excluded from the payment of fees herein imposed. Section 4. Time and Manner of Payment. The fees herein imposed shall be payable to the Municipal Treasurer before the special cockfights and derbies can be lawfully held. Section 5. Administrative Provisions. (a) Holding of cockfights. Except as provided in this Article, cockfighting shall be allowed in this mu-nicipality only in licensed cockpits during Sundays and legal holidays and during local fiestas for not more than three (3) days. It may also be held during municipal. Agricultural, commercial, or industrial fairs, carnival, or exposition for a similar period of three (3) days upon resolution of the Sangguniang Bayan. No cockfighting on the occasion of such affair, carnival or exposition shall be allowed within the month if a local fiesta or for more than two (2) occasions a year. No cockfighting shall be held on December 30 (Rizal Day), June 12 (Philippine Independence Day), November 30 (National Heroes Day), Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Election or Referendum Day and during Registration Days for such election or referendum.(b) Cockfighting for entertainment of tourists or for charitable purposes. Subject to the preceding subsection hereof, the holding of cockfights may also be allowed for the entertainment of foreign dig-nitaries or for tourists, or for returning Filipinos, commonly known as “Balikbayans”, or for the support of national fund-raising campaigns for charitable purposes as may be authorized upon resolution of the Sangguniang Bayan, in licensed cockpits or in playgrounds or parks. This privilege shall be extended for only one (1) time, for a period not exceeding three (3) days, within a year.(c) Cockfighting officials. Gaffers, referees, bet takers, or promoters shall not act as such in any cockfight in the municipality without first securing a license renewable every year on their birth month from the municipality where such cockfighting is held. Only gaffers, referees, bet takers, or promoters licensed by the municipality shall officiate in all kinds of cockfighting authorized herein. Section 6. Applicability Clause. The provision of PD 449, otherwise known as the Cockfight-ing Law of 1974, PD 1802 (Creating the Philippine Gamefowl Commission), and such other pertinent laws shall apply to all matters regarding the operation of cockpits and the holding of cockfights in this Municipality.

TITLE IV. Permit Fee on Pedaled Tricycle

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There shall be collected from the owner of pedaled tricycle oper-ated within the municipality, a permit fee of One hundred fifty pesos (P150.00) per annum. Section 2. Time of Payment. The fee imposed herein shall be due on the first day of January and payable to the Municipal Treasurer within the first twenty (20) days of January of every year. For pedaled tricycle acquired after the first twenty (20) days of January, the permit fee shall be paid without the penalty within the first twenty (20) days of the quarter following the date of purchase. Section 3. Administrative Provisions.(a) A sticker shall be provided to the owner of the pedaled tricycle granted a permit.(b) The Municipal Treasurer shall keep a register of all pedaled tricycles containing information such as the make and brand of the tricycle, the name and address of the owner and the number of the permit plate.

TITLE V. Fees on Impounding of Astray Animals

Section 1. Definitions. When used in this Article.(a) Astray Animal means an animal which is set loose unrestrained, and not under the complete control of its owner, or the charge or in possession thereof, found roaming at-large in public or private places whether fettered or not.(b) Public Place includes national, provincial, municipal, or barangay streets, parks, plazas, and such other places open to the public.(c) Private Place includes privately-owned streets or yards, rice fields or farmlands, or lots owned by an individual other than the owner of the animal.(d) Large Cattle includes horses, mules, asses, carabaos, cows, and other domestic members of the bovine family. Section 2. Imposition of Fee. There shall be imposed the following fees for each day or fraction thereof on each head of astray animal found running or roaming at large, or fettered in public or private places: Amount of Fee (a) Large Cattle P100.00 (b) All other animals 50.00

Section 3. Time of Payment. The impounding fee shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer prior to the release of the impounded animal to its owner. Section 4. Administrative Provisions.(a) For purposes of this Article, the Barangay Tanods of the Municipality are hereby authorized to apprehend and impound astray animals in the municipal corral or a place duly designated for such purpose. He shall also cause the posting of notice of the impounded astray animal in the Municipal Hall for five (5) consecutive days, starting one day after the animal is impounded, within which the owner is required to claim and establish ownership of the impounded animal. The Municipal Mayor and Municipal Treasurer shall be informed of the impounding.(b) Impounded animals not claimed within five (5) days after the date of impounding shall be sold at public auction under the following procedures: 1. The Municipal Treasurer shall post notice for five (5) days in three (3) places including the main door of the Municipal Hall and the public markets. The animal shall be sold to the highest bidder. Within three (3) days after the auction sale, the Municipal Treasurer shall make a report of the proceedings in writing to the Municipal Mayor. 2. The owner may stop the sale by paying at any time before or during the auction sale, the impounding fees due and the cost of the advertisement and conduct of sale to the Municipal Treasurer, otherwise, the sale shall proceed. 3. The proceeds of the sale shall be applied to satisfy the cost of impounding, advertisement and conduct of sale. The residue over these costs shall accrue to the General Fund of the Municipality. 4. In case the impounded animal is not disposed of within the five (5) days from the date of notice of public auction, the same shall be considered sold to the Municipal Government for the amount equivalent to the poundage fees due. Section 5. Penalty. Owners whose animals are caught astray and incurring damages to plants and properties shall pay the following fines: (a) First offense P 100.00 per day (b) Second offense 200.00 per day (c) For the third offense and each subsequent offense 300.00 per day In addition to the fine, the owners shall pay the amount of damage incurred, if any, to the property owner.

TITLE VI. Cart or Sledge Registration Fee

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There shall be collected a registration fee of One hundred fifty pesos (P150.00) per annum for each animal drawn cart or sledge used in the Municipality of Tubod, Lanao del Norte which shall be registered with the Office of the Municipal Treasurer. Section 2. Time and Manner of Payment. The fee imposed herein shall be due and payable

within the first twenty (20) days of January of every year. For each cart or sledge newly acquired after the first twenty (20) days of January, the permit shall be paid without penalty within the first twenty (20) days of the quarter following the date of purchase. Section 3. Administrative Provisions.(a) A metal plate with a corresponding registry number shall be provided by the Municipal Treasurer for every calesa or sledge at cost to the owner.(b) The Municipal Treasurer shall keep a register of all carts or sledges which shall set forth, among others, the name and address of the owner.

TITLE VII. Permit Fee on Caretela or Calesa

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There shall be collected a permit fee of One hundred fifty pesos (P150.00) per annum for each calesa or caretela used in the Municipality of Tubod, Lanao del Norte which shall be registered with the Office of the Municipal Treasurer. Section 2. Time and Manner of Payment. The fee imposed herein shall be due and payable upon application for a Mayor’s Permit within the first twenty (20) days of January of each year. For newly acquired calesas or caretelas, the fee shall be payable within twenty (20) days after acquisition. Section 3. Administrative Provisions.(a) A metal plate shall be provided by the Municipal Treasurer for every registered caretela or calesa.(b) The Municipal Treasurer shall keep a register of all calesas or caretelas which shall contain, among others, the name and the address of the owner.

TITLE VIII. Permit Fee on Circus and Other Parades

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There shall be collected a Mayor’s Permit Fee of Three Hundred Fifty Pesos (P300.00) per day on every circus and other parades using banners, floats or musical instruments carried on in this municipality. Section 2. Time and Manner of Payment. The fee imposed herein shall be due and payable to the Municipal Treasurer upon application for a permit to the Municipal Mayor at least one (1) day before the scheduled date of the circus or parade and on such activity shall be held. Section 3. Exemption. Civic and military parades as well as religious processions shall not be required to pay the permit fee imposed in this Article. Section 4. Administrative Provisions.(a) Any persons who shall hold a parade within this municipality shall first obtain from the Municipal Mayor before undertaking the activity. For this purpose, a written application in a prescribed form shall indicate the name, address of the applicant, the description of the activity, the place or places where the same will be conducted and such other pertinent information as may be required.(b) The Station Commander of the Philippine National Police shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations to maintain an orderly and peaceful conduct of the activities mentioned in this Article. He shall also define the boundary within which such activities may be lawfully conducted.

TITLE VIX. Registration and Transfer Fees on Large Cattle. Section 1. Definition. For purposes of this Article, “large cattle” includes an eight months (8) old horse, mule ass, carabao, cow or other domesticated member of the bovine family. Section 2. Imposition of Fee. The owner of a large cattle is hereby required to register said cattle with the Municipal Treasurer for which a certificate of ownership shall be issued to the owner upon payment of a registration fee as follows: Amount of Fee a) For Certificate of Ownership P 50.00 b) For Certificate of Transfer 50.00 c) For Registration of Private Brand 50.00 The transfer fee shall be collected only once if a large cattle is transferred more than once in a day. Section 3. Time and Manner of Payment. The registration fee shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer upon registration or transfer of ownership of the large cattle. Section 4. Administrative Provisions.(a) Large cattle shall be registered with the Municipal Treasurer upon reaching the age of two (2) years.(b) The ownership of a large cattle or its sale or transfer of ownership to another person shall be registered with the Municipal Treasurer. All branded and counter-branded large cattle presented to the Municipal Treasurer shall be registered in a book showing among others, the name and residence of the owner, the consideration or purchase price of the animal in cases of sale or transfer, and the class, color, sex, brands and other identification marks of the cattle. These data shall also be stated in the certificate of ownership issued to the owner of the large cattle.(c) The transfer of the large cattle, regardless of its age, shall be entered in the registry book setting forth, among others, the names and the residence of the owners and the purchaser; the consideration or purchase price of the animal for sale or transfer, class, sex, brands and other identifying marks of the animals; and a reference by number to the original certificate of ownership with the name of the municipality issued to it.No entries of transfer shall be made or certificate of transfer shall be issued by the Municipal Treasurer except upon the production of the original certificate of ownership and certificates of transfer and such other documents that show title to the owner. Section 5. Applicability Clause. All other matters relating to the registration of large cattle shall be governed by the pertinent provisions of the Revised Administrative Code and other applicable laws, ordinances and rules and regulations.

TITLE X. Permit Fee for Excavation

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. The following fees and charges shall be collected from any person, firm or corporation whether private or government except those specifically exempted by law which shall make or cause to be made any excavation or digging on private or public roads, streets and thoroughfares, including passageway and sidewalks or to dig to make sources of water supply within the municipality. Amount of Fee a) Processing Fee 1. For pole and house connection 50.00 2. For digging water 100.00 3. For all other excavation 200.00 b) Excavation Permit Fee: 1. For 50 lineal meter or less 200.00 2. In excess of 50 lineal meters 2.00/m 3. For drilling wells: a. For 2 inch pipes: First 400 feet 100.00 In excess of 400 feet, per foot 1.00 b. For 3 inches pipes: First 400 feet 150.00 In excess of 400 feet, per foot 1.50 c. For 4 inches pipes: First 400 feet 200.00 In excess of 400 feet, per foot 2.00 d. For 5 inches pipes or over-sized pipes: First 400 feet 250.00 Over 400 feet, per foot 2.50 C. Installation of wooden, concrete and steel utility Poles, excavation permit fee or pole. 50.00

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Section 2. Time and Manner of Payment. The fee imposed herein shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer by every person who shall make any excavation or cause any excavation to be made upon application for Mayor’s Permit, but in all cases, prior to the excavation. A cash deposit in an amount equal to the cost of replenishment of excavated structure as of-ficially estimated by the Building Official shall be deposited with the Municipal Treasurer at the same time the permit is paid. The cash deposit shall be forfeited in favor of the Municipal Government in case the restoration to its original form of the street excavated is not made within fifteen (15 ) days after the purpose of the excavation is accomplished. Section 3. Administrative Provisions.(a) No person shall undertake or cause to undertake any digging or excavation, of any part or portion of the municipal streets of Tubod, Lanao del Norte unless a permit shall have been first secured from the Office of the Municipal Mayor specifying the duration of the excavation.(b) The Municipal Engineer/Municipal Building Official shall supervise the digging and excavation and shall determine the necessary width of the streets to be dug or excavated. Said official shall likewise inform the Municipal Treasurer of any delay in the completion of the excavation work for purposes of collection of the additional fee.(c) In order to protect the public from any danger, appropriate signs must be placed in the area where work is being done.

TITLE XI. Fee for Sealing and Licensing of Weights and Measures

Section 1. Implementing Agency. The Municipal Treasurer shall strictly enforce the provisions of the Regulation of Practices Relative to Weights and Measures, as provided in Chapter II of the Consumer Act, Republic Act No. 7394. Section 2. Sealing and Testing of Instruments of Weights and Measures. - All instruments for determining weights and measures in all consumer and consumer related transactions shall be tested, calibrated and sealed every six (6) months by the official sealer who shall be Municipal Treasurer or his duly authorized representative upon payment of fees required under this Article: Provided, That all instruments of weights and measures shall continuously be inspected for compliance with the provisions of this Article. Section 3. Imposition of Fees. Every person before using instruments of weights and measures within this municipality shall first have them sealed and licensed annually and pay therefore to the Municipal Treasurer the following fees: Amount of Fee

a) For sealing linear metric measures : P Not over one (1) meter 20.00 Measure over one (1) meter 25.00 b) For sealing metric measures of capacity:



ORDINANCE

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Not over ten (10) liters 20.00 Over ten (10) liters 25.00 c) For sealing metric instruments of weights: With capacity of not more than 30 kg. 200.00 With capacity of more than 30 kg. But not more than 300 kg. 250.00 With capacity of more than 300 kg. but not more than 3,000 kg 300.00 With capacity of more than 3,000 kg. 500.00 d) For sealing apothecary balances of precision (calibration) 150.00 e) For sealing scale or balance with complete set of weights: For each scale or balances or other balances with complete set of weights for use therewith 100.00 f) For sealing of gasoline, diesel, or oil pumps; Per pump Sticker Subject for inspection every quarter 1,000.00 At cost Section 4. Payment of Fees and Surcharge. The fees herein imposed shall be paid and collected by the Municipal Treasurer when the weights or measures instruments are sealed, before their use and thereafter, on or before the anniversary date thereof. The official receipt serving as license to use the instrument is valid for one (1) year from the date of sealing unless such instrument becomes defective before the expiration period. Failure to have the instrument re-tested and the corresponding fees therefor paid within the prescribed period shall subject the owner or user to a surcharge of five hundred percent (500%) of the prescribed fees which shall no longer be subject to interest. Section 5. Place of Payment. The fees herein levied shall be paid in the municipality where the business is conducted by persons conducting their business therein. A peddler or itinerant vendor using only one (1) instrument of weight or measure shall pay the fee in the municipality where he maintains his residence. Section 6. Exemptions.(a) All instruments for weights and measures used in government work of or maintained for public use by any instrumentality of the government shall be tested and sealed free.(b) Dealers of weights and measures instruments intended for sale. Section 7. Administrative Provisions.(a) The official receipt for the fee issued for the sealing of a weight or measure shall serves as a license to use such instrument for one year from the date of sealing, unless deterioration or damage renders the weight or measure inaccurate within that period. The license shall expire on the day and the month of the year following its original issuance. Such license shall be preserved by the owner and together with the weight or measure covered by the license, shall be exhibited on demand by the Municipal Treasurer or his deputies.(b) The Municipal Treasurer is hereby required to keep full sets of secondary standards, which shall be compared with the fundamental standards in the Department of Science and Technology annually. When found to be sufficiently accurate, the secondary standards shall be distinguished by label, tag or seal and shall be accompanied by a certificate showing the amount of its variation from the fundamental standards. If the variation is of sufficient magnitude to impair the utility of instrument, it shall be destroyed at the Department of Science and technology.(c) The Municipal Treasurer or his deputies shall conduct periodic physical inspection and test weights and measures instruments within the locality.(d) Instruments of weights and measures found to be defective and such defect is beyond repair shall be confiscated in favor of the government and shall be destroyed by the Municipal Treasurer in the presence of the Provincial Auditor or his representative. Section 8. Fraudulent Practices Relative to Weights and Measures The following acts related to weights and measures are prohibited: a) for any person other than the official sealer or his duly authorized representative to place an official tag, seal, sticker, mark, stamp, brand or other characteristic sign used to indicate that such instrument of weight and measure has officially been tested, calibrated, sealed or inspected;b) for any person to imitate any seal, sticker, mark stamp, brand, tag or other characteristic design used to indicate that such instrument of weight or measure has been officially tested, calibrated, sealed or inspected;c) for any person other than the official sealer or his duly authorized representative to alter in any way the certificate or receipt given by the official sealer or his duly authorized representative as an acknowledgement that the instrument for determining weight or measure has been fully rested, calibrated, sealed or inspected;d) for any person to make or knowingly sell or use any false or counterfeit seal, sticker, brand, stamp, tag, certificate or license or any dye for printing or making the same or any characteristic sign used to indicate that such instrument of weight or measure has been officially tested, calibrated, sealed or inspected;e) for any person other than the official sealer or his duly authorized representative to alter the writ-ten or printed figures, letters or symbols on any official seal, sticker, receipt, stamp, tag, certificate or license used or issued;f) for any person to use or reuse any restored, altered, expired, damaged stamp, tag certificate or license for the, purpose of making it appear that the instrument of weight or measure has been tested, calibrated, sealed or inspected;g) for any person engaged in the buying and selling of consumer products or of furnishing services the value of which is estimated by weight or measure to possess, use or maintain with intention to use any scale, balance, weight or measure that has not been sealed or if previously sealed, the license therefor has expired and has not been renewed in due time;h) for any person to fraudulently alter any scale, balance, weight or measure after it is officially sealed;i) for any person to knowingly use any false scale, balance, weight or measure, whether sealed or not;j) for any person to fraudulently give short weight or measure in the making of a scale;k) for any person, assuming to determine truly the weight or measure of any article brought or sold by weight or measure, to fraudulently misrepresent the weight or measure thereof; orl) for any person to procure the commission of any such offense abovementioned by another. Instruments officially sealed at some previous time which have remained unaltered and accurate and the seal or tag officially affixed therein remains intact and in the same position and condition in which it was placed by the official sealer or his duly authorized representative shall, if presented for sealing, be sealed promptly on demand by the official sealer or his duly authorized representative without penalty except a surcharge equal to two (2) times the regular fee fixed by law for the sealing of an instrument of its class, this surcharge to be collected and accounted for by the Municipal Treasurer in the same manner as the regular fees for sealing such instruments. Section 9. Penalties(a) Any person who shall violate the provisions of paragraphs (a) to (f) and paragraph (l) of Section 3K.06 shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than Two hundred pesos (P200.00) but not more than One thousand pesos (P1,000.00) or by imprisonment of not more than one (1) year, or both, upon the discretion of the court.(b) Any person who shall violate the provisions of paragraph (g) of Section 3K.06 for the first time shall be subject to fine of not less than Five hundred pesos (P500.00) or by imprisonment of not less than one (1) month but not more than five (5) years, or both, upon the discretion of the court.(c) The owner-possessor or user of instrument of weights and measure enumerated in paragraph (h) to (k) of Section 3K.06 shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than Three hundred pesos (P300.00) or imprisonment not exceeding one (1) year, or both, upon the discretion of the court.. [This Article has updated to conform to the provisions of the Consumer Act of 1992, Republic Act No. 7394.]

TITLE XII. Permit Fee on Film-Making

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There shall be collected the following permit fee from any person who shall go on location-filming within the territorial jurisdiction of this municipality.

Rate of Fee Per Filming a. Commercial movies 3,000.00/film b. Commercial advertisements 2,000.00/film c. Documentary film 1,000.00/film d. Videotape coverage 500.00/coverage In cases of extension of filming time, the additional amount required must be paid prior to extension to filming time. Section 2. Time of Payment. The fee imposed herein shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer upon application for the Mayor’s Permit at least one (1 ) day before location-filming is commenced.

TITLE XIII. Permit Fee for Agricultural Machinery and Other Heavy Equipment Section 1. Imposition of Fees. There shall be collected an annual permit fee at the following rates for each agricultural machinery or heavy equipment operating within the Municipality of Tubod, Lanao del Norte.

Rate of Fee Per Annuma. Handtractors 200.00b. Light Tractors 300.00c. Heavy Tractors 1,000.00d. Bulldozer 1,000.00e. Forklift 1,000.00f. Heavy Graders 1,000.00g. Light Graders 500.00h. Mechanized Threshers 500.00i. Manual Threshers 200.00j. Cargo Truck (Hauler) 1,000.00k. Cargo Truck (6 wheeler) 500.00l. Dump Truck (10 wheeler) 1,000.00m. Dump Truck (mini) 500.00n. Road Rollers (heavy) 1,000.00o. Road Rollers (light) 500.00p. Payloader 2,000.00

q. Primemovers/Flatbeds 500.00r. Backhoe 1,000.00s. Rockcrusher 1,000.00t. Batching Plant 500.00u. Transit/Mixer Truck 2,000.00v. Crane 1,000.00w. Other agricultural machinery or heavy equipment not enumerated above 500.00 Section 2. Time and Manner of Payment. The fee imposed herein shall be payable upon ap-plication for a Mayor’s permit. Section 3. Administrative Provisions. The Municipal Treasurer shall keep a registry of all heavy equipment and agricultural machinery which shall include the make and brand of the heavy equipment and agricultural machinery and name and address of the owner.

TITLE XIV. Permit Fees on Tricycle Operation

Section 1. Definitions. When used in this Article, (a) Motorized Tricycle is a motor vehicle propelled other than by muscular power, composed of a motorcycle fitted with a single wheel sidecar or a motorcycle with a two wheeled cab, the former having a total of four wheels, otherwise known as the motorela.(b) Tricycle Operators are persons engaged in the business of operating tricycles.(c) Tricycle-for-Hire is a vehicle composed of a motorcycle fitted with a single-wheel side car or a motorcycle with a two-wheel cab operated to render transport services to the general public for a fee.(d) Motorized Tricycle Operator’s Permit (MTOP) is a document granting franchise or license to a person, natural or juridical, allowing him to operate tricycles-for-hire over specified zones.(e) Zone is a contiguous land area or block, say a subdivision or barangay, where tricycles-for-hire may operate without a fixed origin and destination. Section 2. Imposition of Fees. There shall be collected an annual fee in the amount of One Hundred Pesos (P100.00) for the operation of tricycle-for-hire. [The annual franchise fee should cover the cost of regulation and surveillance, plus the estimated annual business tax that the operator would pay for each unit. The integration of tax and regulatory fee simplifies tax administration and tax compliance. Other fees on tricycle operations:1. Filing Fee a. For one (1) to five (5) units P 150.00 b. Supervision Fee P 40.00 c. Legal Research P 10.002. Fare adjustment fee for fare increase 100.003. Filing fee for amendment of MTOP 200.00 Section 3.Time of Payment. (a) The fee shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer upon application or renewal of the permit with the submission of the following requirements: 1. 3 pcs. Stencil of Chassis Number 2. 3 pcs. Stencil Motor Number 3. 3 pcs. Photocopies of Official Receipt of the Registration 4. 3 pcs. Photocopies of the Absolute Deed of Sale(b) The filing fee shall be paid upon application for an MTOP based on the number of units.(c) Filing fee for amendment of MTOP shall be paid upon application for transfer to another zone, change of ownership of unit or transfer of MTOP. Section 4. Administrative Provisions.(a) Prospective operators of tricycles should first secure a Motorized Tricycle Operator’s permit (MTOP) from the Sangguniang Bayan.(b) The Sangguniang Bayan of this municipality shall: 1. Issue, amend, revise, renew, suspend, or cancel MTOP and prescribe the appropriate terms and conditions therefor; determine, fix, prescribe or periodically adjust fares or rates for the service provided in a zone after public hearing; prescribe and regulate zones of service in coordination with the barangay; fix, impose and collect, and periodically review and adjust but not oftener than once every two (2) years, reasonable fees and other related charges in the regulation of tricycles-for-hire; and establish and prescribe the conditions and qualifications of service. 2. Only Filipino citizens and partnership or corporation with sixty percent (60%) Filipino equity shall be granted the MTOP. No MTOP shall be granted by the municipality unless the applicant is in possession of units with valid registration papers form the Land Transportation Office (LTO). 3. The grantee of the MTOP shall carry a common carriers insurance sufficient to answer for any liability it may incur to passengers and third parties in case of accidents; 4. Operators of tricycles-for-hire shall employ drivers duly licensed by LTO for tricycles-for-hire. 5. Operators who intend to stop service completely, or suspend service for more than one (1) month shall report in writing such termination or suspension to the Sangguniang Bayan; 6. Tricycle operators are prohibited to operate on national highways utilized by 4-wheel vehicles greater than four (4) tons and where normal speed exceed forty (40) KPH. The Sangguniang Bayan may provide exceptions if there is no alternative route. 7. Tricycles-for-hire shall be allowed to operate like a taxi service, i.e., service is rendered upon demand and without a fixed route within a zone.(c) The Sangguniang Bayan may impose a common color for tricycles for hire in the same zone. Each tricycle unit shall be assigned and bear an identification number, aside from its LTO license plate number. It shall establish a fare structure that will provide the operator a reasonable return or profit, and still be affordable to the general public. The fare structure may either be flat (single fare regardless of distance) as a minimum amount plus a basic rate per kilometer. The official rate to be initially adopted shall be a minimum fee of _________ Pesos (P______) plus ___________ centavos (P0.____) per km. in excess of four (4.0) km. distance pending the enactment of the prescribed fare structure for the zone by the Sangguniang Bayan. Operators of tricycles-for-hire are required to post in the conspicuous part of the tricycle the schedule of fares.(d) The zones must be within the boundaries of this municipality. The existing zones which covers the territorial unit not only of the municipality but other adjoining municipalities or cities as well shall be maintained provided the operators serving the said zone secure the MTOP.

(e) For the purpose of this Article, a Municipal Tricycle Operator’s Permit Regulatory Board is hereby as follows: ______________________ Chairman ______________________ ________________________ ______________________ ________________________

(f) The Municipal Treasurer shall keep a registry of all tricycle operators which shall include among others, the name and address of the operator and the number and brand of tricycles owned and operated by said operator.

TITLE XV. Permit Fee on Occupation/Calling Not Requiring Government Examination

Section 1. Imposition of Fee - There shall be collected as annual fee at the rate prescribed hereunder for the issuance of Mayor’s Permit to every person who shall be engaged in the practice of the occupation or calling not requiring government examination with the municipality as follows: Occupation or Calling Rate of Fee/Annum

a) On employees and workers in generally Considered “Offensive and Dangerous Business Establishments P 100.00 b) On employees and workers in commercial establishments who cater or attend to the daily needs of the inquiring or paying public 100.00 c) On employees and Workers in food or eatery establishment 100.00 d) On employees and workers in night or night and day establishment 100.00

e) All occupation or calling subject to periodic inspection, surveillance and /or regulations by the Mu-nicipal Mayor, like animal trainer, auctioneer, barber, bartender, beautician, bondsman, bookkeeper, butcher, blacksmith, carpenter, carver, chambermaid, cook, criminologist, electrician, electronic technician, club/floor manager. Forensic electronic expert, fortune teller, hair stylist, handwriting expert, hospital attendant, lifeguard, magician, make-up artist, manicurist, masonry worker, masseur, attendant mechanic, certified “hilot”, painter, musician, pianist, photographer (itinerant), professional boxer, private ballistic expert, rig driver (cochero), taxi, dancer, stage-performer salesgirl, sculptor, waiter or waitress and welder 100.00 Section 2. Exemption - All professionals who are subject to the Provincial Tax imposition pursuant to Section 139 of the Local Government Code; and government employees are exempted from payment of this fee. Section 3. Person Governed- The following workers or employees whether working on temporary or permanent basis, shall secure the individual Mayor’s Permit prescribed herewith;(a) Employees or workers in generally considered offensive and dangerous business establishment such as but not limited to the following:(1) Employees or workers in industrial or manufacturing establishment such as: Aerated water and soft drink factories; air rifle and pellets manufacturing; battery charging shops, blacksmith; breweries; candy and confectionery factories; canning factories; coffee cocoa and tea factories; cosmetics and toiletries factories; cigar and cigarette factories; construction and / or repair shops of motor vehicles; carpentry shop; drug manufacturing; distillers, edible oil or lard factories; electric bulbs or neon lights factories; electric plant, electronics manufacturing; oxidizing plants; food and flour mills; fish curing and drying shops; footwear factories, foundry shops; furniture manufacturing; garments manufacturing, general building and other construction jobs during the period of construction; glass and glassware factories; handicraft manufacturing; hollow block and tile factories; Ice plants; milk, ice cream and other allied products factories; metal closure manufacturing; iron steel plants; leather and leatherette factories; machine shops, match factories, paints and allied products manufacturing; plastic products factories, perfume factories; plating establishment; pharmaceutical laboratories, repair shops of whatever kind and nature; rope and twine factories; sash factories; smelting plants; tanneries; textile and knitting mills; upholstery shops; vulcanizing shops and welding shops.(2) Employees and workers in commercial establishments cinematography film storage; cold storage’s or refrigerating plants; delivery and messengerial services; elevator and escalator services; funeral parlors; janitorial services; junks shop; hardwares; pest control services; printing and publishing houses; service station; slaughter- houses; textile stores; warehouses; and parking lots.(3) Employees and workers on other industrial and manufacturing firms or commercial establishments who are normally exposed to excessive heat, light, noise, cold and other environmental factors which endanger their physical and health well-being.

(a) Employees and workers in commercial establishment who generally enter or attend to the daily needs of the general public such as but not limited to the following: Employees and workers in drugstores; department stores; groceries supermarkets; beauty saloons; tailor shops; dress shop; bank teller; receptionist, receiving clerk in paying outlets of public utilities corporation, except trans-portation companies; and other commercial establishment whose employees and workers attend to the daily needs of the inquiring o paying public.(c) Employees and workers in food or eatery establishments such as but not limited to the following: (1) Employees and workers in canteen, carinderia, catering services, bakeries, ice cream or ice milk factories, refreshment parlor, restaurants, sari-sari stores, and soda fountains; (2) Stallholders, employees and workers in public markets; (3) Peddlers of cook or uncooked foods; (4) All other food peddlers, including peddlers of seasonal merchandise.(d) Employees or workers in night or night and day establishments such as but not limited to the following: Workers or employees in bars; boxing stadium; bowling alleys; billiards and pool halls; cinema houses; cabarets and dance halls; cocktail lounges; circuses; carnivals and the like; day clubs and night clubs; golf clubs; massage clinics, sauna baths or similar establishment; hotels; motels; horse racing clubs; pelota courts; polo clubs; private detective or watchman security agencies; supper clubs and all other business establishment whose business activities are performed and consumed during night time. In cases of night and day clubs, night clubs, day clubs, cocktail lounges, bars, cabarets, sauna bath houses and other similar places of amusements, they shall under no circumstances allow hostesses, waitress, waiters, entertainers, or hospitality girl below 18 years of age to work as such. For those who shall secure the Individual Mayor’s Permit on their 18th birth year, they shall present their respective baptismal or birth certificate duly issued by the local civil registrar concerned.(e) All other employees and persons who exercise their profession, occupation or calling within the jurisdiction limits of the Municipality aside from those already specifically mentioned in Section P.02. Section 4. Time and Manner of Payment. The fees prescribed in this Article shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer this municipality upon filing of the application for the first time and annually thereafter within the first twenty (20) days of January and every quarter thereafter. The permit fee is payable for every separate or district occupation or calling engaged in. Employer shall advance the fees to the Municipality for its employees. Section 5. Surcharge for Late Payment. Failure to pay the fee prescribed in this Article within the time prescribed shall subject a taxpayer to a surcharge of Twenty-five percent (25%) of the original amount of the fee due, such surcharge shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner as the tax due. In case of change of ownership of the business as well as the location thereof from municipality to another, it shall be the duty of the new owner, agent or manager of such business to secure a new permit as required in this Article and pay the corresponding permit fee as though it were new business. Newly hired workers and / or employees shall secure their individual Mayor’s Permit from the moment they are actually accepted by the management of any business or industrial establishment to starts working. The individual Mayor’s Permit so secured shall be renewed during the respective birth month of the permittee next following calendar. Section 6. Administrative Provisions.(a) The Municipal Treasurer shall keep a record of persons engaged in occupation and /or calling not requiring government examination and the corresponding payment of fees required under personal data for reference purpose.(b) Persons engaged in the above mentioned occupation or calling with valid Mayor’s Permit shall be required to surrender such permit and the corresponding Official Receipt for the payment of fees to the Municipal Treasurer and to the Municipal Mayor respectively for cancellation upon retirement or cessation of the practice of the said occupation or calling.

TITLE XVI. Building Permit

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There shall be collected from each applicant for a building permit fees pursuant to Department Order 155, Series of 1992 dated September 25, 1992 of the Department of Public Works and Highways.

Filing Fee: Commercial Building One (1) storey and above P385.00

Residential Building Two (2) storey and above P275.00 One (1) storey 250.00 One (1) storey (Indigenous Dwelling) 220.00

For New Installations: Mayor’s Permit P165.00 Area computation at 2.00/sq.m. Inspection Fees: 1. Poblacion - up to 5 lightings only P165.00 More than 5 lightings 220.00 P2.00/amperes 2. Tangueguiron – 4.000 km. 165.00 3. Kakai-Renabor – 4.500 km. 165.00 4. San Antonio - 3.000 km. 165.00 5. Pigcarangan - 3.000 km. 165.00 6. Bulod - 2.200 km. 165.00 7. Tubaran - 6.000 km. 193.00 8. Pualas - 8.000 km. 193.00 9. Patudan - 7.000 km. 193.00 10. Kalilangan - 9.000 km. 193.00 11. Pinpin - 10.000 km. 220.00 12. Santo Ninio - 12.500 km. 220.00 13. Taden - 12.000 km. 220.00 14. Malingao - 12.000 km. 220.00 15. Candis - 13.000 km. 220.00 16. Camp 5 - 14.000 km. 248.00 17. Caniogan - 14.000 km. 248.00 18. Baracanas - 15.000 km. 248.00 19. Licapao - 13.500 km. 248.00 20. Bualan - 17.000 km. 275.00 21. Dalama - 22.000 km. 275.00 22. Taguranao - 21.000 km. 275.00 23. Baris - 17.000 km. 275.00 24. Palao - 21.500 km. 275.00

Section 2. Time and Payment. The fees specified under this article shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer upon application for a building permit from the Municipal Mayor. Section 3. Administrative Provisions. The application for the construction and or repair shall be in writing and shall set forth the required information, such as the location and the general dimension of the building and/or other infrastructure of the owners as well as that of the architecture or engineer who draw the plan, an estimate of the entire cost of proposed work, and the following:a. A copy of the plan showing the location of the building to be constructed with the reference boundaries of the lot and is constructed in the town proper or poblacion.b. General drawing showing: b.1 Floor and roof plans b.2 Foundation and footing plans b.3 Transferee and longitudinal plan b.4 Elevation b.5 Framing plans showing complete forming of the building or structure b.6 Isometric view of plumbing layout b.7 Electrical layout, and b.8 Detail of structure and architectural parts.

Section 4. Implementing Rules and Regulations. In the implementation of the provisions of the Building Code and the IRR, the Mayor shall formulate necessary rules and regulations and adopt design and construction standards and criteria for buildings and other structures. Such standards, rules and regulations shall take effect after their publication of a local newspaper. Section 5. Administrative Fines(Pursuant to the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Building Code of the Philippines(PD1096) 1. Imposition of Administrative Fines(Pursuant to the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Building Code of the Philippines(PD1096)a. The Mayor or his duly authorized representative may prescribed and impose fines not exceed-ing ten thousand (Php10,000.00) in the following cases, subject to the items and procedures as hereunder provided: i. Erecting, constructing, altering, repairing, moving, converting, installing or demolishing a private or public building/structure if without building/demolition permit. ii. Making any alteration, addition, conversion or repair in any building/structure/appurtenances thereto constructed or installed before the adoption of the Code, whether public or private, without permit. iii. Unauthorized change, modification or alteration during the construction in the duly submitted plans and specifications on which the building permit is based. iv. Non-compliance with the work stoppage order or notice and/or orders to effect necessary correction in plans and specifications found defective. v. Non-compliance with order to demolish building/structure declared to be nuisance, ruinous or dangerous. vi. Use or occupancy of a building/structure without Certificate of Occupancy/Use even if constructed under a valid building permit. vii. Change in the existing use or occupancy classification of a building/structure or portion thereof without the corresponding Certificate of Change of Use. viii. Failure to post or display the certificate of occupancy/use/operation in a conspicuous place on the premise of the building/structure/appurtenances.



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ix. Change in the type of construction of any building/structure without an amendatory permit.b. In addition to the imposed penalty, the owner shall correct/remove his violations of the provi-sions of the Code. 2. Determination of Amount of Finesa. In the determination of the amount of fines to be imposed, violation shall be classified as follows: i. Light Violations (a) Failure to post Certificate of Occupancy/Use/Operation (b) Failure to post Building Permit construction information sign (c) Failure to provide or install appropriate safety measures for the protection of workers, inspectors, visitors, immediate neighbors and pedestrians. ii. Less Grave Violations (a) Non-compliance with the work stoppage order for the alteration/addition/conver-sion/repair without permit (b) Use or occupancy of building/structure without appropriate Certificate of Oc-cupancy/Use/Operation iii. Grave Violations (a) Unauthorized change, modification or alteration during construction in the duly submitted plans and specifications on which the building permit is based (b) Unauthorized change in type of construction from more fire-resistive to less fire-resistive (c) Non-compliance with order to abate or demolish (d) Non-compliance with work stoppage order for construction/demolition without permit (e) Change in the existing use or occupancy without Certificate of Change of Oc-cupancy/Use/Operation (f) Excavations left open without any work being done in the site for more than one hundred twenty (120) days. b. Amount of Fines(Pursuant to the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Building Code of the Philippines(PD1096) The following amount of fines for violations of the Building Code and its IRR is hereby prescribed: Light Violations - P5,000.00 Less Grave Violations - P8,000.00 Grave Violations - P10,000.00

Section 6. Penalty. Any violation of the provision of this article shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Pesos (P 500.00) or imprisonment of not more than (2) months, or both at the discretion of the Court. Provided, that notwithstanding the imposition of fine and imprisonment, the offender shall be further required to secure the necessary building permit and to pay the corresponding fees thereof or as required by existing ordinances; Provided further, that in case the construction of the building or structure is not in conformity with existing regulations, the offender shall be required to remove or demolish the said building or structure within reasonable period upon receipt of the order of demolition; and Provided, finally, that upon failure to remove or demolish the said building or structure, the Municipal Mayor or his duly authorized representative shall undertake such removal or demolition at the expense of the offender.

TITLE XVII. Annual Permit fee for the Storage of Flammable and Combustible Materials

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There shall be collected an annual permit fee for the storage of combustible materials at the rates as follows: a1. Storage of flammable liquids: gasoline, diesel, fuel, kerosene and similar products500 to 2,000 liters (500 gals) P 100.002,001 to 5,000 liters (1,250 gals) P 300.005,001 to 20,0000 liters (5,000 gals) P 1,800.0020,001 to 50,000 liters (12,500 gals) P 3,000.0050,0001 to 100,000 liters (25,000 gals.) P 3,500.00Over 100,000 liters(25,000 gals.) P 4,000.00

a2. Storage of Flammable Liquids: Thinner, Prepared Paints, Diesel Oil, Fuel Oil, Kerosene, Varnish, Cleansing Solvent and Polishing Liquids 500 to 2,000 liters (500 gals) P 60.002,001 to 5,000 liters (1,250 gals) P 120.005,001 to 20,0000 liters (5,000 gals) P 150.0020,001 to 50,000 liters (12,500 gals) P 200.0050,0001 to 100,000 liters (25,000 gals.) P 400.00Over 100,000 liters(25,000 gals.) P 1,5 00.00

a3. Storage of Flammable Gases: Acetylene, Hydrogen, Coal, Gas and other flammable in gaseous form, except liquefied petroleum gas and other compress gases. 500 to 2,000 liters (500 gals) P 150.002,001 to 5,000 liters (1,250 gals) P 300.005,001 to 20,0000 liters (5,000 gals) P 800.0020,001 to 50,000 liters (12,500 gals) P 1,500.0050,0001 to 100,000 liters (25,000 gals.) P 1,800.00Over 100,000 liters(25,000 gals.) P 2,000.00

b. Storage of combustible, flammable or explosiveSubstance not mentioned above

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Section 2. Time of Payment.- The fees imposed in Article shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer upon application for his permit with the Mayor to store the aforementioned substances. Section 3. Administrative Provisions.(a) No person shall keep or store at his place of business any of the following flammable, combustible or explosive substances without securing a permit therefor. Gasoline or naptha not exceeding the quantity of One Hundred (100) gallons, kept in and used by launches or motor vehicles shall be exempt from the Permit fee herein required.(b) The Mayor shall promulgate regulations for the proper storing of said substances and shall designate the proper official and shall supervise therefor.

TITLE XVIII. Permit and Inspection Fee on Machineries and Engines

Section 1. Imposition of Fee.- There shall be imposed an annual inspection fee on internal combustion engines generators and other machines in accordance with the following schedules:(a) Internal combustible engines: 1. 2 HP and below P 2. 5HP and below but not lower than 3 HP 3. 10HP and below but not lower than 5 HP 4. 14HP and below but not lower than 10HP 5. Above 15HP

(b) Other stationery engines or machines: 1. 3HP and below P 2. 5HP and below but not lower than 3 HP 3. 10HP and below but not lower than 5 HP 4. 14HP and below but not lower than 10HP 5. Above 14HP

(c) Electrical generators and other machine propelled by electric motors will be levied the same rates found in subsection (1). Section 2. Time of Payment. The annual fee imposed in this Article shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer upon application of the Permit with the Mayor but not later than fifteen (15) days after the actual inspection by person authorized in writing by the Mayor. Thereafter, the fee shall be paid within twenty (20) days of January, or of every quarter as the case may be. Section 3. Administrative Provision. No engine or machine mentioned above shall be installed or operated within the limits of this municipality, without the permit of the Municipal Mayor and the payment of the inspection fee prescribed in this Article

TITLE XIX. Permit Fee for Inspection and Verification of Subdivision

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There shall be collected a Mayor’s Permit Fee for the verifica-tion and inspection of subdivision in this municipality, in accordance with the rates prescribed by the HLURB, as follows:

I. SUBDIVISION AND CONDOMINIUM PROJECTS (under P.D. 957) A. Approval of Subdivision Plan (Including town houses) 1. Preliminary Approval and Locational Clearance (PALC)/preliminary P250/ha. Or a fraction thereofSubdivision Development Plan (PSDP) . Inspection Fee 1,000/ha. regardless of density 2. Final Approval @ Development 2,000/ha. regardless of density . Additional Fee on floor Area of houses and building sold with lot P2/sq.m. . Inspection fee 1,000/ha. regardless of density (Not applicable for projects already inspected for PALC application) 3. Alteration of Plan (affected areas only) Same as final approval & Dev’t Permit 4. Certificate of Registration Processing Fee P2,000 5. License to Sell (per saleable lot) P150 . Additional Fee on floor area of houses & building sold with lot P10/sq.m.

. Inspection Fee 1,000/ha. regardless of density 6. Certificate of Completion . Certificate Fee P150 . Processing Fee P2,000/ha. regardless of density 7. Extension of Time to Develop P350 . Inspection fee (affected/unfinished areas only) P1,000/ha. regardless of density

(Open Market)DATA: Project Area = 4.12 Ha. No. of Lots Main Project (MP) = 100 lots No. of Lots Socialized Housing Counterpart = 80 lotsArea of Housing Component: MODEL “A” = (8x10) = 80 sq. m. @ 100 lots MODEL “B” = (5x8) = 40 sq. m. @ 80 lots Preliminary Subdivision Development Plan (PSDP): PALC Filing Fee: = PhP 250/Ha (or fraction hereof) x 4.1275 Ha = P 1,031.88Inspection Fee: = PhP 1,000/Ha (regardless of density) x 4.1275 Ha = P 4,127.50 B. Subdivision Development Permit (SDP): FA/DPProcessing Fee: = PhP 2,000/Ha (regardless of density) x 4.1275 Ha. = P 8,255.00Additional fee on Floor Area of Housing/Building sold with lot: = PhP 2/sq. m. x [(80 sq. m. x 100 lots) + (40 sq. m. x 80 lots)] = PhP 2/sq. m. x (8,000 + 3,2000) = P 22,400.00Note: NO collection of INSPECTION FEE for projects already inspected for PSDP application Alteration Plan (affected areas only) – same as Final Approval and Development Permit

B. Approval of Condominium Project Final Approval and Development Permit 1. Processing Fee a. Land Area P5/sq.m. b. No. of Floors P 200/floor c. Building Areas P 4/sq.m. . Inspection Fee P12/sq.m. of GFA 2. Alteration of Plan (affected areas only) Same as final approval & Dev’t Permit 3. Conversion (affected areas only) -do- 4. Certificate of Registration . Processing Fee P2,000 5. License to Sell a. Residential (saleable areas) P12/sq.m. b. Commercial/ office (Saleable areas) P25/sq.m. 6. Extension of Time to Develop . Processing Fee P350 . Inspection Fee (affected/unfinished areas only0 P12/sq.m. of GFA 7. Certificate of Completion . Certificate Fee P150 . Processing Fee P12/sq/m. of GFA

C. Projects Under BP 220 a. Subdivision 1. Preliminary Approval and Locational Clearance a. Socialized Housing P75/ha. b. Economic Housing P150/ha. . Inspection Fee a. Socialized Housing P200/ha. b. Economic Housing P500/ha. 2. Final Approval and Development Permit . Processing Feea. Socialized Housing P500/ha. b. Economic Housing P1,000/ha.

. Inspection Fee a. Socialized Housing P200/ha. b. Economic Housing P500/ha. (Projects already inspected for PALC Application may not be charged inspection fee)3. Alteration of Plan (affected areas only) Same as Final Approval & Dev’t Permit 4. Building Permit (floor area of housing unit) P5.00/sq.m. 5. Certificate of Registration . Application Feea. Socialized Housing P350/lot b. Economic Housing P500/lot 6. Licenses to Sell (per saleable lot)a. Socialized Housing P20/lot b. Economic Housing P50/lot (additional fee on floor area of houses/building sold with lot) P2/sq.m. . Inspection Feea. Socialized Housing P200/ha. b. Economic Housing P500/ha. 7. Extension of Time to Develop . Filling Feea. Socialized Housing P350 b. Economic Housing P500 . Inspection Fee (affected/unfinished areas only) P350a. Socialized Housing P200/ha. b. Economic Housing P500/ha. 8. Certificate of Completion . Certificate Feea. Socialized Housing P150 b. Economic Housing P150 . Processing Feea. Socialized Housing P200/ha. b. Economic Housing P500/ha. 9. Occupancy Permit P2./s.m. .Inspection Fee (saleable floor area of the housing unit) a. Socialized Housing P5/sq.m. b. Economic Housing P5/sq.m.b. Condominium 1. Preliminary Approval and Locational Clearance P5002. Final Approval and Development Permit a. Total Land Area P5/sq.m. b. Number of Floor P100/floor c. Building area P2/sq.m. of GFA *Inspection Fee P2/sq.m. of GFA3. Alteration of Plan (Affected areas only) Same as Final Approval & Dev’t Permit

4. Certificate of Registration P500 5. License to Sell P 5/sq.m. 6. Extension of Time to Develop P350.00 *Inspection Fee (FA x P2 % of remaining devt. Cost) P 2/sq.m. of saleable area 7. Certificate of Completion *Certificate Fee P150 *Processing Fee P 3/sq.m. of GFA

(Economic Housing)DATA: Project Area 3.50 Ha. No. of Lots Main Project (MP) 130 lots No. of Lots Socialized Housing Counterpart 90 lotsArea of Housing Component: MODEL “A” = (8x5.50) = 44 sq. m.@ 130 lots only MODEL “B” = (8x5) = 40 sq. m. @ 90 lots onlyPreliminary Subdivision Development Plan:Filing Fee = PhP 150/Ha (or fraction hereof) x 3.50 Ha P 525.00

Inspection Fee = PhP 500/Ha (regardless of density) x 3.50 Ha P 1,750.00 B. Subdivision Development Permit:Processing Fee : = PhP 1000/Ha (regardless of density) x 3.50 Ha. P 8,255.00BUILDING PERMIT: = PhP 5/sq. m. x [(44 sq. m. x 130 lots) + (40 sq. m. x 90 lots)] = PhP 5/sq. m. x (5,720 + 3,600 ) P 46,600.00

Note: NO collection of INSPECTION FEE for projects already inspected for PSDP application

Alteration Plan (affected areas only) – same as Final Approval and Development Permit

Occupancy Permit: Php 2/m2INSPECTION FEE: Php 5/m2

SUBDIVISION UNDER BP 220 (Socialized Housing)

DATA NEEDED: Project Area 1 Ha. No. of Lots Main Project (MP) 36 lots

Preliminary Subdivision Development Plan: Filing Fee = P 75/Ha (or fraction hereof) x 1 Ha PhP 75.00Inspection Fee = P 200/Ha (regardless of density) x 1 Ha PhP 200.00 Subdivision Development Permit: Processing Fee : = PhP 200/Ha (regardless of density) x 1 Ha. P 200.00 Note: NO collection of INSPECTION FEE for projects already inspected for PALC application Alteration Plan (affected areas only) – same as Final Approval and Development Permit

Building Permit: Php 5/m2 Occupancy Permit: Php 2/m2 INSPECTION FEE: Php 5/m2D. Approval of Industrial/Commercial Subdivision 1. Preliminary Approval and Locational Clearance P300/ha. *Inspection Fee P1,000/ha.regardless of location 2. Final Approval and Development Permit P5,000/ha.regardless of location *Inspection Fee P1,000/ha.regardless of location (Projects already inspected for PALC application may not be charged inspection fee) 3. Alteration of Plan (affected areas only) Same as Final Approval & Dev’t Permit 4. Certificated of Registration P2,000 5. License to Sell P 2/sq.m. of the land area *Inspection Fee P1,000/ha.regardless of location 6. Extension of Time to Develop P 350 *Inspection Fee (affected/unfinished areas only) P1,000/ha. 7. Certificate of Completion a. Industrial P 350/ha.regardless of location b. Commercial P 500/ha.regardless of location

E. Approval of Farmlot Subdivision 1. Preliminary Approval and Locational Clearance P 200/ha. *Inspection Fee P 500/ha. 2. Final Approval and Development Permit P1,000/ha. *Inspection Fee P 500/ha. (Projects already inspected for PALC application may not be charged inspection fee) 3. Alteration of Plan (affected areas only) same as Final Approval & Dev’t Permit 4. Certificate of Registration P2,000 5. License to Sell P 500/lot *Inspection Fee P1,000/lot 6. Extension of Time to Develop P 350 *Inspection Fee (affected/unfinished areas only) P1,000/ha. 7. Certificate of Completion *Certificate Fee P 150 *Processing Fee P1,000/ha.

F. Approval of Memorial Park/Cemetery Project/Columbarium 1. Preliminary Approval and Locational Clearance a. Memorial Projects P 500/ha. b. Cemeteries P 200/ha. c. Columbarium P 2,500/ha. *Inspection Fee a. Memorial Projects P 1,000/ha. b. Cemeteries P 500/ha. c. Columbarium P 12/sq.m. of GFA 2. Final Approval and Development Permit a. Memorial Projects P 2/sq.m. b. Cemeteries P 1/sq.m. c. Columbarium P 200/floor P 4/sq.m. of GFA P 5/sq.m.land area *Inspection Fee (Projects already inspected for PALC application may not be charged inspection fee) a. Memorial Projects P 1,000/ha. b. Cemeteries P 500/ha. c. Columbarium P 12/sq.m. of GFA 3. Alteration Fee same as Final Approval/Dev’t Permit 4. Certificate of Registration P 2,000 5. Licenses to Sell a. Memorial Projects P 50/2.5sq.m. -Apartment type P 20/per unit b. Cemeteries P 20/tomb c. Columbarium P 50/vault *Inspection Fee a. Memorial Projects P 1,000/ha b. Cemeteries P 500/ha c. Columbarium - 6. Extension of Time to Develop P 350 *Inspection Fee (affected/unfinished areas only) a. Memorial Projects P 1,000/ha. b. Cemeteries P 500/ha. c. Columbarium P12/sq.m. of the remaining GFA 7. Certificate of Completion *Certificate Fee P 150 *Processing Fee a. Memorial Projects P 1,000/ha. b. Cemeteries P 500/ha. c. Columbarium P 4/sq.m. of GFA

G. Other Transactions/Certifications A. Application/Request for: 1. Advertisement Approval P 500 2. Cancellation/Reduction of Performance Bond P 2,000. 3. Lifting of Suspended Licenses to Sell P 2,000. 4. Exemption from Cease and Desist Order P 150 5. Clearance to Mortgage P 1,000 6. Lifting of Cease and Desist Order P 2,000 7. Change of Name/Ownership P 1,000 8. Voluntary cancellation of CR/LS P 1,000 9. Revalidation/Renewal of Permit (Condominium) 50% of assessed current processing fees including inspection fee B. Other Certifications 1. Zoning Certifications P 500/ha 2. Certification of Town Plan/Zoning Ordinance Approval P 150 3. Certification of New Rights/Sales P 150 4. Certificate of Registration (form) P 150 5. License to Sell (form) P 150 6. Certificate of Creditable Withholding Tax (maximum of 5 lots per certificate) P 150 7. Others, to include: a. Availability to records/public request P 200 b. Certificate of no records on file P 200 c. Certificate of with or without CR/LS P 200 d. Certified Xerox copy of documents (report size) *Document of five(5) pages or less P 30 *Every additional Page P 3 e. Photo copy of documents P 2



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H. Registration of Dealers/Brokers/Salesmen A. Dealers/Brokers P 500 B. Salesmen/Agent P 200I. Homeowner Associations 1. Registration of HOA Examination/Registration *Articles of Incorporation P 650 *By-Laws P 650 *Books P 200 2. Amendments *Articles of Incorporation P 500 *By-Laws P 500 3. Dissolution of Homeowners Association P 500 4. Certification of the new set of officers P 350 5. Other Certifications P 150 *Inspection Fee (CMP Projects) P 500/ha.J. Legal Fees A. Filing Fee P 1,000 B. Additional Fee for claims(for refund, damages, attorney’s fee, etc.) 1. Not more than P20,000 P 120 2. More than P20,000 but less than P80,000 P 400 3. P80,000 or more but less than P10,000 P 600 4. P100,000 or more but less than P150,000 P 1,000 5. For each P1,000 in excess of P150,000 P 5 C. Petition for Review P 2,000

D. Pauper-litigants are exempt from payment of legal fees1. Those whose gross income is not more than P6,000 per month and residing within M.M.2. Those whose gross income is not more than P4,000 per month and residing outside M.M.3. Those who do not own real property. E. Government agencies and its instrumentalities are exempted from paying legal fees. F. Local Government & government owned or controlled corporations with or without Independent charters are not exempted paying legal fees.

K. UPLC Legal Research FeeComputation of Legal Research Fee for the University of the Philippines Law Center (UPLC) remains at One Percent (1%) of every fee charged but shall in no case be Lower than P10.00

L. Research/Service Fee (50% discount for students) A. 1. Photocopy (Maps:Subd./Condo Plans; presentation size) P 100 2. Hard Copy from Diskettes (License to Sell Data) P 30 1st 5 pages; P5/page in excess of 5 3. Electronic File (License to Sell available data) P 500/diskette; additional P50 for rush job 4. Electronic File (Land Use Maps available) P 10,000 5. Certified True Copy-Map(Land Use Plan) P 100 B. Sale of Forms, Publications, etc. 1. Proforma-Article of Incorporation and By-Laws P 150 2. Books and other HLURB publicationsa. CLUP Guidelines:Volume 1 Demography P 120 Volume II Social Sector P 380 Volume III Economic Sector P 380 Volume IV Infrastructure & Utilities Sector P 250 Volume V Land Use P 300 Volume VI Local Administration P 100 Volume VII Mapping P 250 Volume VIII Report Writing P 50

Volume IX Plan Review, Adoption and Approval Process P 230 Volume X Model Zoning Ordinance P 150 b. PD 957 P 200 c. BP 220 P 200 d. Planning Strategically Guidelines P 200

Application for CR/LS with DP issued by LGUs shall be charged inspection fee

If upon verification and inspection, it is found out that the subdivision is of a bigger area than what was reported as its areas, the applicant shall pay the fees corresponding to the area difference and the official receipt therefor shall be presented to the Mayor before final action is taken on the application. Section 2. Time of Payment. The fees imposed in this article shall be paid by the subdivision owner or his representative to the Municipal Treasurer before verification or inspection is conducted. Section 3. Administrative Provisions. The Municipal Mayor shall administer the provision of this article and other existing ordinance, executive orders, laws, regulating to, and governing subdivision and housing projects.

TITLE XX. Permit Fee for Zoning/Locational Clearance Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There shall be collected a Mayor’s Permit Fee for Zoning/Locational Clearance for all structures a constructed in this municipality in accordance with prescribed HLURB rates.

ZONING/LOCATIONAL CLEARANCEA. Single residential structure attached or detached 1. P100,000 and below P400.00 2. Over P100,000 to P200,000 600.00 3. Over P200,000 600+1/10 of 1% in excess of P200,000B. Apartment/Townhouses 1. P500,000 and below P1,500.00 2. Over P500,000 to 2 million P2,000.00 3. Over 2 million 3,000.00+1/10 of 1% of cost in excess of P2M regardless of the number of doors.C. Dormitories 1. P2 Million and below P3,000.00 2. Over P 2Million 3,000+1/10 of 1% of cost in excess of P2M regardless of the number of doors D. Institutional Project cost of which is: 1. Below P2Million P3,000 2. Over P2Million 3,000+1/10 of 1% of cost in excess of P2ME. Commercial, Industrial and Agro-Industrial Project Cost of which is: 1. Below P100,000 P1,500.00 2. Over 100,000 – P500,000 2,000.00 3. Over P500,000-P1M 2,500.00 4. Over P1M-P2M 3,500.00 5. Over P2M 5,000+1/10 of 1% of cost in excess of P2MF. Special Uses/Special Projects (Gasoline station, cell sites, slaughter house, treatment plant etc.) 1. Below P2Million P7,000.00 2. Over P2Million 7,000+1/10 of 1% of cost in excess of P2 M same as original applicationG. Alteration /Expansion (affected areas/cost only) Section 2. Time of Payment. The fees in this Article shall be paid by the applicant or his representative to the Municipal Treasurer when zoning/locational clearance is granted. Section 3. Administrative Provision. The Municipal Mayor shall administer the provision of this Article and other existing ordinances, executive orders, laws relating to and governing zoning/locational clearance.

XXI. Permit Fee for Temporary Use of Roads, Streets, Sidewalk, Alleys, Patios, Plazas and Playgrounds Section 1. Imposition of Fee. Any person that shall temporarily use and/or occupy a street, sidewalk, or alley or portion thereof in this municipality in connection with their construction works and other purposes, shall first secure a permit from the Mayor and pay a fee in the following schedule: 1) For construction P 5.00 /sq.m. per week or fraction thereof 2) Others 10.00/sq.m. per day For wake and other charitable, religious and educational purposes, use and/or occupancy is exempted from the payment of permit fee provided a corresponding permit is secured prior to such use and/or occupancy. Section 2. Time of Payment. The fee shall be paid to the City Treasurer upon application of the permit with the City Mayor. Section 3. Administrative Provisions. The period of occupancy and/or use of the street, sidewalk, or alley or portion thereof shall commence from the time the construction permit is issued and shall terminate only upon the issuance of the certificate of building occupancy. The Municipal Engineer shall report to the Municipal Treasurer the area occupied for purposes of collecting the fee.

TITLE XXII. Permit Fee for the Conduct of Group Activities Section 1. Imposition of Fee. Every person who shall conduct, or hold any program, or activity involving the grouping of people within the jurisdiction of this municipality shall obtain a Mayor’s permit therefor for every occasion of not more than twenty-four (24) hours and pay the Municipal Treasurer the corresponding fee in the following schedule:1. Conference, meetings, rallies and demonstration in outdoor, in parks, plazas, roads/streets P 500.002. Dances 500.003. Coronation and ball 500.004. Promotional sales 1,000.005. Other Group Activities 500.00 Section 2. Time of Payment. The fee imposed in this article shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer upon filing of application for permit with the Municipal Mayor. Section 3. Exemption. Programs or activities conducted by educational, charitable, religious and governmental institutions free to the public shall be exempted from the payment of the fee herein imposed, provided, that the corresponding Mayor’s Permit shall be secured accordingly. Programs or activities requiring admission fees for attendance shall be subject to the fees herein imposed even if they are conducted by exempt entities. Section 4. Administrative Provision. A copy of every permit issued by the Municipal Mayor shall be furnished to the Chief of Police or Station Commander of the Philippine National Police (PNP) of the municipality who shall assign police officers to the venue of the program or activity to help maintain peace and order.

CHAPTER IV. SERVICE FEESTITLE I. Secretary’s Fees Section 1. Imposition of Fees. There shall be collected the following fees from every person requesting for copies of official records and documents from the offices of this municipality. Amount of Feea) For every page or fraction thereof typewritten (not including the certificate and notation) P 100.00b) For each certificate of correctness (with seal of Office) written on the copy or attached thereto 100.00c) For certifying the official act of the Municipal Judge or other judicial certificate with seal 100.00d) For certified copies of any papers, records, decrees, judgment or entry of which any person is entitled to demand and receive a copy (in connection with judicial proceedings) for each page 150.00e) Photocopy or any other copy produced by copying machine per page 60.00 Additional Page 20.00 Section 2. Exemption. The fees imposed in this Article shall not be collected for copies furnished to other offices and branches of the government for official business, except for those copies required by the Court at the request of the litigant, in which case, charges shall be in accordance with the above-mentioned schedule. Section 3. Time and Manner of Payment. The fees shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer at the time the request, written or otherwise, for the issuance of a copy of any municipal record or document is made.

TITLE II. Local Civil Registry Fees

Section 1. Imposition of fees - The following fees shall be collected for services rendered by the Civil Registry of the Municipality: A. Birth Registration: 1. Within 30 days from date of birth Exempt 2. After thirty (30) days from date of birth 50.00 but not more than six (6) mos. 3. After six (6) mos from date of birth 100.00 but not more than one (1) year. 4. After one (1) year from date of birth 150.00 But not more than five (5) years. 5. After five (5) years from date of birth 250.00 6. Sale of Form (MF 102) 25.00 7. Court Orders/Decrees not registered within 250.00 the reglamentary period B. Marriage Fees 1. Marriage License Application Fee 650.00 2. Solemnization Fee 250.00 3. Pre-Marriage Counselling Seminar Fee 50.00 C. Marriage Registration

For Ordinary Marriages: 1. Within fifteen(15) days from date of marriage Exempt 2. After fifteen(15) days from date of marriage but not more than six (6) mos. 50.00 3. After six (6) mos from date of marriage 100.00 but not more than (1) year. 4. After one (1) year from date of marriage 150.00 but not more than five (5) years. 5. After five (5) years from date of marriage 250.00 6. Sale of Form ( MF 97) 25.00 For Marriages Exempt from Marriage License: 1. Within 30 days from solemnization of Marriage. Exempt 2. After 30 days from solemnization of Marriage 250.00D. Death Registration 1. Within 30 days from date of death Exempt 2. After thirty (30) days from date of death 250.00 3. Sale of Form (MF 103) 25.00 E. Registration of Court Orders/Judicial Decrees 1. Legal Separation 350.00 2. Annotation of Divorce 350.00 3. Annulment of Marriage 350.00 4. Declaration of Absolute Nullity of Marriage 350.00 5. Annotation on Civil Registry Records of 350.00 Foreign documents registered in Manila Civil Registry. 6. Legitimation through Judicial Process 350.00 7. Adoption: a) Foreign Adoption: 500.00 b) Local Adoption: 350.00 i) If both parents for joint adoption are, or if Lone adopter is, not the Natural/biological Parents/parent. ii) If one or both parents for joint adoption are, or if the lone adopter is, the Natural/ biological parents/parent. 8. Voluntary emancipation of minors. 350.00 9. Court Decision recognizing or Acknowledging natural 350.00 children or Impugning or denying recognition. 10. Judicial determination of paternity. 350.00 11. Court decision or order on the Custody 350.00 of minors and guardianship. 12. Option/Election to Philippine Citizenship. 350.00 13. Change of Name through Court Proceedings. 350.00 14. Aliases. 350.00 15. Naturalization by Court Proceedings. 350.00 16. Repatriation or Voluntary Renunciation 350.00 of Citizenship through the Court. 17. Court Declaration of Presumptive Death. 350.00 18. Correction of Entry/ies through Court Proceedings. 350.00 19. Registration of other Court Orders/Judicial Decrees. 350.00F. Registration of Legal Instruments

1. Certificate of Repatriation 500.00 2. Affidavit or Oath of Allegiance of Wife or Children of a Citizen. 500.00 3. Affidavit to Use the Surname of the Father through R.A. 9255 250.00 4. Affidavit of Acknowledgement/Affidavit of Admission of Paternity/Affidavit 250.00 Recognizing Natural Children 5. Affidavit of Legitimation by Subsequent Marriage of Natural Parents 250.00 6. Voluntary Emancipation of a Minor Child. 100.00 7. Supplemental Report of Birth 250.00 8. Certificate of Naturalization 500.00 9. Certificate of Legal Capacity to Marry 250.00 10. Affidavit of Reappearance 250.00 11. Authorization or Ratification of Artificial Insemination. 350.00 12. Registration of Other Legal Instruments. 250.00G. Other Filing Fees: 1. Correction of Entry/ies in the Civil Registry Record through R.A. 9048. 1,000.00 2. Change of Name in the Record of Birth through R.A. 9048. 3,000.00 3. Filing Fee for Correction of Entry (Migrant) 500.00 4. Filing Fee for Change of Name (Migrant) 1,000.00 Issuance of Certifications, Certified Copies of Civil Registry documents, and Image of Documents on File in the Civil Registry: H. Issuance of Certifications: 1. Certification of Birth Available (Form 1A) 60.00 2. Certification of Birth Not Available (Form 1B) 60.00 3. Certification of Birth Destroyed/Lost (Form 1C) 60.00

4. Certification of Marriage Available (Form 3A) 60.00 5. Certification of Marriage Not Availabe (Form 3B) 60.00 6. Certification of Marriage Destroyed/Lost (Form 3C) 60.00 7. Certification Death Available ( Form 2A) 60.00 8. Certification of Death Not Available (Form 2B) 60.00 9. Certification of Death Destroyed/Lost (Form 2C) 60.00 10. Certification /True Copy of Civil Registry Records 60.00 11. Photographic, Machine Copy or Image reproduction of Civil Registry Records (not Certified) 20.00 12. Certified Photocopy, Machine Copy or Image reproduction of Civil Registry Records 20.00 13. Certificate of Registration of Civil Registry Records 100.00 14. Certification of Filing of Petition of R.A. 9048, Legitimation, AUSF 100.00 15. Letters/Endorsement of Civil Registry Records to NSO-OCRG or other Municipal/City Civil Registry Offices 100.00 16. Other Certifications on Civil Registry Records on File 100.00

Section. 3- Payment of fees - The fees shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer or his duly authorized deputies before registration or issuance of the document or certified copy thereof.

TITLE III. Police Clearance Fee

Section 1. Imposition Fee. There shall be paid for each police clearance certificate obtained from the Station Commander of the Philippine National Police of this municipality the following fees: Amount of Fee1. For employment, scholarship, study grant, and other purposes not hereunder specified P 60.002. For change of name 100.003. For application for Filipino citizenship 300.004. For passport or visa application 300.00 5. For firearms permit application 500.006. For PLEB clearance 200.007. Extract Records for Police Blotter 100.00 Section 2. Time of Payment. The service fee provided under this Article shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer upon application for police clearance certificate.

TITLE IV. Sanitary Inspection Fee

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. Every owner/operator of business, industrial, commercial or agricultural establishments, accessories shall secure sanitary certificate or permit for the purpose of supervision and enforcement of existing rules and regulations on sanitation and safety of enforcement of existing rules and regulations on sanitation and safety of the public upon payment to the Municipal Treasurer of an annual fee in accordance with the following schedule: a) Financial Institution - such as banks, pawnshops, money shops, insurance companies and all other similar establishments: Main Office P 350.00Every branch 250.00 b) Gasoline and filling stations 600.00 c) Private Hospitals 1,500.00 d) Medical clinics, dental and animal hospital 250.00 e) Hotels, motels, apartelle and all other similar establishments 1,500.00 f) Apartment per door 150.00 g) Houses for rent 250.00 h) Dormitories, lodging or boarding houses 250.00 i) Institutions of learning 600.00 j) Media facilities 500.00 k) Administration Officers, display offices and/or office of professionals 500.00 l) All other businesses, industrial, commercial, agricultural establishments nor specifically mentioned above: With an area of 1,000 sq.m. or more 1,100.00 500 sq.m. or more but less than 1,000 sq.m. 880.00 200 sq.m. or more but less than 500 sq.m. 660.00 100 sq.m. or more but less than 200 sq.m. 440.00 50 sq.m. or more but less than 100 sq.m. 220.00 less than 50 sq.m. 110.00 m. Certificate of Potability 100.00 n. Transfer of Cadaver 100.00 o. Transfer of Remains 100.00 p. Exhumation Permit 100.00 q. Re-burial Permit 100.00 In case were single person, partnership or corporation conducts or operates two or more business in one place or establishment, the sanitary inspection permit fee shall be imposed on the business with the highest rate. Section 2. Time of Payment. The sanitary inspection fee prescribed under this Article shall be paid at the Office of the Municipal Treasurer concerned within ten (10) days from the date of inspection. Section 3. - Administrative Provision - Except as otherwise provide, the local health officer or his duly authorized representative shall conduct an annual inspection of all houses, accessoria or building for rent or as soon as circumstances require and all business establishments (commercial industrial, agricultural) in order to determined their adequacy of ventilation, property of habitation and general sanitary conditions pursuant to the existing laws, rules and regulations. Sanitary permit shall be issued to the owner by the Local Health Officer or his duly authorized representative after such inspection was conducted and found to be sanitary. Every permit issued shall show the name of the applicant, his nationality, marital status, address, nature of organization, (whether sole proprietorship, partnership or corporation), location information or date as may be necessary. The permit shall be granted for a period of not more than one year and shall expire on the 31st day of December following the date of issuance thereof, unless revoked or surrendered earlier. Every permit shall cease to be in force upon revocation; surrender of same; upon closure of the business or discontinuance of the undertaking for which the permit was issued. The business shall be deemed finally closed only upon payment of all taxes, charges and fees due thereon.

TITLE V. Service Fees for Health Examination

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There will be collected a fee of forty Pesos (P40.00) from any person who is given a physical examination by the Municipal Health Officer or his duly authorized representative, as required by existing ordinances. A fee of fifty two Pesos (P52.00) shall be collected for each additional copy of subsequent issuance of a copy of the initial medical certificate issued by the Municipal Health Officer. Laboratory Fees – All persons requiring the services of the Local Health Officer for laboratory test shall pay the following laboratory fees: 1. Urinalysis P 45.002. Stool Examination/Fecalysis 45.003. Pregnancy test 100.004. Complete Blood Count 50.005. Hemoglobin/Hematocrit Count 50.006. Platelet Count 45.00 7. Sputum Exam 40.008. Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS) 100.009. Blood Typing 50.0010. Cross matching 100.0011. Hepa B s Ag det. 180.0012. Hepa C s Ag det. 180.0013. Widal Test/S. Typhi Ig G/Ig M 650.0014. BUN 100.0015. Creatinine 100.0016. Uric Acid 100.0017. Cholesterol 200.0018. Triglyceride 500.0019. HDL 500.0020. LDL 500.0021. Drug Test 300.0022. Hemoglobin/hematocrit count for pregnant women 25.0023. Urinalysis for pregnant women 25.0024. Foreign body removal (nose and other parts of the body) 100.0025. IUD insertion 100.0026. IUD removal 100.0027. Pap smear 150.0028. Depo Provera Injection 100.0029. Wound dressing 20.0030. Wound suturing (minor) 100.0031. Suture removal 50.0032. Sputum Exam to non-symptomatic 50.0033. Urinalysis to non-pregnant 50.0034. Platelet count 50.0035. CBC non-pregnant 50.0036. CBC pregnant 25.0037. Blood Typing (except Senior Citizens) 50.0038. Circumcision (adult) 400.0039. Circumcision (kid) 150.00

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of the Laboratory Test to the Municipal Treasurer or his representative.

Section 3. Administrative Provisions.(a) Individuals engaged in an occupation or working in the following establishments, are hereby required to undergo physical and medical examination before they can be employed and once every six months (6) thereafter. 1. Food establishments – establishments where food or drinks are manufactured, processed, stored, sold or served. 2. Public swimming or bathing places. 3. Dance schools, dance halls and night clubs - include dance instructors, hostess, cooks, bartenders, waitresses, etc. 4. Tonsorial and beauty establishments - include employees of barber shops, beauty parlors, hairdressing and manicuring establishments, exercise gyms and figure slenderizing saloons, facial centers, aromatherapy establishments, etc. 5. Massage clinics and sauna bath establishments - include masseurs, massage clinic/sauna bath attendants, etc. 6. Hotel, motels and apartments, lodging, boarding, or tenement houses, and condominiums.(b) Owners, managers or operators of the establishments shall see to it that their employees who are required to undergo physical and medical examinations have been issued the necessary medical certificates.(c) The Municipal Health Officer shall keep a record of physical and other health examinations conducted, and the copies of medical certificates issued indicating the name of the applicant, the date and the purpose for which the examination was made.

Section 4. Penalty. A fine of Fifty Pesos (P50.00) shall be paid by the owner, manager or operators of the establishment for each employee found to be without the necessary medical certificates.

TITLE VI. Dog Vaccination Fee

Section 1. Imposition Fee. There shall be collected/imposed from every owner of the dog a vaccination fee of Fifty pesos (P50.00) for every dog vaccinated within the territorial jurisdiction of this municipality. Section 2. Time of Payment. The fee shall be paid to the Municipal treasurer prior to the vaccination of the dog in close coordination with the Municipal Agricultural Office and the Office of the Provincial Veterinarian. Section 3. Administrative Provisions. 1. Vaccination Against Rabies – means the inoculation of a dog with rabies vaccine licensed for the species by the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture. Such vaccination must be per-formed by trained individual from BAU, Provincial Veterinarian Office and Municipal Agriculture Office. (a) Every dog 3 months of age and older should be submitted by the owner for vaccination against rabies every year. Young dogs shall be vaccinated within thirty (30) days after they have reached three months of age. (b) During free mass dog rabies vaccination campaign, every dog 3 months of age and older should be submitted by the owner for vaccination. Dogs not submitted on the scheduled date or within one month thereafter shall be exterminated under the supervision of the Municipal Rabies Control Authority. Becomes optional after a mass dog rabies vaccination campaign covering at least 80% of the dog population.2. It shall be the duty of each trained vaccination when vaccinating any dog to complete certificate of rabies vaccination (in duplicate for each animal vaccinated). The certificate shall include the following information. (a) Owners name, address and telephone number if any (b) Description of dog (color, sex, markings, age, name, species and breed if any) (c) Dates of vaccination and vaccine expiration if known (d) Rabies vaccination tag number (e) Vaccine produced (f) Vaccinator’s signature (g) Veterinarians license number/ vaccinator’s address

The dog owner shall be provided with a copy of the certificate. The veterinarian/ vaccinator will retain one copy for the duration of the vaccination. A durable metal or plastic tag, serially numbered issued by the veterinarian/ vaccinator, shall be securely attached to the collar of the dog. NOTE : The above provisions may not apply in a mass vaccination program. During a free mass dog vaccination, the cost shall be borne by the owner after the scheduled date.3. Dog Registration or Licensing – Every dog shall be registered by their owner upon reaching the age of 3 months and every year thereafter. Unvaccinated dogs registered after reaching the age of 3 months and dogs 3 months old and above not previously registered shall be vaccinated upon registration. The dog owner shall pay such registration fee as may be determined by the Municipal Council. The registration officer shall provide the owner with a certificate of certification for the dog and affix to a distinguished collar tag as proof of registration.4. Elimination of Unregistered Dog – Unregistered dogs over the age of 4 months shall be seized and humanely exterminated under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian or the Municipal Rabies Control Authority or vaccinated under the provisions of Section 3 (4). The licensed veterinarian/ trained vaccinator or the Municipal Rabies Control Authority shall give the guidance on the extermination methods to be used (shooting, poisoning, carbon dioxide or anesthetic overdose or decapitation) in a different environment (area of habitation, marketplace, rubbish dumps, open countryside, etc.) The license veterinarian, trained vaccinator, the Municipal Rabies Control Authority or a police officer may enter any land for the purpose of seizing or exterminating a dog which is liable to be seized under this section. NOTE : Elimination is based on the presence or absence of a dog tag and/or a registration or vaccination certificate. The Provincial Veterinarian and the MAO is tasked to determine the age of the dogs. 5. Reporting of Biting Incidents - The owner of a dog which has bitten any person and the person who has been bitten shall, within 24 hours of the occurrence, report the incident to the Municipal Rabies Control Authority, a health care worker or a police officer receiving such information who shall immediately transmit it to the Municipal Rabies Control Authority for investigation.6. The owner of a dog which has bitten any person shall be responsible for all the Treatment and dog examination.7. Financial support for the activity shall be borne by the Municipal Government, Provincial Govern-ment and the Barangay Government. Section 4. Penalty. Any dog owner who fails to abide by any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be subjected to a fine of Two Thousand Five Hundred (P2,500.00) Pesos without prejudice to the provision of Section 3 (7). It shall be the responsibility of the Municipal Rabies Control Authority to administer this ordi-nance, and to promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for its implementation. Enforcement shall be the responsibility of the Municipal Rabies Control Authority as defined under Section 1 of this article.

CHAPTER V. MUNICIPAL CHARGES TUBOC BUSINESS COMMUNITY CENTER (TBCC)

TITLE I. Title, Scope, Authority and Purpose

Section 1. Title. This Ordinance shall be known as “The 2012 Tubod Business Community Center (TBCC) Code of the Municipality of Tubod, Lanao del Norte”. Section 2. Scope. This Code shall govern the administration and operation of the municipal-ity’s Tubod Business Community Center (TBCC) including the classification, construction, repair, renovation of booths and stalls therein, imposition and collection of business center rental fees and charges for occupancy thereof. Section 3. Authority. This Code is enacted pursuant to Section 447 of Republic Act 7160, otherwise known as the “Local Government Code of 1991” which empowers the municipality thru its legislative body known as the Sangguniang Bayan to: a. Prescribe the terms and conditions under which public utilities owned by the municipality shall be operated by the municipal government or leased to private persons or entities, preferably cooperatives; b. Establish business centers or markets and authorize the operation thereof, and regulate the construction and operation of private markets, “talipapas” or other similar buildings and structures; c. Require that buildings and the premises thereof and any land within the municipality be kept and maintained in a sanitary condition, impose penalties for any violation thereof, or upon failure to comply with said requirements, have the work done require the owner, administrator or tenant concerned to pay the expenses of the same, or require the filling up of any land or premises to a grade necessary for proper sanitation. Section 4. Purpose. This Code is enacted for the following purposes: a. Guide, control and regulate the growth and development of this municipality’s Tubod Busi-ness Community Center(TBCC) including its premises; b. Protect the character and stability of the TBCC and its premises as well as promote an orderly and beneficial development of the same; c. Promote and protect the health, safety, peace, comfort and general welfare of the occupants therein as well as the general public patronizing the TBCC; d. Regulate the operation of all businesses or trade activities in the TBCC; e. Regulate and restrict the location and use of stalls, booths or other structures inside the TBCC compound; f. Regulate the alteration or remodeling of existing booths or structures in such a way as to avoid public hazards or inconvenience; g. Eliminate the incompatible or non-conforming uses of the TBCC stalls and its premises.

TITLE I. Construction of Provisions

Section 1. Words and Phrases Not Herein Expressly Defined. Words and phrases embodied in this Code not herein specifically defined shall have the same definitions as found in RA 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991. Section 2. Rules of Construction. In construing the provisions of this Code, the following

rules of construction shall be observed unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the provisions: a) General Rules. All words and phrases shall be construed and understood according to the common and approved usage of the language; but the technical words and phrases and such other words in this Code which may have acquired a peculiar or appropriate meaning shall be construed and understood according to such technical, peculiar or appropriate meaning. b) Gender and Number. Every word in the Code importing the masculine gender shall extend to both male and female. Every word importing the singular number shall apply to several persons or things as well; and every word importing the plural number shall extend and be applied to one person or thing as well. c) Reasonable Time. In all cases where any act is required to be done within the reasonable time, the same shall be deemed to mean such time as may be necessary for the prompt performance of the act. d) Computation of Time. The time within which an act is to be done as provided in this Code, or any rule or regulation issued pursuant to the provisions thereof, when expressed in days, shall be computed by excluding the first day and including the last day, except if the last day falls on a Sunday or holiday, in which case the same shall be excluded in the computation and the business day following shall be considered the last day. e) References. All references to chapters, articles, or sections are to the Chapters, Articles or Sections in this Code unless otherwise specified. f) Conflicting Provisions of Chapters. If the provisions of different chapters conflict with or con-travene each other, the provisions of each chapter shall prevail as to all specific matters and questions involved therein. g) Conflicting Provisions of Sections. If the provisions of the different sections in the same article conflict with each other, the provisions of the Section which is the last in point of sequence shall prevail.

TITLE III. Definition of Terms

Section 1. Definition of Terms. When used in this Code, each of the following words and phrases shall be construed to mean as follows: a) Bladed Instruments – refer to any sharp-pointed implement used to cut, strip or otherwise mutilate animal carcasses. The term includes butcher’s knife, kitchen knife, cutting blade, sharpening torque otherwise known as “panghasa” and similar instruments. b) Butcher – refers to any person engaged in slaughtering pig, cows, poultry and other livestock not prohibited by existing laws and ordinances. c) Business Center/Marker Booth – refers to an enclosure built or erected on a market space where merchandise of various kinds is being sold or offer for sale. d) Business Center/Market Building - a constructed edifice designed to stand more or less permanently, covering space of land, usually covered by a roof, more or less enclosed by walls and supported by columns, and serving as a place for commercial or trade activities. e) Business Center/Market Premises – refer to any space in the business center/public market compound, part of the business center/market loot consisting of bare ground, outside of the business center/public market building usually occupied by transient vendors during market days. f) Business Center/Market Section – refers to a subdivision of the business center/public market housing one class or group of allied goods, commodities or merchandise. g) Floorings – refer to the ground flooring of stalls in the Business Center/Public Market. h) Government-Owned or Operated Business Centers/Public Markets – refer to those markets and/or business centers established out of public funds or those leased/acquired by any legal means from private persons, natural or juridical, to be operated by the government either thru its instrumentality, branch or political subdivision. i) Harboring – refers to the act whereby a person gives shelter and aid to an illegal vendor or to clandestinely shelter, succor and improperly protect illegal vendors. j) Impervious Materials – shall mean and refer to hardware materials that are impenetrable, not capable of being damaged and tarnished, not affected by harsh elements of nature such as mildew, algae, fungi, or moisture with plain and smooth surface that are durable and resistant to wear corrosion. Samples of impervious materials are stainless steel plates, ceramic files, fornica sheets, porcelain plates, marble slabs and other surfaced, non-porous, water or moist resistant materials. k) Leasehold Rights – the rights transferred by the stallholder to his legitimate spouse and legitimate children in case of death. l) Legitimate Farmers – farmers who are members of duly registered and accredited farmers’ association in the Municipality of Tubod, Lanao del Norte. m) Legitimate Stallholder – refers to the occupants of the previous Tubod Public Market who pays the necessary license and business permits as per record of the Municipal Treasurer’s Office and de facto lease holders who are ambulant vendors as per record of the Department of Trade and Industry before closure of the Tubod Public Market. n) Market Fee – refers to the fee collected by the market collector duly assigned by the Municipal Treasurer for using business center/public market utilities. o) Market Rental Fee – refers to the amount of fee collected for the privilege of occupying and utilizing a business center/market stall or space for commercial activities. p) Market/Business Center Section – refers to the classification of a group of continuous stalls in the business center/market according to the kind of merchandise offered for sale therein, to wit: p.1 Coconut Section – refers to the area where only coconut meat and milk shall be sold. p.2 Cold Storage Service Section – refers to the area where only refrigeration services shall be made available and sale of ice in whatever form shall be conducted. p.3 Dressed Chicken Section – refers to the area where only dressed chicken shall be sold. These products could either be newly slaughtered of frozen. p.4 Dried Fish Section – refers to the area where only all dried marine products and smoked fish shall be sold. p.5 Electronics and Appliance Section – refers to the area where only all kinds of electronics and appliances shall be sold. p.6 Feeds Section – refers to the area where only animal feeds shall be sold. p.7 Flower, Plants and Garden Section – refers to the area where all kinds of fresh and/or artificial flowers, plants and garden accessories and tools shall be sold. p.8 Fruit Section – refers to the area where only all kinds of fruits including those abundant in Tubod, Lanao del Norte shall be sold. p.9 Footwear Section – refers to the area where only footwear and other related products shall be sold. p.10 Glassware Section – refers to the area where only all kinds of kitchen utensils, plastic wares, toiletries, styrofoam, and other kitchen wares shall be sold. p.11 Grocery Section – refers to the area where only all kinds of grocery items and other household and food products shall be sold. p.12 Hawkers’ Plaza - refers to the area where fruits, appliances and electronics, dried fish and charcoal shall be sold. p.13 Meat Section – refers to the area where only meat products like pork, beef, mutton (goat), and other livestock products not prohibited by existing laws or ordinances are being sold provided that these meats shall be separately displayed and properly labeled. Dresses chicken is no included in this section. p.14 Native Products Section – refers to the area where only all native products shall be sold. p.15 Novelty Section – refers to the area where only novelty items like souvenir items, men’s and women’s accessories and all kinds of bags shall be sold. p.16 Parlor and Barber Shop Section – refers to the area where only beauty products and services like haircutting, hair coloring, pedicure and manicure services among others shall be available. p.17 Restaurant Section – refers to the area where only all kinds of cooked/prepared foods and beverages except liquor shall be sold. p.18 Grains Section – refers to the area where only all varieties of grains, such as; rice, corn, sorghum, etc. shall be sold. p.19 RTW and Textile Section – refers to the area where only all kinds of textile, curtains, ready-made dresses and apparels shall be sold, rental of gowns and barong shall also be available in this section. p.20 School and Office Supplies Section – refers to the area where school and office supplies and other related items shall be sold. p.21 Shoe and Bag Repair Section – refers to the area where only shoe and bag repair services shall be provided. p.22 Tailoring Services Section – refers to the area where only tailoring services shall be provided. p.23 Vegetable Section – refers to the area where only all kinds of vegetables including onion, garlic, young corn, mongo, calamansi and the like, root crops such as camote, gabi and the like shall be sold. Coconut is not included in this section. q) Market Stall – refers to any allotted stand, space, compartment, store or any place wherein merchandise is sold, offered for sale or intended for such purposes in the public market. r) Market Stall Fee – refers to the rental fee collected by the market collector duly assigned by the Municipal Treasurer for using the TBCC market stalls. s) Market Vendor – refers to any person engaged in business at any public market/business center in the Municipality of Tubod, Lanao del Norte. t) Merchandise Unloading Zone – refers to the designated area within the TBCC premises where vegetables, meats, fruits, goods, merchandise and other wares are unloaded for the purpose of being sold, stored or otherwise kept for the time being. u) Physical Structure – refers to the walls, wall partitions, floorings, roll-up, lock and keys of the stalls. v) Stall Lessee (Stallholder) – refers to the awardee of the of the lease contract to occupy a market stall or space, with or without booth, inside the public market/business center building.

Chapter VISUPERVISION AND CONTROL

TITLE I. Coverage and Statement of Policy

Section 1. Coverage. This Chapter shall cover the operation and management of the Tubod Business Community Center (TBCC) situated at Barangay San Antonio, Tubod, Lanao del Norte. Section 2. Policy Statement. It is the policy of the Municipal Government of Tubod, Lanao del Norte to be self-reliant, and self-sustaining through engaging in a viable and stable economic enterprise that provide a wide range of opportunities that will uplift the socio-economic well being of its constituents, improve fiscal management and enhance good governance. No person or corporation other than the Local Government Unit of Tubod shall establish and maintain public markets of any kind within the limits of the municipality. Public markets shall be those designated by the Sangguniang Bayan, which shall be under the immediate control, supervision and administration of the Municipal Mayor or any other office such functions shall be specifically assigned into by the Sangguniang Bayan, and their form and extension shall be shown on the maps on file in the Office of the Municipal Engineer, or as may hereinafter be adopted by the Sangguniang Bayan and shall be subject to the provisions of this Ordinance.

Section 3. Administrative Provision. All stallholders/vendors and other business operators doing business/operating within the TBCC are required to secure the necessary permit and license before the actual business/operation pursuant to the Local Tax Code of the Municipality of Tubod, Lanao del Norte.

TITLE II. Management Structure

Section 1. TUBOD BUSINESS COMMUNITY CENTER (TBCC) MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. There shall be hereby constituted the Tubod Business Community Center Management Committee who is on top of the TBCC Management Office organizational structure with the following composi-tion, functions, and schedule of meetings.

Chairman : Municipal MayorVice Chairman : Local Finance Committee ChairmanMembers : Chairman, SB Committee on Market Chairman, SB Committee on Ways and Means Chairman, SB Committee on Appropriations Municipal Planning and Dev’t Coordinator Municipal Treasurer Municipal Budget Officer Municipal Accountant Municipal Assessor Municipal Health Officer Municipal Engineer Municipal Agriculture Officer Market Administrator/Supervisor TBCC Vendors Representative The TBCC Management Committee, however, shall cease to exist once the Municipal Economic Enterprises Management Board is created by virtue of an Ordinance. Section 2. Functions of the Management Committee. The Management Committee shall formulate policies, guidelines, rules and procedures in the overall administration of the Tubod Busi-ness Community Center (TBCC) and recommend necessary funding for its operations consistent with the policy and provisions of this Code. Specifically, it shall: a. Develop plans, programs and strategies beneficial to the Municipality and making the Tubod Business Community Center more viable, productive and stable; b. Serve as the advisory body of the Municipal Mayor and the Sangguniang Bayan on matters affecting the overall management of TBCC; c. Set additional requirements for applicants who are interested to lease the vacant stalls/spaces, if necessary; d. Device mechanisms to conduct public raffle in the awarding of vacant stalls/spaces and shall certify to the Sangguniang Bayan the result thereof; e. Award stalls/spaces by authorizing the Municipal Mayor to sign the lease contract to ap-plicants as prescribed by this code; f. Conduct pre-qualification of the applications for stall applicants. In case where deliberation of the Management Committee resulted in a tie vote, the chairman shall break the tie; g. May propose adjustment and/or increase of any fees and rentals and amendment to this Code to the Sangguniang Bayan for a justifiable and reasonable cause; and h. Perform such other functions as may be authorized by the Sangguniang Bayan necessary in the effective and efficient management of the enterprise. Section 3. Meetings. The TBCC Management Committee shall meet within one (1) week after the approval of this Code and, thereafter, every second Tuesday of the month or as often it may be necessary. The board may reduce the number of scheduled meetings as the operations of the Tubod Business Community Center become stable, or as the Management Committee may deem necessary. The Chairman of the Management Committee may call for a special meeting anytime should there be an important/urgent matter(s) that need the attention and decision of the members of the Committee. Any member or members may as concurred/supported by the majority members may propose for a special meeting on the reason as mentioned above. In case of a justifiable reason, a member may send his/her authorized representative preferably next-in-rank in position. Said representative may participate in the discussion but with no voting rights. Section 4. Tubod Business Community Center (TBCC) Management Office. A TBCC Management Office shall be created who shall be under the direct supervision and control of the TBCC Management Committee and shall supervise the overall operations of the Tubod Business Community Center. The Office shall be headed by the Market Supervisor (organic) who has the following duties and responsibilities: a. Assists the TBCC Management Committee in the formulation of plans and programs relative to target collection and the operation of the public market; b. Directly manages the operation of the public market and shall therefore enforce the imple-mentation of market rules and regulations as prescribed in the ordinance and/or set forth by the Management Committee; c. Ensures that all fees are properly effected, collected and recorded; d. Supervises the conduct of inspection of market stalls; e. Supervises the maintenance of peace and order in the market premises; f. Supervises the maintenance of cleanliness and sanitation in the market premises; g. Acts as technical secretariat to the Management Committee, when designated; h. Overseas and monitors the duties and functions that may be assigned to casual/contractual complementary staff of every section; i. Assists the Management Committee in the conduct of periodic performance evaluation of the section staff and submission of reports thereof; and j. Performs other related duties and functions as may be assigned from time to time. Section 5. Composition of TBCC Management Office. The Tubod Business Community Center Management Office shall have the following Plantilla Positions with corresponding salary grades of personnel and sections. a. Administrative Section. Responsible on matters pertaining to personnel, disbursements, controlling, and recording of the enterprise. Plantilla Positions of personnel under this division are as follows: 1 – Administrative Officer V 1- Administrative Aide III/Driver I 1- Administrative Aide I/Utility Worker b. Finance Section. Responsible on matters pertaining to the Revenue Collection and Collectors of the public market, including the controlling and recording. Plantilla Positions of personnel under this division are as follows: 1 – Revenue Collection Officer I 1 – Cashier 1 - Bookkeeper 3- Revenue Collection Clerk III SG-9 (Organic) c. Maintenance and Repair Section. Responsible on matters pertaining to maintenance and repair of Tubod Business and Community Center facilities, such as but not limited to electrical, plumbing, structural and other civil and architectural works of the Enterprise. Plantilla Positions of personnel under this division are as follows: 1 – Labor General Foreman 1 – Electrician 1 – Carpenter 1 – Plumber 3 – Utility Workers (organic) d. Security and Enforcement Section. Responsible on matters relative to the public market policy enforcement and the security of public market facilities. Plantilla Positions of personnel under this division are as follows: 1 – Security Officer 2 – TBCC Security Guard e. Operations and Services Section. Responsible on matters relative to the operations and management of the public market. Plantilla Positions with corresponding salary grades of personnel under this division are as follows: 1 – Market Supervisor II SG-14 (organic) 2 – Market Inspector I

CHAPTER VI - ATITLE II-A – ADMINISTRATION OF THE TBCC

SECTION 1.A. ADMINISTRATION. Pending creation of TBCC Office its administration shall be under the Municipal Mayor or such other office which functions shall be specifically created and assigned by the Sangguniang Bayan. a) The Municipal Mayor shall exercise full direction, supervision and control of the public market including such matters pertaining to cleanliness, sanitation; the standardization, classification and/or grouping or re-grouping of merchandise to be sold in stalls and direction, control and supervision over the Market Supervisor and all other subordinate market personnel. He is also authorized to promulgate such further rules and regulations consistent with the policies laid down in this ordinance. Provided, however, that in matters pertaining to the cleaning and sanitation of stalls and market premises, the Municipal Mayor shall enlist the help and cooperation of the Municipal Health Depart-ment. b) Collection of stall fees, licenses and other fees. All activities incidental to the collection of stall fees, regular or special; the collection of licenses, taxes, and dues from persons or entities doing business in the market; and all accounting work incident to market collections are hereby vested in the Municipal Treasurer; provided, that all market personnel who are engaged wholly or partially in the collection of fees, license and etc., in the new market shall be under the direct administrative control and supervision of the Municipal Treasurer to whom they shall directly be responsible for the diligent performance of their duties in accordance hereof; provided, further, that in the performance of their regular duties the Market Supervisor and all other personnel assigned thereat, shall promptly report to the authorities concerned, all anomalies, irregularities, violations of ordinances and market rules and regulations, or neglect of responsibilities, that may come to their attention in connection with the performance of their assigned duties.

SECTION 2.A. THE MARKET SUPERVISOR. 1) There shall be a Market Supervisor who, under the direction of the Municipal Mayor, is vested with the following powers:



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a. He shall have full control of the administrative direction of all public markets in the municipal-ity; b. He shall detail for duty in the public market of the municipality such as market personnel as may be necessary to carry out the functions incumbent upon him; c. He shall have police powers to summarily enforce provisions of this ordinance and all other ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations governing the operation of the public markets; d. He can compel and/or order market personnel and all persons having dealing with the municipal markets to obey his directions in all matters pertaining and relating to markets. 2) Duties and Functions. The Market Supervisor shall have the following duties and respon-sibilities, to wit: a. He shall be the custodian of all property belonging to the municipal market. b. He shall have supervision and control over all subordinate market employees. c. He shall over see and coordinate the faithful and strict compliance of their respective duties by all officials and employees of the different departments of the Municipal Government assigned to duty in the public markets. d. He shall supervise the smooth operation of the public market as well as the proper discharge of the duties and functions of all subordinate market personnel. e. He shall conduct regular inspections of market stalls to ensure strict implementation of the provisions of this ordinance. SECTION 3.A. DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS COMMON TO ALL MARKET PERSONNEL. 1) Market personnel shall ensure that the stall holders are provided with corresponding official receipts, regular or special tickets for the payment of the stalls occupied by them on any particular day, and to ensure further that occupants regularly pay their rents due for use and occupancy thereof. 2) They shall report to the Market Supervisor or any other responsible market officials for failure or refusal of any stallholder to pay the space or stall rental and/or any other fees, for proper action. 3) All market personnel while in the performance of their duties shall wear uniforms, and identification tags or nameplates, as authorized and prescribed by the Office of the Municipal Mayor to serve as identification of market personnel and as a symbol of authority vested in them. a. Any person not falling under this provision who shall wear the prescribed uniform and/or identification tags or nameplates, or shall perform in any manner the functions of the market personnel or shall pretend or represent himself as authorized to perform such functions, shall be penalized and subjected to the prescribed penalties in Article IV of this ordinance without prejudice to his prosecution under the Revised Penal Code. b. Any market personnel who knowingly allows, tolerates or permits any unauthorized person/s to perform the functions or to wear the prescribed uniform, identification tags or nameplates, shall be subject to the penalties imposed in Article IV of this Ordinance and/or imposed under civil service rules and regulations. SECTION 4.A. POSTING OF RULES AND REGULATIONS. The Market Supervisor shall cause the posting in the bulletin boards in the public market, in English, Pilipino or any prevailing dialect, the rules and regulations relative to the sanitation and good order in the public markets; the manner of leasing stalls, therein, privileges of stall holders, and other regulations as the Sangguniang Bayan may deem necessary. The Market Supervisor shall inform or furnish stallholders copies in English, Pilipino or any prevailing dialect, of the rules and regulations pertaining to the efficient operation of the public market as may hereinafter be promulgated by authorities concerned. SECTION 5.A. BULLETIN BOARD. A bulletin board shall be placed and maintained in or near the Office of the Market Supervisor for purposes of posting orders, circulars, notices, etc., and in any conspicuous location in the public market. SECTION 6.A. SECURITY OUTPOST. There shall be provided security outposts in all entrance and exit points of the market, and in any other location/s recommended by the Municipal Mayor which shall be manned twenty-four (24) hours daily.

Chapter VII

TITLE I. Classification of Sections

Section 1. Market Section. The vendors shall be grouped and classified in accordance with the goods, wares or merchandise sold as follows:a. Wet Section a.1 Fish Section a.2 Meat Section a.3 Dressed Chicken Section a.4 Vegetable Section a.5 Grinding Sectionb. Dry Section b.1 Plastic/ Glassware Section b.2 Footwear Section b.3 Native Products Section b.4 RTW and Textile Section b.5 Novelty /School Supplies Section b.6 Grocery Section b.7 Feeds Section b.8 Grains Sectionc. Services Section c.1 Parlor Section c.2 Restaurant Section c.3 Shoe and Bag Repair Section c.4 Tailoring Services Section c.5 Cold Storage Services Sectiond. Hawker’s Section d.1 Dried Fish Section d.2 Fruit Section d.3 Flowers, Plants and Garden Shop Sectione. Construction Section e.1 Hardware and Electrical Supplies e.2 Electronics and Appliance Section Section 2. Entertainment Section Section 3. Terminal Section Section 4. Cultural and/or Halal Section. There shall be established a section in the TBCC for Cultural and/or Halal Section for cultural/halal products. Section 5. Ground Exterior Stalls The types of business and/or services which are allowed to operate specifically on the ground exterior stalls of the newly constructed perimeter building shall be the following:1. Offices a) Hardware but no cement b) Drugstore/Medical supplies/Herbal supplement c) Pawnshops/Money changer d) Auto/Motor spare parts, accessories and bicycle parts e) Electronics and Electrical supplies f) Jewelries and watches g) School/Office Supplies h) Books/Newspapers/Magazines i) Lending Shops/Savings Bank j) Glass and Aluminum k) Lotto Outlets l) Medical/Optical/Dental/Veterinary Clinics m) Ceramic Products n) Internet Café o) Tailoring/Dress Shops p) Laundry Shop q) Beauty Parlor & SPA/Beauty Cosmetics Products (excluding Barber shop) r) Souvenir items s) Agricultural & Veterinary Supply t) Pet Shop u) Water Refilling Stations v) Sports Supplies w) Freight Forwarders x) Furnitures SECTION 6. MARKET HOURS. The Tubod Business Community Center shall be opened for the sale of articles or merchandise permitted for sale therein from four o’clock (3:00A.M.) in the morning until eight thirty (9:00 P.M.) in the evening every day during the year, Provided, that on the twenty-fourth (24th) and thirty-first (31st) day of December of every year, the public market shall be opened from four o’clock (3:00 AM) in the morning until eleven o’clock (11:00PM) in the evening. Except the Bus Terminal, Entertainment Section and to include those in the exterior ground stalls which shall have no time limit of their business hours. SECTION 7. OPENING AND CLOSING OF THE MARKETS. The Tubod Business Community Center shall be provided with electric buzzers to announce the opening and closing of the market for business, with short intermittent buzzer before the time fixed for such opening and closing. a) BEFORE OPENING. At the sound of the buzzer thirty (30) minutes before the time fixed for opening the market, only stallholders and their helpers shall be allowed to enter and go to their stalls in preparation for business at the opening of the market. b) BEFORE OPENING . At the sound of the buzzer thirty (30) minutes before the time fixed for closing the market, only stallholders and their helpers shall, as the case may be, arrange and store their merchandise at a convenient place at their stalls and padlock or at their option may remove the same from such stalls. All gates except the main exit gate shall be closed and the marketers shall leave the market premises. At the fixed time for closing, the electric buzzer shall again be made to sound and the main exit gate shall be closed. c) RINGING THIRTY (30) MINUTES AFTER CLOSING. Thirty (30) minutes after closing, the buzzer shall again be resounded and the main exit gate shall be opened for a period of fifteen (15) minutes for the purpose of allowing the stallholders and their helpers to leave the market. No person except the night watchmen, market guards or market personnel rendering service during the specified time shall be allowed to stay within the market compound after the final bell shall have been rung.

TITLE II. Collection of Fees

Section 1. Market Rental Fees for market stalls, rooms, booths are as follows:

Particulars Rent (in Pesos) a. Meat/Poultry 1,000/mo. /stall b. Fish/Marine Products 1,000/mo. /stall c. Vegetables 1,000/mo. /stall d. Grinding Section 3,000/mo. /bt e. RTW and Textile 3,000/mo. /bt f. Glassware 3,000/mo. /bt g. Footwear 3,000/mo. /bt h. Native 3,000/mo. /bt i. Grocery 3,000/mo. /bt j. Grains 3,000/mo. /bt k. Parlor 3,000/mo. /bt l. Novelty 3,000/mo. /bt m. School/Office Supplies 3,000/mo. /bt n. Shoe/Bag Repair 3,000/mo. /bt o. Tailoring 3,000/mo. /bt p. Restaurant 3,000/mo. /bt q. Feeds 1,000/mo. /stall

Section 2. Entertainment Section. Entertainment booths/rooms are as follows:Particulars Rent (in Pesos) Entertainment booth 7,000/mo. Section 3. Terminal Section. a. A Terminal Fee, Sanitation Service Fee (SSF) shall be collected from all public utility vehicles soliciting passengers at the TBCC, as follows: Type of Vehicle Fees SSF (in Pesos) (in Pesos) Bus 20.00/trip 2.00/tripVan 10.00/trip 2.00/tripJeepney 10.00/trip 2.00/tripMotorcab 6.00/day 2.00/day b. A Parking Fee, Sanitation Service Fee (SSF) shall be collected from all public utility vehicles parking within the designated areas of TBCC, as follows:

Type of Vehicle Fees SSF (in Pesos) (in Pesos) Truck/Delivery Van 15.00/parking 2.00/parkingDelivery Jeepney 10.00/parking 2.00/parkingDelivery Motorcab 5.00/parking 1.00/parking d. A Rental Fee shall be collected from all spaces used for business at the TBCC Terminal Section, as follows:

Space Rental Fees (in Pesos) Stalls 20.00/sqm/dayMagazine Display Stand 500.00/mo

e. An Advertisement/Signage Fee shall collected from designated spaces used for advertisements at the TBCC Terminal Section, as follows:

Space Rental Fees (in Pesos) Advertisement/SignageGround Exterior Stall 20.00/sqm/mo Note: Excluding other fees subject for guidelines.

Section 4. Transfer Permit Fee. A Transfer Permit Fee (TPF), shall be imposed on all fish and other aquatic products brought in and are intended for resale outside of Barangay San Antonio, Tubod, Lanao del Norte., as follows:

Particulars TPF (in Pesos) 100 kg and below 10.00101 kg but less than 1,000 kg 15.001,001 kg and above 35.00

Section 5. Packing Area and Service Charges. Packing area shall be designated within the vicinity of the Fish Landing of the TBCC where inspection of fish, verification of packing procedures and collection of fees are made. For this purpose a service charge of Five Pesos (P5.00) per 30-kg banera will be collected. Section 6. Penal Provision. Any person found selling fish and other aquatic food products unfit for human consumption shall be fined as follows:

Offense Fine (in Pesos) 1st Offense 1,000.002nd Offense 2,000.003rd Offense 2,500.00 plus prohibition from engaging business buying and selling fish and other aquatic products in the Municipality of Tubod, Lanao del Norte and revocation of his/her business permit and/or business clearance issued by Barangay San Antonio

Section 7. Payment of Cash Tickets/Arkabala. The payment of cash tickets or ARKABALA shall be done daily which will be collected by authorized Revenue Collections and shall be remitted to the TBCC Cashier. The TBCC Cashier shall deposit such collection daily to the official municipal depository bank. Section 8. Market Entrance Fee. A Market Entrance Fee shall be imposed on all transient wholesale vendors of any commodity or merchandise being brought into the business center for busi-ness for sale, as follows:

Particulars Fees (in Pesos) Rice, Corn, Sugar, Flour or similar commoditiesFruits and VegetablesDressed Chicken and other Frozen ProductsFresh EggsDried and Salted FishMongo, Beans and Ginger placed in sack 2.00/sack 0.50/sackFish and Other Aquatic Products 0.30/kg 0.05/kgMeat and Other By-products 0.30/kg 0.05/kgPromotional Sales/Product Demonstration 300.00/day 100.00/day

Section 9. Imposition of Fees. A Fee and Educational Support Program Fee (ESPF) shall be imposed for the following documents.

Particulars Fees ESPF (in Pesos) (in Pesos)Clearance for Renewal of Business Permit 200.00 20.00Certification 100.00 10.00

TITLE III. The TBCC Vegetable Dropping Zone (BAGSAKAN)

Section 1. Policy. There shall be one designated area in the TBCC which shall be the dropping zone or “bagsakan” of all vegetables, fruits, spices, and other related products intended for sale within the business center or which is intended for resale later to other markets outside of Barangay San Antonio. Only licensed vegetable dealers, licensed fruit dealers or licensed wholesalers of fruits and vegetables can transact business at the “bagsakan” area, however legitimate farmer-producers can directly sell their products at the “bagsakan” after payment of the corresponding market fees, as provided under this Code. Section 2. “Bagsakan” Rental Rates. The Rental Fee shall be collected from the “Bagsakan” Area, as follows:

Particulars Fees (in Pesos) For every 50 kg 1.00Storage Fee 1.25/sack or bukag or boxParking Fee - Elf and jeepney 50.00/unit - Forward and Truck 100.00/unit

TITLE IV. Vegetable and Fruits “Laray” Section

Section 1. Payment of Cash Tickets/Arkabala. The payment of Cash Tickets or Arkabala shall be done daily which will be collected by authorized Revenue Collectors and shall be remitted to the TBCC Cashier. The TBCC Cashier shall deposit such collection daily to the official municipal depository bank.

Particulars Fees (in Pesos) Cash Ticket Table Size = 1.0mx1.5m Time of Display: -Monday to Saturday (4:00AM – 7:00PM 15.00/table -Sunday (Whole Day) 30.00/table

TITLE V. The TBCC Livestock Center

Section 1. Policy. There shall be one designated area in the TBCC for any livestock or poultry products intended for sale within the livestock center or which is intended for resale later to other markets outside Barangay San Antonio. Section 2. Animal Inspection and Weighing. Any livestock or poultry products for sale within the TBCC Livestock Center must first undergo inspection by the livestock inspector for grading and checking of the required papers. A certificate of ownership (credential) shall be required from any dealer of large cattle. In cases where there are no ownership credentials presented, a certificate of ownership from the Punong Barangay from the point of origin of the animal shall be presented with an attached government accountable form (AF-51) showing proof of payment of said certification fee. After inspection, animals are then weighed at the TBCC Livestock Center weighing scale after which necessary fees are paid to the TBCC Revenue Collectors. Section 3. Imposition of Livestock and Poultry Product Fees. The Inspection Fee, Weighing Fee, are as follows:

Particulars Inspection Fee Weighing Fee (in Pesos) (in Pesos) Hog 15.00/head 15.00/headGoat/Sheep 10.00/head 10.00/headPoultry 2.00/head 1.00/head

Section 4. Imposition of Corral Pen Fees. The Rental are as follows:

Particulars Fees (in Pesos) Hog(Dimension – 2.0mx5.0m) 30.00/dayGoat(Dimension – 2.0mx2.5m) 25.00/dayPoultry(Dimension – 2.mx1.0m) 15.00/day

Section 5. Prohibition Clause. Display of Livestock and poultry products outside the TBCC Livestock Auction Center is strictly prohibited

TITLE VI. Special Market Days

Section 1. Policy. There shall be declared special market days during Saturdays and Sundays of every week conducted within the designated areas of TBCC.

Section 2. Imposition of Fees. A Rental Fee shall be imposed, as follows:

Particulars Rental Fee (in Pesos) Stalls 60.00/table/dayOpen Space 5.00/sqm/day

TITLE VII. The Use of the TBCC Park

Section 1. Imposition of Fees. A Fee, shall be imposed for using the TBCC Park facility, as follows:

Particulars Fees (in Pesos) Rental: -With audio & lighting system 1,500.00/day -With audio only 1,000.00/day -Space only 500.00/day

TITLE VIII. The Night Market at the TBCC

Section 1. Policy. There shall be declared a night market every Friday night and Saturday night at the designated areas of TBCC where goods, merchandise, foodstuffs, commodities, or articles of commerce may be sold and dispense to the general public from 6:00 PM to 3:00 AM. Section 2. Goods not allowed in the night market. The following are not allowed at the night market:

a. Livestockb. Heavy and Bulky Hardwarec. Pungent and odorous goods offensive to the smell

Section 3. Imposition of Fees. A Cash Ticket, shall be collected, as follows:

Particulars Fees (in Pesos) Food Cart: -Grilled Chicken/Pork/Fish 50.00/night -Carenderia 50.00/night -Others 25.00/nightWith Dining Table -4-seaters and less 10.00/table -5-seaters and more 20.00/table

Section 4: GOODWILL FEE- A goodwill fee of Twenty Thousand (P20,000) shall be paid by the legitimate stallholders and Thirty Thousand (P30,000) per stall by new applicant upon awarding of the stall. The Goodwill fee shall be imposed only upon opening of the Tubod Business and Com-munity Center. Good-will fee is non- refundable.

Section 5: TRANSFER FEE: There shall be imposed a Transfer Fee in the amount of One Thousand Five Hundred Pesos (Php 1,500) to be paid by the existing original occupant if and when an early termination occurs by his/her voluntary transfer to any qualified transferee intending to make business, in the Tubod Business and Community Center and a qualified successor will take over the said stall, booth/Space.

Chapter IX

TITILE I: AWARDING OF STALLS

Section 1. Manner of Awarding Stalls. The awarding of the stalls in the TBCC shall be governed on the following manner:

a. All open spaces for rent within the Tubod Business Community Center (TBCC) premises are open to all applicants subject to the authorization and ratification of the Sangguniang Bayan upon the recommendations of the TBCC Management Committee and with the approval of the Municipal Mayor, provided, that first priority shall be given to accommodate legitimate stallholders in the application and awarding of stall rights. Applicants shall be Filipino citizens and residents of the Municipality of Tubod, Lanao del Norte. b. The ambulant and transient vendors based on the records of the Tubod Public Market Office and in the Municipal Treasurer’s Office shall be given second preference in the adjudication of stalls in the TBCC. c. If on the last day set for filing applications, there is still no resident applicant, the stall af-fected may be leased to any non-resident applicant who filed his/her application first. If there are several applicants, the adjudication of the stalls shall be made through the drawing of lots/raffles to be conducted by the TBCC Management Committee on the date and hour specified in the Notice of Vacancy. The result of the drawing of lots/raffles shall be reported immediately by the TBCC Management Committee to the Sangguniang Bayan for their information. d. The stallholder/vendor shall be assigned a stall according to the nature of the merchandise/line of business he/she intends to sell/do. e. A stallholder/vendor shall not be allowed to occupy a stall/space other than those leased to him/her, and it shall be the duty of the TBCC Management Office to see to it that the stallholder does not occupy other stalls/spaces. f. No person shall be allowed to lease more than one (1) stall. No stallholder shall be allowed to occupy stall other than that leased to him/her. It shall be a violation of this section for more than one member of a family consisting of the father, mother, sons and daughters to hold stalls in one market unless these sons and daughters are living separately from their parents. g. In case of a couple having two or more legitimate stalls, they shall be allowed to retain only one of those stalls and register the same in the name of either the husband or the wife, while the rest shall be waived to their nearest kin (up to the 4th civil degree). h. The awarding of vacant stalls/spaces in the TBCC shall be done through public raffle to be administered by the Management Committee, if there are more than one applicants applying. In the case of one applicant, the Management Committee will award the same provided such applicant meets the requirements set by this Code or by the Management Committee.

Section 2. Adjudication of Vacant Stalls to Applicants. Vacant stalls shall be leased to applicants in the following manner:

a. Notice of vacancy at the stalls or booths shall be posted in the bulletin boards of the Municipal Hall and the TBCC Management Office for a period of not less than ten (10) days prior to the



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date of the actual award to qualified applicants to appraise the public of the fact that such stalls or booths are vacant and available for lease. The notice of vacancy shall be written on a cardboard, thick paper or any suitable material. b. The Notice of Vacancy to be posted or published shall be written in the following form:

N O T I C E

Notice is hereby given that stall, room, space, booth No. __, Building No. __ of the __________ Section of Tubod Business Community Center is vacant (or will be vacant) on ___________. Any person duly qualified and desiring to lease this stall, room, space or booth shall file an application therefore on the prescribed form (copies may be obtained from the TBCC Management Office during office hours on __________, _____, after which time no more applications shall be issued. The award of the lease of the vacant stall, room, space or booth shall be determined through raffle to be conducted on __________, _____ o’clock AM/PM at _________________________.

c. Interested applicants shall file their applications to the Market Supervisor who in turn shall issue an order of payment for application fee to be presented to the Municipal Treasurer’s Office, in the amount of One Thousand Pesos (P1,000.00), non-refundable from the Municipal Government of Tubod, Lanao del Norte.

d. The application shall be made under oath. It shall be submitted to the TBCC Management Office by the applicant either in person or through his/her authorized representative.

e. It shall be the duty of the Market Supervisor to keep a Registry Book showing the names and addresses of all applicants for vacant space or spaces, the number and description of the stall/space applied for by them, and the date and hour of receipt of each application. It shall also be the duty of the Market Supervisor to acknowledge receipt of the application setting forth therein the time and date of receipt thereof.

f. Aside from the duly accomplished application form, interested applicants shall also submit the following documents, namely: f.1 Community Tax Certificate f.2 Health Certificate f.3 Barangay Clearance f.4 Voter’s Affidavit f.5 Police Clearance f.6 Copy of Official Receipt of Payment of Application Fee f.7 Other requirements that may be imposed by the TBCC Management Committee

g. The successful applicant shall furnish the TBCC Management Committee two (2) copies of his/her recent picture immediately after the award of the lease. It shall be the duty of the Market Supervisor to affix one (1) copy of the picture to the application and other copy to the record card kept for the purpose.

h. The format of the Application to Lease Market Stall shall be written as follows:

APPLICATION TO LEASE MARKET STALL________________Address

Date

The Municipal MayorTubod, Lanao del Norte

Sir/Madam:

I, ____________________, hereby apply to lease Stall No. ____, of the Tubod Business Community Center. I am _____ Years Old, a citizen of the _______________ and residing at _______________.

Should the above-mentioned stall, room, booth or space be leased to me in accordance with the market rules and regulations, I promise to hold under the following conditions:

a) That while I am occupying or leasing this stall, room, booth or space, I shall at all times have my picture and that of my helper (or helpers) conveniently framed and hanged up conspicuously in the stall, room, booth or space.;

b) I shall keep the stall, room, booth or space at all times in good sanitary condition and comply strictly with all pertinent market laws, code, ordinances, rules and regulations now existing or which may hereafter be promulgated’

c) I shall pay the corresponding rents for the stall, room, booth or space, in the manner prescribed by existing ordinance/code;

d) I shall not sell nor transfer my privilege to the stall, room, booth or space, or otherwise sublease or permit another person to conduct business thereon;

e) Any violation on my part or on the part of my helpers of the foregoing conditions shall be sufficient cause for the Municipal Mayor/TBCC Management Committee to cancel my lease contract; and

f) I further certify that I have read and understood the provisions set forth in this application form and all the hereto attached and submitted other required documents and papers are correct, authentic and/or based on official records.

Very truly yours,

________________

Applicant

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this ____ day of ___________, ________, at Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Philippines, affiant applicant exhibiting to me his/her Community Tax Certficate No. ________, issued on _________ at Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Philippines.

________________Administering Officer

Doc. No. ________;Page No.________;Book No.________;Series of________;

SECTION 3. DURATION OF LEASE OF STALLS. The regular lease of market stalls or booths, shall be a period of one (1) year and shall be renewable every year thereafter unless the Municipal Mayor revokes the permit, cancels the lease, or any reasonable or just cause, or for any violation of the provision of this Ordinance or any other ordinances, or any rules and regulations relating to the administration of the public market and the corresponding guarantee deposit be forfeited.

SECTION 4. DEATH OF LESSEE. Upon the death of the lawful holder of any stall of the Tubod Business Community Center, the legal spouse or the legal heirs who are qualified are allowed to continue to occupy said stall upon payment of the corresponding fees and execution of a new lease contract.

SECTION 5. PERSONAL ADMINISTRATION/MANAGEMENT OF STALLS AND EMPLOYMENT OF HELPERS. Any person leasing or hereafter lease stalls in the public markets in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance shall occupy, administer and be present personally at his stall or booths, provided, that upon application filed with the Office of the Market Supervisor duly approved by the Municipal Mayor, the stallholders leasing stalls under this Ordinance shall be authorized to employ stall helpers who must be citizens of the Philippines, provided, however, that the spouses, the parents and children of the stallholders who are not actually living with him/her and who are not disqualified under this ordinance, may be registered as helpers without the necessity of the applica-tion herein prescribed, provide, further, that the persons recommended for appointment as helpers shall under no circumstances be persons with whom the stallholders requesting the appointment, have any partnership or commercial relation or transaction, resolved, finally, that the appointment of stall helpers shall not relieve the stallholders of the duty to personally administer the business and of being personally present at his stall or booth everyday.

SECTION 6. VACATION LEAVE AND SICK LEAVE OF STALLHOLDERS.

a) Absence for short duration not exceeding seven (7) days may be allowed to a stallholder, provided, that an advance notice of the intention to be absent be given to the Municipal Treasurer or the Market Supervisor in writing, stating therein the reasons for such absence, provide, further, that an absence of thirty (30) consecutive days shall constitute prima facie evidence that the stallholder may have leased the stall to another person, or has violated Section 17, Article III hereof, and shall be sufficient cause for the cancellation of the lease contract, provided, further, that where such stallholder continues to be absent from his stall or booth for a period of more than seven (7) days, he or she shall submit to the Market Supervisor a supplemental notice thereof, accompanied by a medical certificate under oath, in case of illness, or evidences supporting said application, which the Market Supervisor shall forward such application to the Municipal Treasurer, provided, however, that the period to leave of absence a stallholder may enjoy not exceeding one (1) month for every year

of stay in his or her stall, and provided, finally, that the maximum period of leave that may be granted to a stallholders, shall not exceed four (4) months. During the stallholder’s absence, as provided for in the section, one of his or her helpers duly registered for in this Section shall be authorized to continue the business.

b) Failure of a stallholders to return to and resume business at his stall after the expiration of the leave granted shall be deemed sufficient cause for the cancellation of the leave, unless decided by the TBCC Management Committee.

SECTION 7. LIMITATION FOR THE LEASE OF MARKET STALLS. No person, natural or juridi-cal, shall be allowed to lease more than one (1) stall in any section of the public market except for the fresh fish and meat sections wherein an applicant/awardee may be allowed to lease a maximum of two (2) stalls, the one family, one stall policy shall apply to all other stalls in the public market. It shall be a violation of this section for more than one member of a family consisting of a father, mother, sons and/or daughters to hold more than one family leasing a stall or applying for lease are already married with families of their own support, or when these sons or daughters are already living by themselves and independently of their father and/or mother, provided, that any person, after proper investigation, found to have violated the above provisions, shall be ordered or required to immediately vacate the stall or booth, illegally occupied, and his/her guarantee deposit will be forfeited.

SECTION 8. DUMMIES, SUB-LEASING OR SALE OF STALLS. Dummies, sub-leasing and sale of stalls in the public market shall be considered criminal acts. The person/s who put-up the dummy and the dummy himself, the sub-lessor and the sub-lease, and/or sellers and buyers of any stall in the public market shall be held criminally liable. Acquisition of stalls in the public market by any applicant shall be under the direct supervision and control of the Market Administrator/Supervisor and shall be qualified only under proper processes or provided in this ordinance. Where the person, natural or juridical, whose name appears in the official register as stallholder in the public market, is not in reality the same person who is actually and personally occupying the subject stall or booth, the lease contract, business permit and all other documents relative to the busi-ness operation shall be deemed cancelled or voided. The lease contract and business permit shall likewise be cancelled and revoked should, upon verification, the person appearing in the official register be positively identified as a dummy and subsequently the forfeiture of his/her guarantee deposit.

Chapter XTITLE I: WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Section 1: There shall be weight and measure fees herein below mentioned as follows:

Fees for selling of weights measure New RateWith capacity of not more than 30kgs P200.00With capacity of more than 30kgs but not more than 300kgs 250.00With capacity of more than 300kgs but not more than 300kgs 300.00With capacity of more than 300kgs 500.00

Section 2: SPECIFIC REGULATIONS. 1. The use of under weighed scales or the placing of any metal, gadget or concealed materials in a weighing scale, in such a manner as to reflect a greater weight other than the rue weight of any goods or merchandise, is prohibited. 2. All weights, measure and similar devices used by any person engaged in trade and commerce involving goods and other commodities, the value of which is determined by weight or measure, shall be registered with the Municipal Treasurer prior to the use of such devices. 3. All weights, measure and similar devices already registered under the provisions of this Code shall be submitted to the Municipal Treasurer for re-inspection or re-sealing annually. 4. During official inspection by the market inspection, all scales in the stalls, store or establish-ment, whether actually being used at the time of inspection or not, are required to be exhibited by the owner/vendor to the inspector. Any scale not exhibited, concealed and/or not voluntarily shown but which was discovered during inspection shall be confiscated and destroyed.

Chapter XITITLE I: RESTRICTIONS ON MARKET STALLS

Section 1: RESTRICTIONS AND PROHIBITIONS. 1. The peddling or display for sale of foodstuff, goods, wares, or any merchandise outside of the market stall be strictly prohibited. 2. Holding of parlor games of any kind and for any purpose shall not be allowed within the market premises. 3. No market stalls or booths shall be utilized for residential and/or boarding/lodging purposes. 4. The sale of liquor, beer, tuba, basi and other intoxicating drinks and /or drinking of the same shall not be allowed within the perimeter of the public market. 5. No deposit of inflammable materials such as petroleum, gasoline, and other combustible items shall not be allowed within the markets and market premises. 6. No person shall be allowed to install, play or operate jukeboxes/ videokes inside the public markets of this municipality. 7. All sections of the public markets shall be allowed to sell or display for sale only items the respective sections are explicitly authorized to sell. 8. The use of firewood, charcoal and/or kerosene stoves for food processing, cooking and heating purposes is strictly prohibited in the public market. Only LPG and electric stoves are allowed for use within the carenderia/cafeteria section. 9. The sale or display for sale of charcoal, firewood and flammable or combustible liquid shall not be allowed within the perimeter of the public markets. 10. No person shall be allowed to operate any form of eateries to include carenderia, refreshment parlor, cafeterias and the like in the ground floor stalls of the market except on the designated areas provided under this code. 11. No person and/ or stallholder shall be allowed to use or utilize any areas which are purport-edly market corridors, pedestrian lanes, sidewalks, alleys,road or streets, for the purpose of selling, displaying and/or storing of merchandise and other commodities. 12. No stall shall be utilized as storage room, warehouse or bodega. 13. No Person shall sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale any articles or goods in the public market or use any stall without first having been assigned to a stall in the manner provided herein. i. Stallholders shall not be allowed to occupy stalls or space other than those leased to them, and it shall be the duty of the Market Supervisor and his subordinates to enforce the provisions of this section and all alike provisions of this ordinance. ii. All other stalls and spaces in the market complex shall be utilized in accordance with the prescribed usage and plan. 14. PROHIBITED STRUCTURES INSIDE THE PUBLIC MARKET. No shanty structure in the nature of the independent room or rooms shall be permitted to be constructed in or about the public market, except the buildings authorized for offices or market personnel or other municipal purposes. Any shanty or structure illegally constructed shall immediately be demolished and/or be demolished at the expense of the owner and with corresponding fine or penalty. 15. MARKET CARRIERS. No person shall engage in the occupation of carrier in the Tubod Business Community Center unless he is first registered as such in the office the Market Supervisor. Each carrier duly authenticated by the Market Supervisor shall be provided with a registration certificate and an identification card of approved size and design which shall be worn conspicuously at all times while working as carrier. For the issuance of such certificates and identification card, the Municipal Treasurer shall collect such amount necessary to cover the cost thereof. The Market Supervisor with the approval of the Municipal Mayor shall have the power to regulate and fix such number of carriers in the public markets and no person with a record of conviction of any crime against property or person shall be allowed to register as carrier. Any person convicted of any such crime after he registered as carrier. Any person convicted of any such crime after he registered as carrier shall be immediately dropped from the list of carriers kept in the office of the Municipal Treasurer/Market Supervisor and his identification card confiscated, provided, that the occupation of carrier in the Tubod Business Community Center shall be exclusive for citizens of the Philippines, provided, further, that registration of the carriers selected by the Market Supervisor shall be renewable from year to year. For purpose of this Ordinance, a “carrier” is a person who, for a consideration, hauls, transports, or conveys merchandise, goods, wares, foodstuffs, and other articles, into or out of the public markets, on behalf of the owner/s or of the stallholders or lessees thereof. 16. PEDDLERS, HAWKERS, COURTS (PATIOS) SIDEWALKS, ETC. Peddlers or hawkers shall not be permitted in the public market of the municipality or its surrounding within the radius of 100 meters from its confines. Market Officials, employees and gate guards, and policemen assigned or detailed in the vicinity shall exercise strict vigilance in the implementation thereof and are enjoined to strictly comply with these provisions. 17. LOAFING, LOITERING AND BEGGING. No person having no lawful business in or about the public market shall idly sit, lounge or lie in or about the passageway, nor shall any person beg, solicit alms or contributions in or about the public market of the municipality. 18. MEAT SECTION. All stallholders in the meat section shall be strictly required to install ap-propriate and conspicuous signs/placards of the kinds of meat he or she is putting up for sale. No meat, therefore, shall be sold or offered for sale, introduced, placed, exposed, stored or kept in the stall without such identifying signs. Mixing both meat and beef shall be prohibited, nor shall not be allowed pork and beef in the manufacture of sausages. Any violation of this provision shall aside from the cancellation of the lease contract and business permit, and forfeiture of the guarantee deposit, be penalized in accordance with the provisions of Article IV of this Ordinance. 19. POLICY ON ABANDONED ARTICLES. All articles abandoned in the public market, in viola-tion of any provision of this Ordinance or any rules and regulations relating to the management of the public market, shall be deemed a nuisance and it shall be the duty of the Market Supervisor, and his subordinates to take custody of the same. In case the article are claimed within twenty-four (24) hours thereafter, they shall be returned to their respective owners upon payment of actual expenses incurred in the safe keeping of same unless the articles have so deteriorated as to constitute hazard to the public health, in which case, they shall be sold at public auction, and the proceeds thereof, disposed of in accordance with the law. 20. LOOSE ANIMALS. No dogs or animals shall be left astray in the public market. The Market Supervisor and his subordinates are hereby empowered to catch any stray animals and to impound them for release to their respective owners or disposed of the same at his discretion. 21. LIABILITY OF STALLHOLDERS LOSSES. The municipal government shall not be held responsible or liable for any loss/s or damages which a stallholder might incur in the public markets by reason of fire, theft, negligence or any other causes, any merchandise or property left in the public markets during the hours the public markets are closed shall be at the risk of the stallholders, pro-vided, however, that it shall be the duty and obligation of the Market Supervisor and his subordinates

to exercise reasonable diligence and care to prevent the loss of any property, public or private, in the public market and for this purpose, shall apprehend and turn over to the police any person/s committing any offense in the public markets.

Chapter XII

TITLE I: MAINTENANCE OF TUBOD BUSINESS COMMUNITY CENTER

Section I: Maintenance of Public Markets

1. Cleaning of Market Premises -Provide at least 2 garbage receptacles for every stalls -Establish MRF -LGU/TBCC Market management shall provide 3 receptacles -Assigned utility workers for the entire TBCC area/market premises -Assigned Electrician, Plumber and Carpenter at TBCC

2. Public Toilets and Washing Facilities Repair and maintenance -Ensure the efficient operation and maintenance of sanitation in the establishment and its premises - comply with the implementing rules and regulations -adequate and clean toilet facilities for male and female customers and personnel shall be provided properly -toilet rooms shall not be open directly into spaces where foods is prepared, stored or served, where such toilet exist, the doors shall be light- fitting and self- closing -adequate hand- washing facilities shall be provided within or adjacent to toilet room -facilities shall include hot and cold running water, single-service paper or cloth towel dispenser or dying device and soap or detergent. -make periodic inspection to ascertain the maintenance of adequate sanitary conditions of markets and their premises, should be done.

3. Sanitation The provision of Sanitary Ordinance as adopted by the Municipality of Tubod and all pertinent sanitary orders, rules and regulations issued by the Director of Health or his duly authorized repre-sentative in the Municipal Government, and all other sanitary ordinances that may be enacted from time to time by the Sangguniang Bayan, shall apply to the municipal public market It should be the responsibility of the occupants to maintain the cleanliness and sanitation of their premises during the duration and immediately after the closing of market day -occupants are obliged to place their solid waste in disposable container properly kept at the side of the gutter of the road, its top opening tied or sealed to avoid scattering or spillage for convenient collection by garbage trucks. -liquid waste must be placed in a container and disposal at the drainage canals. -no solid waste shall be discharged to the drainage canal. The ground surface shall be properly drained, paved and/or cemented and shall standards stalls and other fixtures shall be constructed in such manner as recommended by the Municipal Engineer or his duly authorized representative as approved by the Sangguniang Bayan 4. Electrical Connections The following policies shall be observed in the public market in the municipality in the use of electrical connections and services. 1) The Municipal Government policies shall be observed in the public market in the municipality in the use of electrical connections and services. 2) All lighting systems in the market alleys and/or passageways, open spaces and along the perimeter fence shall be provided and maintained by the municipal government through the Market Supervisor. 3) Electric meters and lighting materials such as bulbs of fluorescent lamps, electric wire and other electric materials that shall be required by the Office of the Market Supervisor for the individual stalls will be provided by the stallholders including the daily operating and maintenance cost. 4) Calibration fees and other incidental expenses on the electric meter shall be borne by the stallholders. 5) All electrical connections, alterations, repairs and/or maintenance shall be done only by persons authorized by the Market Supervisor.

5. Mechanical and Plumbing All plumbing and mechanical works for the stall shall conform with the following policies to wit: 1) All repairs and/or alterations of the existing connections shall be done only by competent persons authorized by the management. 2) Stallholders shall be required to report immediately to the Office of the Market Supervisor any malfunction/defect of its water system, electrical connection, drainage facilities, lavatories and comfort rooms, and other related problems.

Section 2. Time and manner of payment. a. For stalls. The fee for the rental of market stalls shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer of his duly authorized representative within the first twenty (20) days of each month. In case of a new lease, the rental due for the month in which the lease starts, shall be paid before the occupancy of the stall. b. For occupancy of market premises. /the fee for the occupancy of market premises shall be paid daily, in advance, before any commodity or merchandise is sold within the market premises. c. For market entrance fee. The market entrance fee shall be collected before the transient vendors are allowed to sell their goods.

Section 3. Issuance of official receipt and cash tickets. The Municipal Treasurer of his duly authorized representative shall issue an official receipt as evidence of payment of rentals of fixed stalls.

a. A cash ticket shall be issued to an occupant of the market premises or transient vendor and his name shall be written on the back thereof. The cash tickets shall pertain only to the person buying the same and shall be good only for the space of the market premises to which is assigned. If a vendor dispose of his merchandise by wholesale to another vendor, the later shall purchase new tickets if he sells the same merchandise, even if such sale is done in the same place occupied by the previous vendor. The cash ticket issued shall be torn in half, one to be given to the space occupant or vendor and the other half to be retained by the market collector who shall deliver the same to the Municipal Treasurer for counter-checking against his record of cash tickets issued by him for that day. (To be stamped with date and initial of the collector)

Section 4 . Surcharge for the late or non-payment of fees. The lessee of a stall, who fails to pay the monthly rental fee within the prescribed period, shall pay a surcharge of twenty-five percent (25%) of he total rent due. Failure to pay the rental fee for three (3) consecutive months shall cause automatic cancellation of the contract of lease or stall without prejudice to suing the lessee for the unpaid rents at the expenses of the lessee. Thereafter, the stall shall be declared vacant and will be subjected to the adjudication process. Any person occupying space in the market premises without first paying the fee imposed in this Articles shall pay three (3) times as much as the regular rate for the space occupied.

CHAPTER XIIIFishery Rentals, Fees and Charges

TITLE I. Application of its Provisions

Section 1. Provisions.

The provisions of this ordinance shall be enforced in: 1. All the municipal waters, as defined in this ordinance; 2. All fisheries and coastal resources in the municipal waters; 3. All fisheries and coastal activities or business relating to the use, development, conservation and management of the municipal waters and its coastal and fisheries resources; and 4. All people, entries or corporation that use and/or intend to use the coastal and fishery resources of the municipality.

Section 2 . Definition of Terms:

As used in this ordinance, the following terms and phrases shall mean as follows: 1. Aquaculture – Fishery operations involving all forms of raising and culturing fish and fishery species in fresh water and brackish water areas. 2. Aquatic/Coastal Pollution – the introduction of substances by human or machine, directly or indirectly, to the coastal environment which result or likely to result in such deleterious effects as to harm living and non-living fishery and coastal resources; pose potential and/or real hazard to human health; hindrance to coastal activities such as fishing and navigation, including dumping/disposal of waste and other marine litter; discharge of petroleum, and other radioactive, noxious or harmful liquid, gaseous or solid substances, from any water, land or other human-made structures. Deforestation, unsound agricultural practice such as the use of banned chemicals and excessive use of chemicals, intensive use of artificial fish feed, and wetland conversion, which cause similar hazards and deleterious effects shall also constitute aquatic or coastal pollution. 3. Closed Season – the period during which the taking of specified fishery species by a speci-fied fishing gear is prohibited in all specified area or areas in the municipal waters. 4. Coastal Area/Zone – is a band of dry land and adjacent ocean space (water and submerged land) in which terrestrial processes and uses directly after oceanic processes and uses, and vice-versa; its geographical extent may include mangroves swamps, brackish water ponds, nipa swamps, estuarine rivers, sandy beaches and other areas within seaward limit of 200 meters isobaths to include coral reefs, algal flats, sea grass beds and other soft bottom areas. 5. Commercial Fishing – the taking of fishery species by passive or active gear for trade, business or profit beyond subsistence or sports fishing, to be further classified as: Small-Scale Commercial Fishing – fishing with by passive or active gear utilizing vessels of 3.1 gross tons (GT) up to 20 GT; Medium-Scale Commercial Fishing – fishing with passive or active gear utilizing fishing vessels of 20.1 GT up to 150 GT; and Large-Scale Commercial Fishing – fishing with passive or active gear utilizing vishing



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vessel of more than 150 GT. 6. Coral Marine Animal, Anthozoan and cnidarians Coelenterates – consisting of polyps and the rigid skeletal structure they produce. The living animal with its skeleton and the skeleton alone are both referred to as coral. Included are members of the genus Corallium, characterized by a thorny, horny axis of compact calcareous or horny specious and usually characterized by calcareous skeleton. 7. Coral Reef – geological features built by natural calcification and other deposits from corals and calcareous algae. 8. Department – shall mean Department of Agriculture 9. FARMC – shall mean Fisheries And Aquatic Resources Management Council 10. Fish Cage – any method of culturing fin fish in a fish enclosure which is either stationary or floating made up of netting or screen sewn or fastened together and installed in the water with opening at the surface and held in place by wooden post or various anchors floats. 11. Fish Coral – a stationary well or trap devised and capture fish consisting of rows of bamboo stakes, plastic nets and other materials fenced with split bamboo matting or wire matting with one or more enclosures usually with easy entrance but difficult exit, and with and without leaders to direct the fish to the catching chambers, purse or bags. 12. Fisheries – refers to all activities relating to the act or business of fishing, culturing, preserving, processing, marketing, developing, conserving and managing fishery resources. 13. Fishery License – a document that qualify a person/cooperative/partnership/ corporation to engage in any fishery activities in the municipality waters. 14. Fishers – people directly, or personally, and physically engaged in taking and/or culturing and processing fishery/coastal/marine resources. 15. Fishers Organization – an accredited organized group, association, federation, alliance of institution of fishers which, has at least 15 members, a set of officers. A Constitution and by-laws, and having an organization structure and programs of action. 16. Fishery and Marine Resources – include, not only, fin fishing but also mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms, marine mammals, and all other products derived from aquatic resources in any form. 17. Fishing – the making of fishery species from the wild state or habitat, with or without the use of fishing vessels. 18. Filter Net – Stationary fishing gear establish against any ensuing water current having with two circular post reinforce with opposite tie wire braces each post is having with circular ring attach to it a long cylindrical rectangular or square opening graduated mesh size net from the opening of more than 3 cm mesh size to a fine mesh net towards the tail/end of the gear and it will be operated under water in any ensuing water current that indiscriminately catches all type and kind of species of fish including tempora size and fry. 19. Fishing Gear – any instrument or device and its accessories utilized in taking fish and other fishery species. It can be either of the following: Active Fishing Gear – fishing gear characterized by active movement and/or pursuit of the target species by towing, lifting and pushing the gears surrounding, covering, dredging, pumping and scaring the target species to impoundment or encirclements, such as but not limited to trawl, purse seines, Danish seines, bag nets, push nets, cast nets, harvesting machine, beach seines, pa-aling, drift gill net and tuna long line. Passive Fishing Gear – is characterized by the absence of gear movement and/or the pursuit of the target species such as but not limited to hook and line, fish pots, traps and gill nets across the path of the fish. 20. Fishing Vessel – any vessels, boat, ship or other watercraft equipped to be used for tak-ing of fishery species or aiding or assisting one or more vessels at sea in the performance of any activity relating to fishing, including but not limited to the preservation, supply, storage, refrigeration, transportation and processing. 21. Gratuitous Permit – a permit issued to marginal and subsistence municipal fishers free of any charges. 22. Mangroves – a community of inter tidal plants including all species of trees, shrubs, vines and herbs on coast, swamps, or border of swamps. 23. Monitoring – for monitoring fisheries, this may include long-term observation of: 1.) fishing effort which can be expressed by the number of days or hours of fishing, number of fishing gears and number of fishers; 2.) Characteristics of fishery resources; and 3.) Resource yields or catch. 24. Municipal Fishers – persons who are engaged in municipal fishing and/or are fishing within the municipal waters.

25. Municipal Fishing – refers to fishing using fishing vessels of three (3) gross tons or less or fishing not requiring the use of fishing vessels within the fifteen (15) kilometers distance from the shoreline. 26. Municipal Government – refers to the Municipal Government of Tubod. 27. Municipal Waters – include not only streams, lakes, inland bodies of water and tidal waters within the municipality which are not the subject of private ownership and not included within the national parks, brackish water fishponds leased by the government, and national fishery reserves, refuge and sanctuaries but also marine waters included between two line drawn perpendicular to the general coastline from points where the boundary lines of the municipality ouch the sea at law tide and a third line parallel with the general coastline including offshore islands and 15 kilometer from such coastline. Where two municipalities are so situated or opposite shores such that there is less than thirty (30) kilometers of marine waters between them, the third line shall be a line equidistant from the opposite shores of the respective municipalities. 28. Non-Government Organization (NGO) – refers to an agency, institution, a foundation or a group of persons whose purpose is to assist peoples’ organization/association in various ways including, but not limited to organizing, education, training, research and/or resource accessing. 29. Over Fished Area – an area with the municipal waters, which cannot sustain the fisheries. It can be due to any of the following types of over fishing: (i) too much harvesting in such a way that the mean size of fish captures is sub optimal for providing effective yields from a fishery; (ii) intense fishing pressure by which the process of fishery restocking through reproduction and resettlement is impaired; (iii) shift in community structure from a fishery dominated by valuable species to one dominated by species of less economic value or utility; and (iv) when resource users faces with declining catches and lacking any other alternative, initiate wholesale resource destruction in their effort to maintain their incomes. 30. People’s Organization – a bonafide and duly accredited association of citizens and demonstrated capacity to promote the public interest and with identifiable leadership, membership and structure. It’s members belong to a sector/s in the community who voluntary band themselves together to work for their own upliftment, development and greater good. 31. Permit – a document issued to licensed holders before engaging in fishing using particular gear and/or boat engages in any fisheries activities within the municipality. 32. Persons – natural or juridical entities such as individuals, association, partnership, coopera-tives or corporation. 33. RA 8550 – Republic Act No. 8550. otherwise known as the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998. It is national law that governs the management and conservation of the fisheries resource of the country. 34. Sanctuary – a designed area within the municipal waters where fishing and other human activities are prohibited.

TITLE II. FISHERY LICENSE AND REGISTRATION

Section 1. Fishery License All individuals, cooperative, partnership, firms or corporation who are listed in the Registry of Municipal Fishers shall be issued Fishery License, upon payment of the prescribed fee: Provided, however, that the Fishery License is non-transferable: Provided, further, that the holders agree unconditionally to comply with all the laws, orders, policies, and rules and regulations governing fishing. The licensee shall also assume responsibility for any and all of his acts with his fishing operation.

Section 2. Renewal of Fishery License The Fishery License shall be renewed annually. The holder shall renew his/her license sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of the license to renew.

Section 3 Licensing Procedures Applicants for Fishery License shall submit the following documents to the Municipal Agriculturist Office and Department of Natural Resources and Environment Officer:

1. Duly accomplished Application Form; 2. Community Residence Certificate (for individual) or Certificate of Registration or Certificate of Accreditation (for organization, cooperatives, partnership, firms or corporations) 3. Barangay Clearance 4. Certification as a Registered Municipal Fishers 5. Other pertinent documents

The Office of the Municipal Agriculturist Services, in consultation with the FARMC shall recom-mend the issuance of the Fishery License to the Municipal Mayor upon payment of the necessary fee.

Section 4. Schedule of License Fee License to export, occupy, produce, culture, capture, or gather fish of any species and other fisheries products in the municipal waters shall be granted by the Municipal Mayor upon payment of corresponding fees at the rate not exceeding those fixed hereunder: Provided, however, that Registered Fishers from other municipalities who will be permitted to use the municipal waters of this municipality shall pay double of the rate fixed hereunder:

1) For Fishpond Culture(individual) - P550.00/hectare/annum2) For construction of Seaweed Dryer - P25.00/square meter/annum3) For Partnerships and Corporations - P550.00/hectare/annum

4) For using motorized boat a. below 1 gross ton - P220.00/annum b. from 1.1 to 2 gross ton - P330.00/annum c. from 2.1 to 3 gross ton - P550.00/annum

5) For using non-motorized banca - P 55.00/annum

6) For using and/or engaging in the following: Pasol - P27.50/person/annum Pang lambay - P220.00/gear of 100 m/yr. Pangal - P110.00/pangal/annum Timing - P55.00/annum Pucot Palunod - P165.00/gear of 100m/yr Yab-yab - P247.50/gear of 100m/yr Bahan-bahan Pasol - P220.00/unit Newlook - P2,200.00/annum Subid Pangnukos - P27.50/unit Kitang - P55.00/annum Seaweed Farming - P38.50/100 meters/annum Pukot Pagkuha sa Semilya - P110.00/pukot/annum Pamukot sa Aquarium Fish - P110.00/ pukot/annum Bubo-Pangisda/Lambay - P100.00/bubo/annum Newlook w/ light during nighttime - P2,200.00/annum Pukot Lamba-lamba - P110.00/annum Palangre - P220.00/annum

7) For Construction and Operation of Fish Corrals – P1,100.00

8) For Construction and Operation of - P77.00 per square meter Oyster & Other Culture Beds

9) For Construction of Fish per square meter Cage - P77.00

Section 5. Auxiliary Invoice

All fish and fisheries products, except those caught in violation of the provision of this ordinance or are declared as health hazards by concerned institutions, must have an auxiliary invoice to be issued by the Municipal Agriculturist of the Office of the Municipal Agricultural Office prior to their transport from the point of origin to their point of destination in the Philippines and/or export purpose payment of the prescribed fee.

Fish : P3.00 per 10 kilos or fraction thereof Dried Seaweeds : P3.00 per 10 kilos or fraction thereof Fresh Seaweeds : P1.50 per 10 kilos or fraction thereof Shrimp : P3.00 per 10 kilos or fraction thereof Crabs (alimango) : P3.00 per 10 kilos or fraction thereof Crabs (lambay) : P2.00 per 10 kilos or fraction thereof Shells : P2.00 per 10 kilos or fraction thereof Dried Uyap : P3.00 per 10 kilos or fraction thereof Salted Uyap : P3.00 per 10 kilos or fraction thereof Fresh Uyap : P2.00 per 10 kilos or fraction thereof

Section 6. Time and Manner of Payment.

a) The license fees levied under Section 23B.06 shall be paid quarterly upon application within the first twenty (20) days of January and of every subsequent calendar quarter. The initial payment corresponding to the current quarter shall be made application of the license. b) The license fee for the privilege to take fish from the municipal waters with nets, traps or other fishing gears and the operation of fishing vessels shall be paid upon application for a license and within the first twenty (20) days of January of every year for the subsequent renewal thereof.

Section 7 Administrative Provisions. – Any person, who is not a grantee of a license or privilege to fish under any of the provisions of this Article, is hereby allowed to fish for domestic use in any municipal water, for as long as no communal fishery therein has been established. Such fishing shall not take place within two hundred (200) meters from a fish corral licensed by the Municipality, and that such fish caught under the privilege shall not be sold.

Section 8. Applicability Clause. - All existing laws, rules and regulations governing fishing in municipal waters are hereby adopted as part of this Article.

CHAPTER XIV Rentals of Personal and Real Properties

Owned by the Municipality(To be based considering municipal assets and full cost pricing)

TITLE 1. PUBLIC UTILITY

Section 1. Imposition. The following rates of rental fees for the use of real and personal proper-ties of this municipality shall be collected:

EQUIPMENT RENTALS:

Concrete Mixer 500.00/day Pay Loader 4,500.00/day Road Grader 5,448.40/day Dump truck(6 wheelers) 5,740.00/day

TUBOD CULTURAL CENTER RENTALS:

With Sound system (night time) (if the activity is income generating) 5,000.00/night With sound system (night time) (not income generating) 2,500.00/night Without sound system (night time) 1,500.00/night With Sound system (day time) 1,000.00/day Without Sound system(day time) 500.00/day Chairs 5.00/day Tables 25.00/day

BANANA TRADING CENTER: BOOTH 720.00/MO./BOOTH

COMFORT ROOMS Urinate 2.00/use Discharge 5.00/use Bath 20.00/use

AECI TRAINING CENTER:a. Dormitory Rooms (Double Deck with Electric Fan) Government Private Men’s Quarter 80.00/hd/night 100.00/hd/night Ladies Quarter 80.00/hd/night 85.00/hd/nightb. Air-Conditioned Rooms Bed Room 300.00/night 350.00/night Additional Bed 100.00/night 150.00/night

C. Function Hall 30 persons & below 300.00/day 350.00/day 31-60 persons 500.00/day 600.00/day

D. Table and Chairs

Tables free 20.00/day/tbl Chairs free 10.00/day/chr

e. LCD Projector free 500.00/day with deposit 500.00

Other Properties that may be acquired after the promulgation of this ordinance As may be decided by the Sangguniang Bayan

Section 2. Time of Payment. The fees imposed herein shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer or his duly authorized representative, before the use or occupancy of the property.

TITLE II. Service Charge for Garbage Collection

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There shall be collected from every owner or operator of a business establishment an annual garbage fee in accordance with the following schedule:

Section2 - Rate of Charges - Except as otherwise provided herein, garbage service charges shall be collected quarterly from every person (natural or juridical) engaged in business, occupation or calling or any undertaking in the municipality in accordance with the following:

Rate Per QuarterSchedule A - Aircraft and Watercraft Companies

Main Office P1,000.00 For every branch office P500.00

Schedule B - Amusement Places

1. Amusement centers and establishments with coin-operated machines, appliances, amusement rides and shooting galleries, side show booths and other similar establishments with contrivances for the amusement of customers,

per contrivance P27.502. Billiard and/or pool halls, per table P11.003. Bowling establishments: a) Automatic, per lane P55.00 b) Non-automatic, per lane P33.00 4. Casinos P2,200.005. Circuses, carnivals and the like P550.006. Cockpits P1,100.007. Golf links and/or ranges P550.008. Gymnasiums P110.009. Membership clubs, associations or organizations: a) Serving food, drinks and lodging facilities P500.00 b) Serving foods and drinks without lodging facilities P330.0010. Night/Day clubs, discos, beer gardens and other similar establishments P550.0011. Race tracks, jai-alai fronton, coliseum or similar establishments P550.00 For every off-track and/or off-fronton betting centers P110.0012. Resorts or other similar establishments P550.0013. Sauna bath and massage clinics, per cubicle P55.0014. Skating rinks P110.0015. Stadua, sports complexes P550.0016. Theaters or cinema houses, per theater P550.0017. Pelota courts, tennis courts and other similar nature P55.0018. Residential/Private (every other day collecting of garbage) P55.00

Schedule C - Electric and Power Companies1. Main office and/or each power plant P2,200.002. Every branch office thereof P55.00

Schedule D - Financial Institutions1. Banks a. Commercial (main office) 500.00 Every branch thereof P165.00 b. Savings banks (main office) P220.00 every branch thereof P55.00 c. Rural Banks P110.00

2. Savings and Loan Associations, Insurance Companies, Pawnshops: Main Office P220.00 Every branch thereof P55.00

3. Financial/and/or lending investors establishments, money shops: a. Main Office P220.00 Every branch thereof P55.00

b. Authorized dealer in Foreign currencies and stock brokers P110.00

Schedule E - Gasoline Services/Filling Stations:1. Having an area of 1,500 sq. m. or more P165.002. Having an area of more than 1,000 but less than 1,500 sq. meters P165.003. Having an area of 1,000 sq. m. or less P137.504. Curb pumps and filling stations P110.00

Schedule F - Private Hospitals AND Medical Clinics WITH Bed Capacity FOR: 1. more than 500 persons P1,100.00 2. 301 to 500 persons P550.00 3. 151 to 300 persons P440.00 4. 101 to 150 persons P330.00 5. 16 to 100 persons P220.00 6. or less P165.00 Animal Hospitals and others P275.00

Schedule G - Hotels, motels, apartel, pension inns, drive inns, boarding houses, dormitories, dwelling and other spaces for lease or rent: Per Room P11.00

Schedule H - Institutions of Learning:

1. Private universities, colleges, schools and educational or vocational institutions based on the total semestral enrollment as follows:

a. 50,000 students or more P1,100.00 b. 30,000 or more but less than 50,000 students P880.00 c. 20,000 or more but less than 30,000 students P660.00 d. 10,000 or more but less than 20,000 students P440.00 e. 5,000 or more but less than 10,000 students P220.00 f. 1,000 or more but less than 5,000 students P165.00 g. below 1,000 students P110.00

Schedule I - Liquefied Petroleum:

Gas Dealer 1. Marketer P165.00 2. Dealer P110.00

Schedule J - Market Stallholders: Public Market/Private Markets P55.00 Per stall

Schedule K - Media Facilities: 1. Newspaper, books, or magazine publications P165.00 2. Radio Stations P550.00 3. T.V. Stations P550.00

Schedule L - Telegram, teletype, cable and wireless communication companies, etc. 1. Main Office P500.00 2. Every branch/Station thereof P220.00

Schedule M - Telephone Companies: 1. Main Office P2,200.00 2. Every branch/Station thereof P1,100.00

Schedule N - Terminal garage for bus, taxi and other public utility 1. With an area of 1,000 sq. m. or more P550.00 2. With an area of 700 sq. m. or more but less than 1,000 sq. m. P440.00 3. With an area of 500 sq. m. or more but less than 700 sq. m. P330.00 4. With an area of 300 sq. m. or more but less than 500 sq. m. P220.00 5. With an area of less than 300 sq. m. P110.00

Schedule O - Peddlers, ambulant vendors, except delivery van or truck P11.00

Schedule P - Administration offices, display offices And/or offices of professionals: P110.00

Schedule Q - Film shooting, per day: P 5.50

Schedule R - Private warehouse or bodega: P100.00

Schedule S - All other business and other service Agencies not specifically mentioned above:

1. Manufacturers, producers and processors: Factory with an aggregate area of: 1,000 sq. m. or more P2,200.00 500 sq. m but less than 1,000 sq. m. P1,650.00 200 sq. m. but less than 500 sq. m. P1,100.00 100 sq. m. or more but less than 200 sq. m. P880.00 50 sq. m. or more but less than 100 sq. m. P660.00 25 sq. m. or more but less than 50 sq. m P440.00 Less than 25 sq. m. P220.00

2. Exporters/Importers 3. Brewers, Distillers, Compounders and public Eating Places with an aggregate area of: 1,000 sq. m. or more P2,200.00 500 sq. m.or more but less than1,000 sq. m. P1,650.00 200 sq. m. or more but less than 500 sq. m. P1,100.00 100 sq. m. or more but less than 200 sq. m. P880.00 50 sq. m. or more but less than 100 sq. m. P660.00 25 sq. m. or more but less than 50 sq. m. P440.00 Less than 25 sq. m. P220.00 Carinderia P110.00 4. Owners or Operations of Business Establishment Rendering Services.A. Business Offices of General Contractors (Building Specially Engineering); Manpower Service/employment agencies, private detective agencies; advertising agencies with an aggregate area of:

1,000 sq. m. or more P1,100.00 500 sq. m. or more but less than 1,000 sq. m. P880.00 200 sq. m. or more but less than 500 sq. m. P660.00



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100 sq. m. or more but less than 200 sq. m. P440.00 100 sq. m. or more but less than 200 sq. m. P220.00 50 sq. m. or more but less than 100 sq. m. P110.00 B. Other contractors/business establishments in rendering services, printers and publishers with an aggregate of: 1,000 sq. m. or more P1,650.00 500 sq. m. or more but less than 1,000 sq. m. P1,1 00.00 200 sq. m. or more but less than 500 sq. m. P880.00 100 sq. m. or more but less than 200 sq. m. P660.00 50 sq. m. or more but less than 100 sq. m. P440.00 25 sq. m. or more but less than 50 sq. m. P220.00 Less than 25 sq. m. P110.00

5. Independent Wholesalers, Dealers, Distributors, Repackers and Retailers with an aggregate area of: 1,000 sq. m. or more P1,165.00 500 sq. m. or more but less than 1,000 sq. m. P1,100.00 200 sq. m. or more but less than 500 sq. m. P880.00 100 sq. m. or more but less than 200 sq. m. P660.00 50 sq. m. or more but less than 100 sq. m. P440.00 25 sq. m. or more but less than 50 sq. m. P220.00 Less than 25 sq. m. P110.00

TITLE III. Charges for Parking

Section 1. Imposition of Fee. There shall be collected fees for the use of municipal owned parking area or designated streets for pay parking in accordance with the following schedule:

a. Day Parking Rates

Vehicle Type Annual DailyTricycle P P Private Cars and Service Vehicles Passenger Jeepneys Cargo Trucks/Delivery Vans Passenger Bus

b. Overnight Parking Rates All types of vehicles Annual – P _________ Daily – _________

c. Towing Fee of P300.00 and impounding fee of P100.00/day shall be collected from owners of vehicles who shall violate this Article.

(ALTERNATIVE RATE STRUCTURE:)

For the first ______ hours

a) Passenger buses or cargo trucks P

b) Mini buses or jeepneys

c) Cars

d) Tricycles

e) Other vehicles

For each succeeding hour or a fraction thereof :

a) Passenger buses or cargo trucks P

b) Mini buses or jeepneys

c) Cars

d) Tricycles

e) Other vehicles

Overnight Parking RatesAll types of vehicles Annual Daily P

Towing Fee of P300.00 and impounding fee of P100.00/day shall be collected from owners of vehicles who shall violate this Article.)

Each barangay shall assist the municipal government in ensuring compliance by car-owning residents with the night-parking regulation and shall correspondingly receive a thirty percent (30%) share of the fees collected from its area of jurisdiction.

Section 5D.02.Time of Payment. The fees herein imposed shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer or to his duly delegated representative upon parking thereat.

TITLE IV - STALLED VEHICLES, TOWING, IMPOUNDING

Section 1 - Stalled Vehicle Charges - There shall be collected from every owner or operator of any installed motor vehicle in any street within the jurisdiction of the Municipality, the following charges:

a) Stalled Vehicles charges P 200.00 For towing charges: 1. Vehicles with gross capacity weight of 4,000 kilograms or less for the first 3 km, or fraction thereof P200.00

For every additional kilometer or fraction thereof P20.00 2. Vehicles with gross capacity weight or more than 4,000 kilograms for the first 3 kilometers or fraction thereof P500.00

For additional kilometers or fraction thereof P50.00 c) Impounding charge - For each day or fraction thereof that the value vehicle remains impounded P50.00

Section 2 - Time of payment – The charges for stalled vehicles and towing thereof, shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer, or his duly authorized deputies before the vehicle is released.

Section 3 - Surcharge - Failure to pay the charges for stalled vehicle and/or towing thereof, within the period prescribed in the preceding Section shall subject the owner/operator of the vehicle to a daily surcharge of twenty percent (20%) of the charges imposed for the first two month; thirty percent (30%) for the third and fourth months, and forty percent (40%) for the fifth and six months, but not to exceed ten thousand (P10,000.00) pesos. Provided, that after six (6) months the charges and surcharge shall not have been paid by the operator or owner of the vehicle, the same shall be sold at public auction, the proceeds of which shall be applied to the accumulated charges and the exceeds, if any, shall be returned to the operator or owner.

TITLE V. Municipal Hospital Service Fees Section 1. Imposition of Municipal Hospital Service Fees. The following schedule of fees is hereby imposed for services of facilities rendered by the Municipal Hospital: Amount of Fee

X-RAY AND ULTRASOUND X-ray Obstetrical Procedures 450.00 X-ray Obstetrical Procedures Pelvimetry 400.00 X-ray Skeletal System Left/Right Hip Joint AP 250.00 X-ray Skeletal System Clavicle 200.00 X-ray Skeletal System Left/Right Elbow/hand/ 400.00 Leg/wrist/ankle AP/L X-ray Skeletal System Left/Right calcaneus(OS 200.00 X-ray Skeletal System Left/Right calcaneus(OS 400.00 X-ray Skeletal System Left/Right femur/foot/forearm 400.00 Humerus/knee AP/L X-ray Skeletal System Left/Right shoulder AP 400.00 X-ray Skeletal System Pelvis 400.00 X-ray Skeletal System Scapula 400.00 X-ray Skeletal System Sternum 400.00 X-ray Thoraco-Lumbar AP 200.00 X-ray Thoraco-Lumbar AP/L 400.00 X-ray Urinary System Cysto 600.00 X-ray Urinary System Cystography 550.00 X-ray Urinary System Intravenous 1,400.00

X-ray Urinary System Retograde 850.00 X-ray Urinary System Urethrography 550.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Thoraco-lumbar 400.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Thoraco-Lumbar 200.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Cervical AP 200.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Cervical AP/L 400.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Cervico-Thoracic 400.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Cervico-Thoracic 200.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Lumbar Spines AP 200.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Lumbar Spines AP/L 400.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Lumbo-Sacral AP 200.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Lumbo-Sacral AP/L 400.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Sacrum or Coccyx 400.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Sacrum or Coccyx 200.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Scoliotic Series 600.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Thoracic Cage AP 200.00 X-ray Vertebral Column Thoracic Cage AP/L 400.00 Ultrasound Abdomen Lower 600.00 Ultrasound Abdomen Upper 800.00 Ultrasound Abdomen whole 1,000.00 Ultrasound Additional Organ 100.00 Ultrasound Any Single Organ 500.00 Ultrasound Hepatobillary Tree 500.00 Ultrasound Kidneys 500.00 Ultrasound KUB 700.00 Ultrasound KUB with Prostate 800.00 Ultrasound Liver 500.00 Ultrasound O.B. (non-pregnant) 750.00 Ultrasound O.B. (pregnant) 500.00 Ultrasound Pelvis 500.00 X-ray Abdomen Flat Plate 200.00 X-ray Abdomen Flat Plate & Upright 400.00 X-ray Abdomen KUB 200.00 X-ray Abdomen Lateral Decubitus 200.00 X-ray Abdomen Lateral View 200.00 X-ray Abdomen Upright 200.00 X-ray Billary System Endoscopic 1,820.00 X-ray Billary System IV Cholangiography 500.00 X-ray Billary System Operative 500.00 X-ray Billary System Oral 500.00 X-ray Billary System Percutaneous 1,800.00 X-ray Billary System T. Tube 500.00 X-ray Chest AP + Lateral 400.00 X-ray Chest AP + Lateral (Pedia) 400.00 X-ray Chest AP Lordotic View 200.00 X-ray Chest AP view 200.00 X-ray Chest Bucky Tech. 350.00 X-ray Chest Cardiac series 350.00 X-ray Chest lateral view 200.00 X-ray Chest PA – Lateral view 400.00 X-ray Chest PA View 200.00 X-ray Dental 60.00 X-ray Digestive Tract System Barium 420.00 X-ray Digestive Tract System Barium Enema 1,600.00 X-ray Digestive Tract System Colonogram 500.00 X-ray Digestive Tract System GI Series 650.00 X-ray Digestive Tract System Hypotonic 950.00 X-ray Digestive Tract System Oral Chole – GI 750.00 X-ray Digestive Tract System Small 1,200.00 X-ray Frog Leg 200.00 X-ray Head Facial Bone (AP/L) 400.00 X-ray Head Mastoid (3 Views) 600.00 X-ray Head Maxilla-Mandible (2 views) 400.00 X-ray Head Nasal Bone (AP/L) 400.00 X-ray Head Optic Foramen Right & Left 280.00 X-ray Head Orbit (2 views) 250.00 X-ray Head Paranasal Sinuses (3 views) 600.00 X-ray Head Skull (AP/Lateral) 400.00 X-ray Head Skull Series 500.00 X-ray Head Temporo-Mandibular Joint (4 views) 800.00 X-ray Head Zygoma 250.00 X-ray Neck Foreign Body (2 views) 400.00 X-ray Neck Soft Tissues (2 views) 250.00

HEMATOLOGY/SEROLOGY CBC Automated 150.00 CBC Automated w/ platelet 230.00 Platelet Only 80.00 Hemoglobin 60.00 Hematocrit 60.00 Blood Typing (ABO only) 75.00 Blood Typing including RH Typing 150.00 Cross-matching including retyping 300.00 Cross-matching 150.00 Clotting time/bleeding time 60.00 WBC/Diff Count 50.00

CLINICAL MICROSCOPY Routine Urinalysis 60.00 Urine Sugar 25.00 Fecalysis/Stool Exam 60.00 Pregnancy Test 150.00 Semen Analysis 200.00

MICROBIOLOGY Gram Stain 100.00

BLOOD CHEMISTRY Creatinine 200.00 BUN 200.00 Cholesterol Only 200.00 Triglycerides Only 200.00 Lipid Profile (LDL, HDL, Chole, Trigly) 600.00 package Total Protein Only 200.00 Total Billirubin 200.00 SGOT 250.00 SGPT 250.00 Glucose 150.00 Uric Acid 150.00

BLOOD BANK Blood Screening (HIV/Hepa – B & C/VRDL/ 1,200.00 package Hemo/Blood Type & RH/Malaria)

IMMUNOLOGY HIV 250.00 Thyphidot (Thyphoid Rapid Test) 800.00 Dengue Ig/IgM Test (Immulite – reagent 500.00 Tie-up Machine) Malaria 120.00 Hepa B 200.00 Hepa C 220.00 Syphilis (VRDL) 250.00

URINARY SYSTEM Intravenous Pyelography (IVP) 1,400.00 Retograde Pyelography (RPG) 850.00 Cystography 550.00 Urethrography 550.00 Cysto-urethrography 600.00

OBSTETRICAL PROCEDURES Pelvimery 400.00 ECG 250.00 ER – OPD :

DENTAL PROCEDURES Tooth extraction/tooth without anesthesia Including single Anesthesia 150.00 With additional anesthesia 30.00/anesthesia Oral prophylaxis 250.00 Cavity filling/tooth: Permanent (Light – Cure) 300.00 Permanent (amalgam) 200.00 Permanent (compo T.) 100.00 Temporary 50.00 Circumcision 500.00

Consultation 50.00 Dressing – minor 50.00 Medium 100.00 Major 200.00 Pre-natal 50.00 Pre-natal with Internal Exam 100.00

ACCOMODATION (Secondary Hospital) Room and Board 300.00/day Operating Room 1. RVU 30 and below 670.00 2. RVU 31 to 80 1,140.00 3. RVU 81 up to 200 2,160.00 (Primary Hospital) Room and Board 200.00/day Operating Room RVU 30 and Below 385.00

OTHERS: Newborn Screening (PH) 1,000.00

Certification: Medical Certificate 50.00 Medico-legal 150.00 Birth Certificate 50.00 Death Certificate 50.00

Professional Fee General Practitioner 150.00/day not exceeding 900.00 Specialist 250.00/day not exceeding 1,500.00 Surgeon 40.00/RVU not exceeding 6,000.00 Anesthesiologist 30% Surgeon’s fee not exceeding 5,000.00

OTHER HOSPITAL PROCEDURES

Use of Nebulizer 25.00/session Perelite 50.00/session Use of Respirator 750.00/day Steam Inhalation 30.00/session Bili-light 35.00/hour Continuous 500.00/day Interrupted 400.00/day Use of Electro-Cautery 300.00/use Use of SS Enema 100.00/use Use of Incubator 500.00/day Use of Oxygen .80 per liter Ambulance Charges: a. Cost of Fuel, round trip Prevailing cost of fuel b. Maintenance cost 10.00/km. round trip Section 2. Time and Manner of Payment. The fees herein shall be paid upon application or after the extension of service.

Section 3. Exemptions. Residents who are certified by the assigned Municipal Officer as indigent and upon approval by the Municipal Mayor may be exempted from the payment of any or all fees in this schedule. An indigent is one who belongs to a family whose family income does not exceed P50,000.00 per year of the poverty line established by NEDA, whichever is higher.

TITLE VI. Cemetery Charges

Section 1 - Imposition of Charge - There is hereby imposed a charge of P50.00 per cadaver to be buried in Municipal Cemeteries and an additional P300.00 per burial lot except paupers who shall be buried free of charge, the Municipal Health Office shall be responsible for the efficient operation of the Municipal Cemetery. The following charges shall be collected from the kin of dead persons who shall bury their relatives in the Municipal-owned cemeteries: 1. Lot Used for 5 years (double) -P20,000.00 for residents -P25,000.00 for non-Residents a. Lot Care – after five years of burial -P100.00/year b. Rental after five years -P100.00/year

2. For each niche for five years -P5,000.00 3. Renewal after five years of burial -P100.00/month 4. Use of Chapel -P200.00 5. Fees on Memorial Park/Cemetery plan owners/operators of Memorial Park a. Preliminary processing for the first one hectares area -P550.00 b. Business Parks, private -P1,375.00 c. Cemeteries/Memorial Park -P3,300.00

6. Increase in Fees – subject to 50% every three years 7. Fees on lessor of real estate on privately-owned cemetery and memorial parks less than 2 hectares – P550.00 2 hectares to 5 hectares - P1,100.00

Section 2. Time of Payment. The fee shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer upon ap-plication for a burial permit prior to the construction thereon of any structure whether permanent or temporary, or to the interment of the deceased. Thereafter, the fee shall be paid within twenty (20) days before the expiration of the lease period. The fee shall not be collected in a pauper’s burial, upon recommendation of the Municipal Mayor.

Section 3. Administrative Provisions. (a) As used in this Article, Municipal Cemetery shall refer to the lot owned by this municipality located at Bulod, Tubod, Lanao del Norte. (b) A standard cemetery lot shall be three (3) meters long and one (1) meter wide or three (3) square meters. (c) Except in cases allowed under existing laws and regulations, no person may be buried or interred, permanently or temporarily, other than in properly designated cemeteries or burial grounds. (d) In addition to the burial permit, a certificate of death issued by the attending physician or Municipal Health Officer; or, if no medical officer is available, by the Municipal Mayor, Municipal Administrator, or any member of the Sangguniang Bayan shall be required. (e) Any construction of whatever kind or nature in the public cemetery whether for temporary or perpetual use, shall only be allowed after the approval of a permit issued by the Municipal Mayor, upon recommendation of the Municipal Health Officer. (f) In case a lessee intends to renew the lease after its termination, he must inform the Municipal Treasurer within thirty (30) days before the expiry date of the lease, and shall pay the corresponding fees therefor. (g) It shall be the duty of the Municipal Treasurer to prepare and submit to the Municipal Mayor a list of the leases that are to expire five (5) days prior to the expiration date. The Municipal Treasurer shall send a reminder to the lessee of the expiration of his lease, two (2) weeks prior to the expiration date of the lease. (h) The Municipal Treasurer shall keep a register in account of the cemetery, together with such additional information as may be required by the Sangguniang Bayan.

TITLE VII. Rental Fee on Mineral Lands

Section 1. Definitions of terms. (a) Minerals mean all naturally occurring inorganic substances in solid, liquid, or any inter-mediate state including coal. Soil which supports organic life, sand and gravel, guano, petroleum, geothermal energy and natural gas are included in this term but are governed by special laws. (b) Mineral Lands are those lands in which minerals exist in sufficient quantity and grade to justify the necessary expenditures in extracting and utilizing such minerals.

Section 2. Collection of Fee. There shall be collected an annual rental fee from the lessee of mineral lands in this city for the exploration, development and exploitation and disposition of minerals form said lands covered by lease in accordance with the following rates: (a) On coal-bearing public lands Five pesos (P 5.00) per hectare or fraction thereof for each and every year for the first ten (10) years; and Ten pesos (P 10.00) per hectare or fraction thereof for each and every year thereafter during the lease period.

(b) On public lands bearing quarry resources Fifty pesos (P50.00) per hectare or fraction thereof for each and every year during the lease period

(c) On all other mineral lands containing metallic or non-metallic minerals under Existing mining laws and decrees. Ten pesos (P10.00 per hectare, or a fraction thereof for each and every year during the lease period. Section 3. Time of Payment. The rental fee shall be paid in advance to the Municipal Treasurer or his duly authorized representative on the date of the granting of the lease and on the same date every year thereafter during the life of the lease.



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TITLE VIII. Occupation Fee for Mining Claims

Section 1. Definition. When used in this Article Occupation Fee is a fee payable by any locator or occupant of any mining claim. Section 2. Collection of Fee. There shall be collected an annual occupation fee on locator, holder or occupant of mining claim in the amount of _________ Pesos (P ________) per hectare or fractional part thereof, until the lease covering the mining claim shall have been granted. Section 3. Time of Payment. The fee shall be payable to the Municipal Treasurer on the date of registration of the mining claim and on the same date every year thereafter, until the lease covering the mining claim shall have been granted. Section 4. Administrative Provisions. The Municipal Treasurer shall keep a list of all registered mining claims indicating therein the name of locators, area in hectares and date of registration:

TITLE IX. Charges for Use of Waterworks System

Section 1. Imposition of Charges. The fees and charges provided herein shall be collected for the water service rendered by _____________________ of this municipality’s waterworks system. a. Application fee for connection with waterworks system P 25.00 b. Guarantee deposit for every application 100.00 c. Installation for the first lineal feet of pipe 1. Earth and gravel excavation 5.00 2. Asphalted road 10.00 3. Cemented road 20.00 For every additional pipe of _____ lineal feet long or fraction thereof will be charged 25.00

d. For metered service 1. Minimum charge for not more than ten (10) cu.m. per month a. Residential Service 15.00 b. Commercial Service 30.00 c. Industrial Service 30.00 2. For every cubic meter in excess of ten (10) cu.m. per month: a. Residential Service P0.75/cu.m. b. Commercial Service P1.50/cu.m. c. Industrial Service P1.50/cu.m.

e. For unmetered service 1. Flat rate consisting of one (1) faucet only: a. Residential Service P20.00/month b. Commercial Service P150.00/mo. c. Industrial Service P150.00/mo. 2. For each additional faucet fixture per month: a. Residential Service P20.00 b. Commercial Service P30.00 c. Industrial Service P30.00

f. Re-installation fee 25.00 g. Tapping fees: 1. For one-half inch (1/2”) diameter 20.00 2. For three-fourth inch (3/4”) diameter 25.00 3. For one inch (1”) diameter 30.00 Section 2. Time of Payment. The water rental is due and payable to the Office of the Municipal Treasurer within the first ______ ( ) days of the following month.

Section 3. Administrative Provisions. (a) A written application/contract filed with the Office of _______________ shall be required for any of the aforementioned services. (b) A cash deposit of _______________ Pesos (P________) shall be required of every customer/applicant before the initial service is rendered. It shall answer for any unpaid due and demandable water charges rendered in accordance with the foregoing rates which shall automati-cally be charged off against the cash deposit after failure to pay the monthly fee within _____ ( ) days of the succeeding month. In cases where the cash deposit shall no longer be sufficient to cover water fees and surcharges, the water connection shall be disconnected after failure by the customer to settle the difference after a period of ______ ( ) days from receipt of notice of disconnection. The cash deposit shall be refunded by the System if the customer desires to withdraw the service of the System and all his water bills shall have been fully paid. (c) For billing purposes, a water meter shall be read one (1) month after its connection and every month thereafter. The meter shall be sealed and the seal shall be broken only when the meter is to be inspected, tested, or adjusted by the System. It shall be tested at any reasonable time by the duly authorized representative/inspector of the System or upon the request of the customer and to be witnessed by him if he so desires. If the testing of the meter is upon the request of the customer and the test discloses that the water meter is defective, corresponding adjustments shall be made and no fee shall be charged to the customer. If no defect is found in the meter, then the customer shall pay to the System _________ Pesos (P ) for every five-eighth (5/8”) and three-fourth inch (3/4”) of water meter and ________ Pesos (P ) for every water meter bigger than the above. (d) For re-opening of service upon request of the customer after it has been closed for delin-quency, ________ Pesos (P ) shall be charged if the service is closed at the metering point. If it is closed at the water main or main pipe, the cost of street repair shall be paid by the customer. (e) Service connection for domestic or residential use shall not use pipes bigger than on-half inch (1/2”) in diameter. (f) Service connection using pipes bigger than one-half (1/2”) in diameter may be allowed for commercial and/or industrial use only, provided that the applicant thereof shall satisfy in his application the need of a bigger size which shall in all cases be subject to the approval of the ___________________________________. (e) Every multi-door apartment shall have separate water service connection and separate water meter for every occupant or lessee therein.

TITLE X. Slaughter and Corral Fees

Section 1. Imposition of Fees a. Permit Fee of Slaughter. Before any animal is slaughtered for public consumption, a permit therefore shall be secured from the Meat Inspector concerned or his duly authorized representative who will determine whether the animal or fowl is fit for human consumption, (preferable the municipal veterinary, or meat inspector, if any upon payment of the corresponding fee, as follows: Per Head Large cattle P= 50.00 Hogs 35.00 Goats 20.00 Sheeps 20.00 Others 20.00

b. Slaughter Fee. The fee shall cover the cost of the services in the slaughter of animals in accordance with the following rates per head.

For public consumption: Per Head Large cattle P= 50.00 Hogs 25.00 Goats 20.00 Sheeps 20.00 Others 20.00

For personal/home consumption: Per Head Large cattle P= 50.00 Hogs 25.00 Others 20.00

c. Corral Fee. There shall be collected the following fee for the custody or safekeeping of the animals in the municipal corral. Per head, per day, or fraction thereof:

Large cattle P= 10.00/h/day Hogs 5.00/h/day Others 1.00/h/day

d. Post-mortem inspection fee: Dressed meat and poultry P= .75/kilo

Section 2. Prohibition. Permit to slaughter shall not be granted nor the corresponding fee collected on animals condemned by the Municipal Health Officer or his duly authorized representa-tive.

Section 3. Time of Payment a. Permit Fee. The fee shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer upon application for a permit to slaughter with the Municipal Health Officer of his duly authorized representative. b. Slaughter and post-mortem inspection fee. These fees shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer or his duly authorized representative before the slaughter animal is removed from the public slaughterhouse or after the post-mortem inspection, as the case may be. c. Corral fee. The fee shall be paid to the Municipal Treasurer before the animal is kept in the

municipal corral or any place designated as such. If the animal is kept in the corral beyond the period paid for, the fees due on the unpaid shall first be paid before the same animal is released from the corral.

Section 4. Administrative Provision a) The slaughter, of any kind of animal indeed for sale, shall be done only in the municipal slaughterhouse designated as such by the Sangguniang Bayan. The slaughter of animals intended for home consumption may be done elsewhere, except large cattle which shall be slaughtered only in the public not be sold offered for sale. b) Before issuing the permit for the slaughter of the large cattle inside the slaughterhouse, the Officer-In-Charge of the slaughterhouse shall be required for branded-cattle, the production of the certificate of ownership if the owner is the applicant, or the original certificate of ownership and certificate of transfer showing title in the name of the original owner. If the applicant is not the original owner and there is no certificate to transfer made in his favor, one such certificate shall be issued and the corresponding fee be collected therefore. For unbranded cattle that have not yet reached the age of branding, the Officer on charge of the slaughterhouse shall require such evidence as will be satisfactory to him regarding the ownership of the animals for which permit to slaughter has been requested. For unbranded cattle of the required age, the necessary certificate of ownership and/or transfer shall first be secured, and the corresponding fees collected therefore before the slaughter permit is granted. c) Before any animal is slaughtered for public consumption, a permit therefore shall be secured from the Municipal Health Office or his duly authorized representative, preferably, the municipal veterinarian or the meat inspector, if any. The permit shall bear the date and month of issue and the stamp of the Municipal Health Officer, as well as the page of the book in which said permit is entered and wherein the name if the permit and the kind and sex of the animal to be slaughtered appear. d) The permit to slaughter as herein required shall be kept by the owner to be posted in a conspicuous place in his/her stall at all times.

Section 5. Penalty. Any violation of the provisions of this article shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Thousand (P= 1,000.00) Pesos but not more than Two Thousand Five Hundred (P= 2,500.00) Pesos or imprisonment of not less than one (1) month but not more than six (6) months, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the Court.

TITLE XI. Toll Fees or Charges

Section 1. Imposition of Fee or Charges. There shall be collected a fee or charge for the use of the following utilities owned and operated by this municipality..

Type of Infrastructure Amount (pier, ferry, bridge, etc...) a) P b) c)

Section 2. Exemptions. No such tolls or fees or charges shall be collected from officers and enlisted men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and members of the Philippine National Police on mission, ambulances, post office personnel delivering mail, physically handicapped, and disabled citizens who are sixty-five (65) years or older.

Section 3. Time of Payment. Fees and charges for the use of the above mentioned facilities shall be made every time such facilities are utilized.

Section 4. Administrative Provision. When public safety and welfare so requires, the Sang-guniang Bayan may discontinue the collection of tolls and thereafter said facility shall be free and open for public use.

CHAPTER XVADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

TITLE 1. Collection of Taxes, Charges and Fees

Section 1. Authority to Collect – Unless otherwise provided, the Municipal Treasurer or his duly authorized deputies shall be responsible for the assessment collection and administration of the taxes, fees and charges prescribed under this code. The Local Treasurer or his duly authorized deputies are hereby authorized to accept payments of fees, charges and taxes base on previous payment subject to the adjustment if found deficient by the officials concerned.

Section 2. Annual and Quarterly Payment – Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Code, all taxes, charges and fees shall accrue on the first day of January of each year, and are with the first twenty (20) days of January of each subsequent quarter as the case may be. The Municipal Mayor, upon recommendation of the Municipal Treasurer, for justifiably reason or cause, such as flood, fire typhoon and other natural calamities extend for and additional period of not exceeding thirty (30) days the time for payment of a tax, charge of fee without penalty.

Section 3. Surcharge and interests – Except as otherwise specifically provided in this code, non-payment of tax, charge or fee within the time required shall subject the taxpayer to a surcharge of twenty-five (25%) percent of the amount of tax, charge or fee due, plus an interest of two (2%) percent per month of the unpaid taxes, fees or charges including surcharges, until such amount is fully paid but in no case shall the total interest on the unpaid amount or portion thereof exceed thirty six (36) months. For the purpose of this Section the Term “amount of tax, or fee due” shall refer to the total unpaid tax, charge or fee for the whole year.

Section 4. Keeping of books of accounts – Any person doing business in the Municipality shall keep books of accounts wherein all transactions and results of operations are shown and from which all taxes, charges and fees due the Municipality may readily and accurately be determine any time of the year; Provided, however, that any such person who already keeps books of accounts in pursuance with the provisions in the National Internal Revenue Code, which are sufficient for purposes of this Code, Books of accounts not required to be registered in the BIR, but required under this Code shall be registered at the Treasurer’s Office concerned.

Section 5. Examination of Books of Accounts - For the effective enforcement and collection of the taxes, charges and fees prescribed under this Code, only the Municipal Treasurer or other duly authorized representatives, in writing, may examine the books of accounts and other pertinent and other pertinent records or any person doing business with the Municipality. The examination shall be made during regular business hours, not often than once every year for each business establishment. Any examination conducted pursuant to the provisions of this Code shall be certified to the examining officials and such certificate shall be made of record in the books of accounts of the taxpayer concerned. If the examination is made by duly representative of the treasurer, the written authority shall specifically state the name, addresses and business of the taxpayer whose books of accounts are to be examined, the date and place of such examination, and the procedure to be followed in conducting the same. Unless the taxpayer keeps regular books of accounts and/or records required by the National Internal Revenue Code and regulations, it shall be his duty to keep such books and other records as are approved by the Municipal Treasurer or his duly authorized deputies, which shall truly reflect his business or trade for the purpose of the taxes provided herein. The books of accounts and/or records shall be preserved by the taxpayer for a period of five (5) years from the date of the last entry thereof. If the taxpayer keeps his regular books of accounts and/or other records outside the territorial limits of the Municipality, he shall keep copies thereof in his business establishment or office in the Municipality and submit the same for examination when required. If the records of taxpayer are in danger of being destroyed or hidden in order to render their examination futile or to subvert the examination or collection of any tax delinquency or deficiency, the local treasurer may petition the proper court, for authority to impound said books of accounts and/or records. If the court is convinced that there is reasonable ground to believe the petition to be meritorious, it may order that the books of accounts and/or records to be entrusted to the custody of the petitioner until the examination is terminated and the deficiency is collected if any.

Section 6. Taxpayers record – It shall be the duty of the treasurer or his duly authorized representatives to keep a record, alphabetically arranged and open to public inspection, of the names of all persons paying taxes, fees, and charges to the Municipality.

Section 7. Inspection of Business Establishment – Business establishments which operate, conducts or maintain respective business within the Municipality are subject to inspection on their compliance with the requirements of existing laws rules and regulations on public health, welfare and safety by deputies of the different Department of the Municipality charged with the particulars duties. The business permit or license or any establishment which violates the requirements mentioned in this Section may be revoked by the Municipal Mayor without refund of the amount paid for the taxes, fees and charges.

Section 8. Municipal Assessor to furnish in advance Real Property Tax Order of Payment – The Municipal Assessor shall furnish the Office of the Municipal Treasurer all Real Property Tax Order of payment within the first month of each quarter/year as the case may be who shall (Municipal Treasurer) send the same including the computation of tax due to all taxpayer within one(1) month before the deadline for payment of the tax. The Municipal Assessor shall likewise furnish the Municipal Treasurer the usual assessment roll, notice of reassessment/or cancellation of assessment as well as all documents needed for the efficient collection and administration of the real property tax.

TITLE 11 – CIVIL REMEDIES FOR COLLECTION OF REVENUES

Section 1. Application – The provisions of this Chapter and the remedies herein provided may be availed of for the collection of any delinquent local tax, fee, charge, or other revenues.

Section 2. Local Government’s Lien – Local taxes, fees, charges, and other revenues constitute a lien, superior, to all liens charges or encumbrances in favor of any person, enforceable by appropriate administrative or judicial action, not only upon any property or rights therein which may be subject to

the lien but also upon any property used in business, occupation, practice of profession or calling or exercise of privilege with respect to which the liens is imposed. The lien may only be extinguished upon full payment of the delinquent local taxes, fees and charged including related surcharges and interests.

Section 3. Civil Remedies – The civil remedies for the collection of local taxes, fees, or charges, and related surcharges and interests resulting from delinquencies shall be:

a. By administrative action through distrain of goods, chattels, or effects, and other personnel property of whatever character, including stocks and other securities, debts, credits, bank accounts, and interest in and rights of personal property, and by levy upon real property and interest in or rights to real property; and b. By judicial action Either of these two (2) remedies or both may be pursued concurrently or simultaneously at the discretion of the LGU concerned.

Section 4. Personal Property Exempt from Distraint of Levy – The property shall be exempt from distraint and the Levy, attachment or execution thereof for delinquent in the payment of any local tax, fee, or charge, including related surcharges and interests: a) Tools and implements necessarily used by the delinquent taxpayer in his trade or employ-ment; b) One (1) horse, cow, carabao, or other beast of burden, such as the delinquent taxpayer may select and necessarily used by him in his ordinary occupants. c) His necessary clothing, and that of all his family; d) Household furniture and utensils, necessary for housekeeping and used for that purpose by the delinquent taxpayer, such as he may select, or a value not exceeding Ten Thousand Pesos (Php10,000.00); e) Provisions including crops, actually provided for individual or family use sufficient for four (4) months; f) The professional libraries of doctors, engineers, lawyers and judges; g) One (1) fishing boat and net, not exceeding the total value of Ten Thousand Pesos (Php10,000.00) by the lawful used of which fisherman earns his livelihood; and h) Any material or article forming part of a house or improvement of any real property.

TITLE III. TAXPAYER’S REMEDIES

Section 1. Period of Assessment and Collection a) Local taxes, fees, charges shall be assessed within five (5) years from the date they became due. No action for the collection of such taxes, fees or charges, whether, administrative or judicial, shall be instituted after the expiration of such period provided that taxes, fees or charges which have accrued before the effectivity of the Code may be assessed within a period of three (3) years from the date they became due b) In case of fraud or intent to evade the payment of taxes, fees, or charges, the same may be assessed within ten (10) years from discovery of the fraud or intent to evade payment c) Local taxes, fees or charges may be collected within five (5) years from the date of assess-ment by administrative or judicial action, provided that taxes, fees or charges assessed before the effectivity of the Code may be colledted within a period of three (3) years from the date of assessment. d) The running of the periods of prescription provided in the preceding paragraph shall be suspended for the time during which; 1) The treasurer is legally prevented from making the assessment of collection; 2) The taxpayer request re-investigation and execute a waiver in writing before expiration of the period within which to assess or collect; and 3) The taxpayer is out of the country or otherwise cannot be located.

Section 2. Protest on Assessment – When the local treasury or his duly authorized repre-sentative finds that correct taxes, fees, or charges have not been paid, he shall issue a notice of assessment stating the nature of the tax, fee, or charge, the amount of deficiency, the surcharges, interests, and penalties. Within sixty (60) days from receipt of the notice of assessment, the tax-payer may file a written protest with the local treasurer contesting the assessment; otherwise, the assessment shall be come final and executory. The Local Treasurer shall decide the protest within sixty (60) days from the time of its filling. If the Local Treasurer finds the protest to be wholly or partly meritorious, he shall issue a notice canceling wholly or partially the assessment. If the Local Treasurer finds the assessment to be wholly or partly correct, he shall deny the protest wholly or partly correct. He shall deny the protest wholly or partly with notice to the taxpayer. The taxpayer shall have thirty (30) days from the receipt of the denial of the protest or from the laps of the sixty-day period prescribed in this Article within which to appeal with the court or competent jurisdiction; otherwise, the assessment becomes conclusive and inapplicable.

Section 3. Claim for Refund or Tax Credit – All taxpayers entitled to a refund or tax credit provided in this code shall file with the Local Treasurer a claim in writing duly supported by evidence of payment (e.r., official receipt, tax clearance, and such other proof of evidencing over payment) within two (2) years from payment of the tax, fee, or charge. No case or preceding shall be entertained any court without this claims in writing, and after the expiration of two (2) years from the date of payment of such tax, fee, or charge, or from the date the taxpayer is entitled to a refund or tax credit. The tax credit granted a taxpayer shall not be refundable in cash but shall only be applied to future tax obligation of the same taxpayer for the same business. If a taxpayer has paid in full the tax due for the entire year and he shall have no other tax obligation payable to the Municipality during the year, his tax credits, if any, shall be applied in full during the first quarter of the next calendar year on the tax due from him for the same business of said calendar year. Any unapplied balance of the tax credit shall be refunded in cash in the event that he terminates operation of the business involve within the locality.

TITLE IV. PENAL PROVISIONS

Section 1. General Penal Provision - Any person who violate any provision of this Code or any regulations promulgated there under, for which no specific penalty is prescribed, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Two Thousand Five Hundred Pesos (Php2,500.00), or an imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or both, at the discretion of the Court. If the violation is committed by a juridical person, the president, general manager, or any person entrusted with the administration thereof at the time of the violation was committed shall be held responsible for liable thereof.

TITLE V. FINAL PROVISIONS

Section 1. Separability Clause – If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this Code shall be adjudge by any Court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalid date the remainder of said Code, but shall be confirmed in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved in the controversy.

Section 2. Repealing Clause - All ordinances, rules and regulations or part thereof in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of this Code are hereby repealed, amended, or modified accordingly.

Section 3. Effectivity - This Code shall take effect after its approval and publication in a local newspaper.

WE HEREBY CERTIFY to the correctness of the foregoing ordinance, which was duly enacted by the Sangguniang Bayan during its regular session, held at the Legislative Hall, Sangguniang Bayan Office, Tubod, Lanao del Norte.

(SGD.) EDUARDO C. MANSUETO Municipal Vice Mayor

(SGD.) EDWARD O. PIDO (SGD.) NELLY M. PEPITO (SGD.) CLIFFORD J. JUMALON SBMember SBMember SBMember

(SGD.) JIMMY N. AMAS (SGD.) RUDY L. PEPITO (SGD.) NICASIO C. LACSON SBMember SBMember SBMember

(SGD.) LORIANO S. JUMARITO (SGD.) FELIPE A. PERALES (SGD.) LEONCIO C. BAGOLSBMember SBMember ABC President

(SGD.) PETER JOHN G. YANOCSK Federated President

ATTESTED:

(SGD.) PERLA D. SANTOS APPROVED: Secretary to the Sangguniang Bayan

(SGD.) NELIETA QUIBRANZA-NOVAL Municipal Mayor



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MDN: Sept 20, 27 & Oct. 4, 2012


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