Amendment to R.A. No. 327 (Charter of Dumaguete City)
Republic Act No. 684, enacted on May 9, 1952, amends the Charter of the City of Dumaguete by granting the city authority to impose taxes, set license fees, and regulate businesses related to the storage and sale of copra, among other products. This includes a wide range of industries that may pose risks to public safety, such as match factories, blacksmith shops, and tanneries. The amendment aims to enhance local governance by allowing the city to manage businesses that could potentially lead to hazards or explosions. The law took effect upon its approval and was published in the Official Gazette.
Law Information
- Reference Number
- Republic Act No. 684
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Statutes
- Subcategory
- Republic Acts
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
May 9, 1952
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 684
AN ACT TO AMEND SUBSECTION (p) OF SECTION FIFTEEN OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF DUMAGUETE, BY EMPOWERING SAID CITY TO TAX, FIX THE LICENSE FOR, REGULATE THE BUSINESS AND FIX THE LOCATION OF, THE STORAGE AND SALE OF COPRA THEREIN
SECTION 1. Subsection (p) of section fifteen of Republic Act Numbered Three hundred and twenty-seven is amended to read as follows: casia
"(p) To tax, fix the license fee for, regulate the business and fix the location of, match factories, blacksmith shops, foundries, steam boilers, lumberyards, shipyards, the storage and sale of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal, oil, gasoline, benzine, turpentine, copra, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and of all other establishments likely to endanger the public safety or give rise to conflagrations or explosions, and, subject to the rules and regulations issued by the Director of Health in accordance with law, tanneries, renderies, tallow chandleries, embalmers, and funeral parlors, bone factories, and soap factories." casia
SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: May 9, 1952
Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 48, No. 5, p. 1691 in May 1952
Cite This Law
Amendment to R.A. No. 327 (Charter of Dumaguete City), Republic Act No. 684, May 9, 1952 (Philippines)
Amendment to R.A. No. 327 (Charter of Dumaguete City), Republic Act No. 684 (Phil. 1952)
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