Amendment to Revised Charter of City of Manila Re: City Fiscal and Asst. City Fiscals

June 19, 1960

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3010

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION THIRTY-EIGHT OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED NINE, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE REVISED CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MANILA

SECTION 1. Section thirty-eight of Republic Act Numbered Four hundred nine, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Eighteen hundred sixty, is further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 38. The City Fiscal and Assistant City Fiscals. — There shall be in the Office of the City Fiscal one chief to be known as the City Fiscal with the rank of a district judge, an assistant chief to be known as the first assistant city fiscal, three second assistant city fiscals who shall be the chiefs of divisions, and fifty-seven assistant fiscals, who shall discharge their duties under the general supervision of the Secretary of Justice. To be eligible for appointment as City Fiscal one must be a citizen of the Philippines and must have practiced law in the Philippines for a period of not less than ten years or held during a like period an office in the Philippine Government requiring admission to the practice of law as an indispensable requisite. To be eligible for appointment as assistant fiscal one must be a citizen of the Philippines and must have practiced law for at least five years prior to his appointment or held during a like period an office in the Philippine Government requiring admission to the practice of law as an indispensable requisite.

"The City Fiscal and his assistants shall receive the salaries hereinafter set forth, which shall be paid by the City of Manila:

"(a) City Fiscal, twelve thousand pesos per annum.

"(b) First assistant city fiscal, eleven thousand six hundred pesos per annum.

"(c) Three second assistant city fiscals who shall be the chiefs of the three divisions, eleven thousand five hundred pesos per annum each.

"(d) Six assistant fiscals, eleven thousand pesos per annum each.

"(e) Six assistant fiscals, ten thousand five hundred pesos per annum each.

"( f ) Six assistant fiscals, ten thousand pesos per annum each.

"(g) Six assistant fiscals, nine thousand six hundred pesos per annum each. aisa dc

"(h) Six assistant fiscals, nine thousand pesos per annum each.

"(i) Six assistant fiscals, eight thousand four hundred pesos per annum each.

"( j) Six assistant fiscals, seven thousand eight hundred pesos per annum each.

"(k) Ten assistant fiscals, seven thousand two hundred pesos per annum each.

"(l) Five assistant fiscals, six thousand pesos per annum each."

SECTION 2. All incumbent assistant fiscals of the City of Manila occupying positions affected by the preceding section at the time of the approval of this Act, shall continue to occupy their respective positions and receive the salary increase herein provided without the necessity of any new appointment.

Only those in paragraph (l) shall require appointments.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Enacted without Executive approval, June 19, 1960.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 57, No. 21, p. 3885 on May 22, 1961