Section 1. Amount of taxes provincial boards allowed to
charge. — Upon recommendation of the Director of Agriculture, 1 the
provincial board 2 of each province is hereby authorized to create a
tax which shall be set aside for the extermination of the locusts in
said province, which tax shall not be less than twenty nor more than
sixty centavos per individual and shall be payable by every male from
sixteen to sixty years of age. Provided, That in provinces where this
tax is established, the provisions of section fourteen of Act Numbered
Twenty-four hundred and seventy-two shall not apply; but said section
shall remain in force in all other provinces.
Sec. 2. Collecting officers. — The tax provided
for in the preceding section shall be collected by the municipal
treasurers of the municipalities, under the direction of the provincial
treasurer, once each year; but provincial boards 3 are authorized to
suspend or refrain from enforcing the collection of the tax for one or
more years when, in their judgment, sufficient funds are on hand for
the purposes of this Act.
Sec. 3. Custody of funds. — The money collected
for the tax herein established shall be in the custody and charge of
the provincial treasurer, who shall make disbursements in accordance
with the orders given by the Locust Board created by Act Numbered
Twenty-four hundred and, seventy-two, in the exercise of the powers
hereby conferred upon said board.
Sec. 4. Authority of Locust Board. — The Locust
Board is hereby authorized to dispose of the funds collected under this
Act: (a) for the payment of wages for each day of labor to the persons
engaged in locust extermination work; (b) for payment for locusts
killed or caught, in such form and manner as said board may determine;
(c) for the acquisition of instruments or apparatus required for
catching or exterminating locusts.
Sec. 5. The provincial board, 4 upon resolving to
create the tax established by this Act, shall fix the time within which
such tax shall be paid.
Sec. 6. Any person liable to the payment of the
tax established by the provincial board 5 of a province who becomes
delinquent, shall pay double the amount of the tax if delinquent for
not more than one week.
Sec. 7. Any person delinquent for one week or more
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to work one day in the
extermination of locusts at a locust-infested place. However, the
delinquent may pay the tax and one-half of the costs before the trial
of the proceedings against him, in which case said proceedings shall be
dismissed.
Sec. 8. Cases against violators. — The justices of
the peace 6 of the municipalities where violators of the provisions of
the foregoing sections reside are hereby authorized to try and decide
cases against such violators, and their decisions in such cases shall
be final, and the sentences imposed shall be executed when the province
concerned or any part thereof is locust-infested.
Sec. 9. The words "locust" and "locust-infested"
as used in this Act shall have the meaning defined in Act Numbered
Twenty-four hundred and seventy-two.
Sec. 10. This Act shall take effect on its
approval.
Footnotes
1. Now Director of Animal Industry.
2. Now Sangguniang Panlalawigan.
3. Id.
4. Id.
5. Id.
6. Now municipal judge.
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