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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 235
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 235 -
AMENDING Section SEVENTY-FIVE OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND
SEVENTY, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF DAGUPAN
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WHEREAS,
there is presently only one branch in the City Court of Dagupan
although there are four branches of the CFI and one Circuit Criminal
Court holding sessions thereat;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, there are over 3,500 cases now pending in the sole branch of
the Dagupan City and this congestion will worsen unless additional
branches are crested;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081 dated September 21, 1972, do hereby
amend Section 75 of Republic Act No. 170, otherwise known as the
Charter of the City of Dagupan, to read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 75. Regular, auxiliary and acting judges of the
City of Court. — There shall be a city court for the City of Dagupan
which shall have three branches for which the regular judges thereof
shall be known, respectively, as judge of the first, second and third
branch. There shall likewise be an auxiliary judge.
The city judge may, upon proper application be allowed a vacation of
not more than thirty days every year with salary. The auxiliary city
judge shall discharge the duties in case of absence, incapacity or
inability of any of the regular judges until he assumes his post, or
until a new judge shall have been appointed. During his incumbency the
auxiliary city judge shall enjoy the powers, emoluments and privileges
of the city judge who shall not receive any remuneration therefor
except the salary to which he is entitled by reason of his vacation
provided for in this Act. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
In case of absence, incapacity or inability, of the regular city judges
and the auxiliary city judge, or if for the same reasons two or more
regular judges could not perform their duties, the Supreme Court shall
designate the judge of any of the adjoining municipalities to preside
over the branch of the city court of the absent or incapacitated judge,
and he shall hold Office temporarily until the regular incumbent or the
auxiliary judge shall have resumed Office or until another judge shall
have been appointed in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
The municipal judge so designated shall receive his salary as municipal
judge plus seventy per cent of the salary of the city judge whose
Office he has temporarily assumed.
The regular city judges shall each receive a compensation as fixed
under existing law for city judges."
This Decree is hereby made part of the law of the land and shall take
effect upon its approval.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 6th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-three.
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