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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1245 - AN
ACT AMENDING SECTION TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED AND NINETEEN AND ONE-HALF OF
THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES |
Section 1.
Section twenty-two hundred and nineteen and one-half of the Revised
Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "Sec. 2219
½. In each barrio there shall be organized a
barrio council which shall be composed of a barrio lieutenant, and such
number of deputy barrio lieutenants as there are sitios within the
barrio, a councilman for livelihood, a councilman for education, and a
councilman for health. They shall be elected at a meeting to be
attended by at least one-half of all the residents of the barrio who
are qualified voters. The election shall take place annually on the
third Tuesday of January. The councilor of the barrio shall convoke and
preside over the meeting. He shall appoint a board of inspectors and
canvassers to conduct the election. The manner of election may be by
open or secret ballot as one-half of the voters attending the election
meeting may decide. Those who obtain the highest number of votes for
the position for which they are candidates shall be declared elected
and shall assume office immediately. "Every bona fide resident of the
barrio of twenty-one years of age or over is eligible to vote in the
election, provided he has been a resident of the barrio at least six
months prior to the election.cralaw "The members of the barrio
council shall hold office for one year or until their successors are
duly elected and qualified. But in no case can he be re-elected for
more than four consecutive terms, unless two years have elapsed from
the expiration of his last term, in which case he shall again be
eligible for election to any barrio office. They shall not receive any
compensation or emolument of any kind. The municipal, provincial or
national seats of government or for time spent during working days on
legitimate barrio business, shall be reimbursed in a manner to be
decided upon by the qualified voters of the barrio in a barrio meeting
wherein at least three-fourths of the qualified voters are in
attendance, or this matter may be entrusted to the council itself by a
vote of three-fourths of the voters in attendance in the aforesaid
barrio meeting.cralaw "(a) To
represent the barrio or portion of barrio where it is located, in cases
in which such representation is not incompatible with the personality
of the municipal council; (b) to hold a regular session once a month;
(c) to make their own rules of procedure which shall be approved by the
councilor of the place before they take said councilor, such suggestion
or recommendations as they may see fit for improvements in their place
or for the welfare of the inhabitants thereof; (e) to provide for the
publication by town crier or such other means as they see fit, of new
laws and municipal ordinances they may consider as important; (f) to
organize at least three times a year civil lectures tending to
generalize information concerning the duties and rights of citizenship;
and (g) to offer to the Government the cooperation necessary locally
for the success of measure of general interest. The barrio councilmen
may hold their sessions in the public school building of the place
during hours when there are no classes, or in any house or lot in the
barrio the provisional or permanent use of which may be granted to them
for said purpose free of charge; and shall elect from among their
number a secretary who shall prepare short minutes of the proceedings
of the council and draft the recommendations or suggestions to be
submitted by the same to the municipal council, in either the official
languages of the country or in the local dialect." Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.cralaw Approved: June 10, 1955 |