Section 1. The first paragraph of Section eleven of Republic
Act Numbered Five hundred twenty-three, as amended by Republic Act
Numbered Thirteen hundred twenty-seven, is further amended to read as
follows:
"Sec. 11. Constitution and organization of the
Municipal Board. — Compensation of members thereof. — The Municipal
Board shall be the legislative body of the city and shall be composed
of the vice-mayor, who shall be its presiding officer and ten
councilors who shall be elected at large by popular vote during every
election for provincial and municipal officials in conformity with the
provisions of the Revised Election Code. In case of sickness, absence,
suspension or other temporary disability of any member of the Board, or
if necessary to maintain a quorum, the President of the Philippines may
appoint a temporary substitute who shall possess all the rights and
perform all the duties of a member of the Board until the return to
duty of the regular incumbents."
Sec. 2. Section fourteen of Republic Act Numbered
Five hundred twenty-three is amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 14. Method of transacting business by the Board
— Veto authentication and publication of ordinances. — Unless the
Executive Secretary orders otherwise, the Board shall hold one ordinary
session for the transaction of business during each week on a day which
it shall fix by resolution, and such extraordinary sessions, not
exceeding thirty days during any one year, as may be called by the
Mayor. It shall sit with open doors, unless otherwise ordered by an
affirmative vote of six members. It shall keep a record of its
proceedings and determine its rules of procedure not herein set forth.
Six members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of business. But a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may
compel the immediate attendance of any member absent without good cause
by issuing to the police of the city an order for his arrest and
production at the session under such penalties as shall have been
previously prescribed by ordinance. Six affirmative votes shall be
necessary for the passage of any ordinance, or of any resolution or
motion directing the payment of money or creating liability, but any
other measure shall prevail upon the majority votes of the members
present at any meeting duly called and held. The ayes and nays shall be
taken and recorded upon the passage of all ordinances, upon all
resolutions or motions directing the payment of money or creating
liability, and, at the request of any member, upon any other resolution
or motion. Each approved ordinance, resolution or motion shall be
sealed with the seal of the Board, signed by the presiding officer and
the secretary of the Board and recorded in a book kept for the purpose,
and shall, on the day following its passage, be posted by the secretary
at the main entrance of the City Hall, and shall take effect and be in
force on and after the tenth day following its passage unless otherwise
stated in said ordinance, resolution or motion or vetoed by the Mayor
as hereinafter provided. A vetoed ordinance, if repassed, shall take
effect ten days after the veto is overridden by the required votes
unless otherwise stated in the ordinance or again disapproved by the
Mayor within said time.
"Each ordinance and each resolution or motion directing the payment of
money or creating liability enacted or adopted by the Board shall be
forwarded to the Mayor for his approval. Within ten days after the
receipt of the ordinance, resolution, or motion, the Mayor shall return
it with his approval or veto. If he does not return it within that
time, it shall be deemed to be approved. If he returns it with his
veto, his reasons therefor in writing shall accompany it. It may then
be again enacted by the affirmative vote of eight members of the Board
and again forwarded to the Mayor for his approval, and if within ten
days after its receipt he does not again return it with his veto, it
shall be deemed to be approved. If within said time he again returns it
with his veto, it shall be forwarded forthwith to the Executive
Secretary for his approval or disapproval, which shall be final. The
Mayor shall have the power to veto any particular item or items of an
appropriation ordinance, or of an ordinance, resolution or motion
directing the payment of money or creating liability, but the veto
shall not affect the item or items to which he does not object. The
item or items objected to shall not take effect in the manner
heretofore provided in this section as to ordinances, resolutions, and
motions returned to the Board with his veto, but should an item or
items in an appropriation ordinance be disapproved by the Mayor, the
corresponding item or items in the appropriation ordinance of the
previous year shall be deemed restored unless otherwise expressly
directed in the veto.
"The Executive Secretary shall have full power to disapprove directly,
in whole or in part, any ordinance, resolution or motion of the
Municipal Board if he finds said ordinance, resolution or motion or
parts thereof, beyond the powers conferred upon the Board."
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: June 22, 1963
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