REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4604 - AN ACT
AMENDING SECTIONS TWENTY-THREE, TWENTY-FIVE AND TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ILOILO BY CREATING THE POSITION OF CITY ASSESSOR
Section 1.
The first, second and third paragraphs of Section twenty-three of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred fifty-eight,
otherwise known as the Charter of the City of Iloilo, as amended, are
further amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 23. City departments. — There shall be the
following city departments over which the Mayor shall have general
supervisory control:
"1. Department of Finance.
"2. Department of Engineering and Public Works.
"3. Legal Department.
"4. Police and Fire Department.
"5. Department of Assessment.
"The board may from time to time make such readjustments of the duties
of the several departments as the public interest may demand.
"The chiefs of departments shall receive the annual salaries provided
for by Republic Act Numbered Eight hundred forty, as amended."
Sec. 2. Section twenty-five of the same Act is
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 25. Appointment and Removal of Officers and
Employees. — With the consent of the Commission on Appointments the
President of the Philippines shall appoint the City Treasurer, City
Assessor, the Engineer, the Fiscal, the City Judge, the Auxiliary City
Judge and the Chief of Police. Subject to the provisions of the Civil
Service Law, the Mayor shall appoint all other officers and employees
of the city whose appointment is not otherwise provided by law. The
suspension or removal of the same should be subject to the provisions
of Executive Order Numbered Thirty-nine of the President of the
Philippines. The Mayor shall recommend to the President of the
Philippines the suspension or removal of any officer or employee of the
executive or administrative departments of the city appointed by said
President, whose decision shall be final."
Sec. 3. A new article heading is hereby inserted
before Section twenty-eight of the same Act to read as follows:
"Article V-A. — DEPARTMENT OF ASSESSMENT"
Sec. 4. Section twenty-eight of the same Act is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 28. Powers and duties of the city assessor. —
The city assessor shall have charge of the department of assessment.
The city assessor and his authorized deputies, who are empowered to
administer any oath authorized to be administered in connection with
the valuation of real estate for the assessment and collection of
taxes, shall appraise and value all the real estate in the city, and
assess for taxation all such real estate not expressly exempt except
machines, mechanical contrivances, instruments, tools, implements,
appliances, apparatus, and paraphernalia used for industrial,
agricultural, or manufacturing purposes, which shall be excluded from
such valuation and assessment whether or not attached to lands or
buildings. The city assessor shall make the list of taxable real estate
in the city, and the names of the owners shall be arranged in the order
of the lot and block numbers with a brief description opposite such
name of the property owned by such owners and the cash value thereof.
In making this list, the city assessor shall take into consideration
any sworn statement made by the owners of the property, but shall not
be prevented thereby from considering other evidence on the subject
exercising his own judgment in respect thereto. For the purpose of
completing this list, he and his representative are empowered to enter
upon the real estate for the purpose of examining and measuring the
same, and to summon witnesses, administer oaths to them, and subject
them to examination concerning the ownership and the amount of real
estate and its cash value. It shall be the duty of the city assessor,
so far as is necessary, to examine the records of the office of the
register of deeds in the Province of Iloilo showing the ownership of
real estate in the city."
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 19, 1965
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