REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5264 - AN
ACT CREATING THE PUBLIC RECREATIONS BUREAU IN THE CITY OF MANILA,
AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED NINE,
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE REVISED CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MANILA
Section 1. Republic Act Numbered Four hundred and nine, is
amended, otherwise known as the Revised Charter of the City of Manila,
is hereby further amended by inserting between Articles XIV and XV
thereof, a new article to be known as Article XIV-B, which shall read
as follows:
"Art. XIV-B — Public Recreations Bureau.
"Sec. 80-C. Composition. — There is hereby created a
Public Recreations Bureau in the City of Manila, under the Office of
the Mayor of Manila, which shall be under a director who shall receive
an annual salary of sixteen thousand pesos: Provided, however, That the
incumbent veterinary director of the Manila Zoo shall continue as the
director of such bureau. The director shall be assisted by the
Administrative officer of the Manila Zoo who shall be the executive
officer of the bureau with a compensation of twelve thousand pesos per
annum.
"Sec. 80-D. Duties and responsibilities of the
director. — The director shall have the following duties and
responsibilities:
1. Administer, supervise, maintain, and improve the
zoo, botanical garden and nurseries, aquarium, oceanarium, planetarium,
playgrounds, parks, monuments, historical sites and shrine, historical
markers, natural history museum and public recreation buildings of the
City of Manila; and to prescribe reasonable rules and regulations
subject to the approval of the Mayor for their orderly administration,
operation and maintenance and proper care and protection;
2. Implement and carry out their development and
improvement plans and/or expansion under the supervision and direction
of the City Mayor;
3. Undertake, subject to the approval of the Mayor,
fund campaigns or otherwise receive and accept financial or material
assistance by donation, solicitation, voluntary contribution, or the
sponsorship of carnivals, exhibits, shows, etc., for the improvement,
development, expansion and operation and maintenance of the zoo,
botanical garden and nurseries, aquarium, oceanarium, planetarium,
playgrounds, parks, monuments, historical sites and shrines, historical
markers, natural history museum, and other public recreational
facilities;
4. Provide mechanical and/or electrical amusement
devices, rides and other recreation facilities for rent to the public;
5. Coordinate with cultural, scientific, educational,
athletic and civic organizations to insure the successful
accomplishment of its projects, programs and activities;
6. Acquire different species of animals, plants and
natural history specimens and necessary recreational facilities,
devices and equipment for exhibition or public use;
7. Authorize, subject to the approval of the Mayor,
the establishment or installation by private persons of amusement and
recreational devices within its property and the collection of a
reasonable fee for the use of the same: Provided, That not less than
twenty per centum of the gross receipts therefrom shall accrue to the
credit of this office;
8. Dispose, through sale and exchange, excess animals
no longer needed for exhibition in the zoo, and plants grown and
propagated in the botanical garden and nurseries;
9. Enforce all laws and ordinances pertaining to the
protection, preservation or safety of animals, plants, historical
exhibits, playgrounds and park facilities, etc.;
10. Perform such other duties as the Mayor may assign
from time to time.
"Sec. 80-E. Entrance and recreation fees under a
revolving fund. — The director shall, with the approval of the Mayor,
provide and collect reasonable entrance fee and charges for
recreational facilities and rents or royalties, the provisions of all
laws and ordinances to the contrary notwithstanding; all collections
from this source as well as all royalties, rents, donations,
contributions, proceeds from shows, carnivals, exhibits, etc., shall
accrue to the credit of this office and treated as a special revolving
fund to be expended exclusively for the improvement, development,
expansion, maintenance and operation and the purchase of necessary
equipment, recreational devices, animals, botanical exhibits, and
research, or otherwise for the betterment and promotion of the
operation and management of this office.
Sec. 2. The incumbent officials affected by this
Act shall automatically assume their new positions and receive their
new salaries without the necessity of a new appointment.
Sec. 3. Upon the organization of the Public
Recreations Bureau, all records, personnel, balance of funds and
appropriations, equipment, tools, implements, buildings and facilities
of the Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden, the Division of Parks
and Monuments and the Division of Public Recreation of the Department
of Engineering and Public Works shall be transferred to the Public
Recreations Bureau.
Sec. 4. All laws ordinances, administrative orders
or parts thereof on conflict with any of the provisions of this Act are
hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 15, 1968
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