REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5697 - AN
ACT PROVIDING AN ADDITIONAL JUDGE FOR THE CITY COURT OF THE CITY OF
BUTUAN, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE SECTION SEVENTY-SIX OF THE CHARTER OF
THE CITY OF BUTUAN
Section 1. Section seventy-six of Republic Act Numbered Five
hundred twenty-three, otherwise known as the Charter of the City of
Butuan, is amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 76. Regular, auxiliary and acting judges of the
city court. — There shall be a city court for the City of Butuan which
shall have two branches for which the two judges thereof shall be
known, respectively, as judge of the first and second branch, and an
auxiliary city judge.
"The city judges 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 of the city judge in case of absence,
incapacity or inability of the latter 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.
"In case of absence, incapacity or inability of both the city judges
and the auxiliary city judge, the Secretary of Justice shall designate
the justice of the peace of any of the adjoining municipalities to
preside over the city court, and he shall hold the office temporarily
until the regular incumbent or the auxiliary judge thereof shall have
resumed office or until another judge shall have been appointed in
accordance with the provisions of this Act. The justice of the peace so
designated shall receive his salary as justice of the peace plus
seventy per cent of the salary of the city judge whose office he has
temporarily assumed. The city judges shall receive a salary of not
exceeding fifteen thousand pesos per annum, one-half of which shall be
paid by the city government and the other half by the National
Government."
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 21, 1969.
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