REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5827 - AN
ACT AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED
TWENTY, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SAN PABLO
Section 1. Section fifteen of Commonwealth Act Numbered Five
hundred twenty, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 15. General powers and duties of the Board. —
Except as otherwise provided by law, and subject to the conditions and
limitations thereof, the Municipal Board shall have the following
legislative powers:
(a) To provide for the law and collection of taxes
for general and special purposes in accordance with law including
specifically the power to levy real property tax not to exceed two per
centum ad valorem.
(b) To make all appropriations for the expenses of
the government of the city.
(c) To fix the number and salaries of officials and
employees of the city not otherwise provided for in this Act.
(d) To authorize the free distribution of medicines
to the employees and laborers of the city whose salary or wage does not
exceed one hundred eighty pesos per month or six pesos per day; of
fresh or evaporated native milk to indigent mothers residing in the
city and of bread and light meals to indigent children of ten years or
less of age residing in the city, the distribution to be made under the
direct supervision and control of the Mayor.
(e) To fix the tariff of fees and charges of all
services rendered by the city or any of its departments, branches, or
officials.
(f) To provide for the erection and maintenance or
the rental of the necessary buildings for the use of the city.
(g) To establish and maintain schools as provided by
laws and with the approval of the Director of Public Schools or
Vocational Education, to fix reasonable tuition fees for instruction
therein.
(h) To establish or aid in the establishment and
maintenance of vocational schools and institutions of higher learning
conducted by the National Government or any of the Director of Public
Schools or Vocational Education, to fix reasonable tuition fees for
instruction in the vocational schools and in those higher institutions
supported entirely by the city.
(i) To establish and maintain an efficient police
force and make all necessary police ordinances, with a view to the
confinement and reformation of vagrants, disorderly persons,
mendicants, prostitutes, and persons convicted of violating any of the
ordinances of the city.
(j) To establish and maintain an efficient fire force
and provide engine houses, fire engines, hose carts, hooks and ladders,
and other equipment for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and
to regulate the management and use of the same.
(k) To establish fire zones, determine the kinds of
buildings or structures that may be erected within their limits,
regulate the manner of constructing and repairing the same, and fix the
fees for permits for the construction, repair, or demolition of
buildings and structures.
(l) To regulate the use of lights in stables, shops,
and other buildings and places, and to regulate and restrict the
issuance of permits for the building of bonfires and the use of
firecrackers, fireworks, skyrockets, and other pyrotechnic displays,
and to fix the fees for such permits.
(m) To make regulations to protect the public from
conflagration and to prevent and mitigate the effects of famine,
floods, storms, and other public calamities, and to provide relief for
persons suffering from the same.
(n) To regulate and fix the amount of the license
fees for the following: Hawkers, peddlers and hucksters, not including
hucksters or peddlers who sell only native vegetables, fruits or foods,
personally carried by the hucksters or peddlers; auctioneers, plumbers,
barbers, collecting agencies, mercantile agencies, shipping and
intelligence offices, private detective agencies, advertising agencies,
beauty parlors, massagists, tattooers, jugglers, acrobats, hotels,
clubs, restaurants, cafes, lodging houses, boarding houses, livery
garages, livery stables, dealers in large cattle, public billiard
tables, laundries, cleaning and dyeing establishments, public vehicles,
race tracks, horse races, bowling alleys, shooting galleries,
merry-go-round, pawnshops, dealers in second-hand merchandise, junk
dealers brewers, distillers, rectifiers, money changers and brokers,
public ferries, theaters, theatrical performances, cinematographs,
public exhibitions, circuses, and all other performances and places of
amusements, and the keeping, preparation, and sale of meat, poultry,
fish, game, butter, cheese, lard, vegetables, bread, and other
provisions.
(o) To tax and fix the license fees on dealers in new
automobiles or accessories or both, and retail dealers in new
merchandise, which dealers are not yet subject to the payment of any
municipal tax. For the purpose of taxation, those retail dealers shall
be classified as (A) retail dealers in general merchandise, and (B)
retail dealers exclusively engaged in the sale of (a) textiles
including knitted wares, (b) hardwares including glasswares, cooking
utensils, electrical goods and construction materials, (c) groceries
including toilet articles except perfumery, (d) drugs including
medicines and perfumeries, (e) books including stationery, paper, and
office supplies, (f) jewelry, (g) slippers, (h) arms, ammunitions, and
sporting goods.
(p) To tax, fix the license fee for, regulate the
business and fix the location of, match factories, blacksmith shops,
foundries, steam boilers, lumber yards, ship yards, the storage and
sale of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal, oil, gasoline, benzine,
turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerin, petroleum, or any of the
products thereof, and of all highly combustible or explosive materials,
and other establishments likely to endanger the public safety or give
rise to conflagrations or explosions, and, subject to the rules and
regulations issued by the Director of Health in accordance with law,
tanneries, renderies, tallow chandleries, embalmers and funeral
parlors, bone factories, and soap factories.
(q) To impose tax on motor and other vehicles, and
draft animals not paying any national tax; provided, that all
automobiles and trucks belonging to the National Government or to any
provincial or municipal government and automobiles and trucks not
regularly kept in the city shall be exempt from such tax.
(r) To regulate, the method of using steam engines
and boilers, and all other motive powers other than marine or belonging
to the Government of the Philippines; to provide for the inspection
thereof, and for a reasonable fee for such inspection, and to regulate
and fix the fees for the licenses of the engineers engage in operating
the same.
(s) To enact ordinances for the maintenance and
preservation of peace and good morals.
(t) To regulate and fix the license fees for the
keeping of dogs, to authorize their impounding and destruction when
running at large contrary to ordinances, and to tax and regulate the
keeping or training of fighting cocks.
(u) To establish and maintain municipal pounds; to
regulate, restrain, and prohibit the running at large of domestic
animals, and provide for the distraining, impounding and sale of the
same for the penalty incurred, and the cost of the proceedings; and to
impose penalties upon the owners of said animals for the violation of
any ordinance in relation thereto.
(v) To prohibit and provide for the punishment of
cruelty to animals.
(w) To regulate the inspection, weighing, and
measuring of brick, lumber, coal, and other article of merchandise.
(x) To prohibit the establishment or operation of
dancehalls, cabarets, and cockpits.
(y) Subject to the provisions of existing law, to
provide for the laying out, construction, and improvement, and to
regulate the use of streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, parks,
cemeteries, and other public places; to provide for lighting, cleaning,
and sprinkling of streets and public places; to regulate, fix license
fees for, and prohibit the use of the same for processions; signs,
signposts, awning, awning posts, the carrying or displaying of banners,
placards, advertisements, or handbills, or the flying of signs, flags,
or banners, whether along, across, over or from buildings along the
same; to prohibit the placing, throwing, depositing, or leaving of
obstacles of any kind, offal, garbage, refuse, or other offensive
matter or matters liable to cause damage, in the streets and other
public places, and to provide for the inspection of, fix the license
fees for, and regulate the openings in the same for the laying of gas,
water, sewer, and other pipes, the building and repair of tunnels,
sewers, and drains, and all structures in and under the same, and the
erecting of poles and the stringing of wires therein; to provide for
and regulate crosswalks, curbs, and gutters therein; to name streets,
without a name and provide for and regulate the numbering of houses and
lots fronting thereon or in the interior of the blocks; to regulate
traffic and sales upon the streets and other public places; to provide
for the abatement of nuisances in the same and punish the authors or
owners thereof; to provide for the construction and maintenance, and
regulate the use, of bridges, viaducts, and culverts; to prohibit or
regulate ball playing, kite flying, hoop rolling, and other amusements
which may annoy persons using the streets and public places, or
frighten horses or other animals; to regulate the speed of horses and
other animals; motor and other vehicles, cars, and locomotives within
the limits of the city; to regulate the lights used on such vehicles,
cars, and locomotives; to regulate the locating, constructing, and
laying of the track of horse, electric, and other forms of railroad in
the streets or other public places of the city authorized by laws
unless otherwise provided by law, to provide for and change the
location, grade, and crossings of railroads, and to compel any such
railroad to raise or lower its tracks to conform to such provisions or
changes; and to require railroad companies to fence their property, or
any part thereof to provide suitable protection against injury or
persons, and to construct and repair ditches, drains, sewers, and
culverts along and under their tracks, so that the natural drainage of
the streets and adjacent property shall not be obstructed.
(z) To provide for the construction and maintenance
of, and regulate the navigation on, canals, and water-courses, within
the city and provide for the clearing and purification of the same;
unless otherwise provided by law, to provide for the construction and
maintenance, and regulate the use, of public landing places, and to
those of private ownership; and to provide for and regulate the
drainage and filling of private premises when necessary in the
enforcement of sanitary rules and regulations issued in accordance with
law.
(aa) Subject to the provisions of existing laws, to
exercise the power of eminent domain for the following purposes; the
construction or extension of roads, streets, sidewalks, boulevards, or
airfields, the construction of public buildings including schoolhouses
and the making of necessary improvements in connection therewith, the
establishment of parks, playgrounds, plazas, market places, artesian
wells, or systems for the supply of water, irrigation, canals and dams,
and the establishment of nurseries, breeding centers for animals,
health centers, hospitals, cemeteries, drainage systems, cesspools, or
sewerage systems and abattoirs.
(bb) To provide for the maintenance of waterworks for
the purpose of supplying water to the inhabitants of the city, and for
the purification of the source of water supply and the places through
which the same passes, and to regulate the consumption and use of the
water, to fix, subject to the provisions of the Public Service Law, and
provide for the collection of, rents therefor; and to regulate the
construction, repair and use of hydrants, pumps, cisterns and
reservoirs.
(cc) To provide for the establishment and maintenance
and regulate the use, of public drains, sewers, latrines, and
cesspools.
(dd) Subject to the rules and regulations issued by
the Director of Health Services in accordance with law, to provide for
the establishment, maintenance and regulation and fix the fees for the
use of public stables, laundries and baths, and public markets and
prohibit the establishment or operation within the city limits of
public markets by any person, entity, association or corporation other
than the city.
(ee) To establish or authorize the establishment of
slaughterhouses, to provide for their veterinary or sanitary
inspection, to regulate the use of same, and to charge reasonable
slaughter fees. No fees shall be charged for veterinary or sanitary
inspection of meat from large cattle or other domestic animals
slaughtered outside the city, when such inspection was had at the place
where the animals were slaughtered.
(ff) To regulate, inspect, and provide measures
preventing any discrimination or the exclusion of any race or races in
or from any institution, establishment, or service open to the public
within the city limits; to regulate and provide for the inspection of
all gas, electric, telephone, and street-railway, conduits, mains,
meters, and other apparatus, and provide for the condemnation,
substitution, or removal of the same when defective or
dangerous.
(gg) To declare, prevent, and provide for the
abatement of nuisances; to regulate the ringing of bells and the making
of loud or unusual noises; to provide that owners, agents, or tenants
of buildings or premises keep and maintain the same in sanitary
condition, and that, in case of failure to do so after sixty days from
the date of serving a written notice, the city health officer shall
cause the same to be kept in a sanitary condition, and the cost thereof
to be assessed to the owner to the extent of not to exceed sixty per
centum of the assessed value, which cost shall constitute a lien
against the property; and to regulate or prohibit or fix the license
fees for the use of property on or near public ways, grounds, or
places, or elsewhere within the city, for a display of electric signs
or the erection or maintenance of billboards or structures of whatever
material, erected, maintained, or used for the display of posters,
signs, or other pictorial or reading matter, except signs displayed at
the place or places where the profession or business advertised thereby
is in whole or part conducted.
(hh) To provide for the enforcement of the rules and
regulations of the Director of Health Services, and by ordinance to
prescribe penalties for violations of such rules and regulations.
(ii) To extend its ordinances over all waters within
the city, over any boat or other floating structures thereon and, for
the purpose of protecting and insuring the purity of the water supply
of the city, over all territory within the drainage area of such water,
supply, and within one hundred meters of any reservoir, conduit, canal,
aqueduct, or pumping station used in connection with the city water
service.
(jj) To tax, fix the license fee for, and regulate
the sale, trading in or disposal of, alcoholic or malt beverages,
wines, and mixed or fermented liquors including tuba, basi, tapuy,
offered for retail sale.
(kk) To regulate any other business or occupation not
specifically mentioned in the preceding paragraphs, and to impose a
license fee upon all persons engaged in the same or who enjoy
privileges in the city.
(ll) To grant fishing and fishery privileges subject
to the provisions of the Fisheries Act.
(mm) To fix the date of the holding of a fiesta in
the city not oftener than once a year and to alter, not oftener than
once in three years, the date so fixed for the celebration thereof.
(m-1) To provide for the establishment and
maintenance of a telephone, gas, electric, heat and power systems, and,
subject to the provisions of the Public Service Law, to fix the charges
for the use of said service.
(nn) To enact all ordinances it may deem necessary
and proper for the sanitation and safety, the furtherance of the
prosperity, and the promotion of the morality, peace, good order,
comfort, convenience, and general welfare of the city and its
inhabitants, and such others as may be necessary to carry into effect
and discharge the powers and duties conferred by this Act, and to fix
the penalties for the violation of ordinance, which shall not exceed a
two hundred-peso fine or six months imprisonment, or both such fine and
imprisonment, for a single offense."
Sec. 2. The first paragraph of Section twenty-two,
excluding its subsections, of the same Act, as amended, is further
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 22. The City Engineer — His powers, duties and
compensation. — There shall be a city engineer, who shall be in charge
of the Department of Engineering and Public Works. He shall receive a
salary of not exceeding twelve thousand six hundred pesos per annum,
chargeable against the Highway Special Fund. He shall have the
following powers and duties."
Sec. 3. Subsection (g) of Section twenty-two of
the same Act, as amended, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. Subsection (i) of Section twenty-two of
the same Act, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(i) He shall have general supervision and inspection
of all landing places, and other property on the river, esteros, and
waterworks of the city, and shall issue permits for the construction,
repair and removal of the same, and enforce all ordinances relating to
the same."
Sec. 5. Section twenty-three of the same Act is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 23. Execution of authorized public works and
improvement. — The city is hereby authorized to undertake and carry out
any public works projects or improvements, financed by the city or any
other funds borrowed from or advanced by private parties under the
supervision of the city engineer, without the intervention of the
Department of Public Works and Communications. The approval of the
plans and specifications thereof by the city mayor and the city
engineer and/or architect with the favorable recommendation of the city
council, shall constitute sufficient warrant for the undertaking and
execution of said projects or improvements. The city may, however, if
it so desires consult the Department of Public Works and Communications
in connection with the preparation of the plans and specifications for
the city public works projects either by administration or by contracts
under the usual bidding procedure of the government."
Sec. 6. The same Act is hereby amended by adding
at the end of Section twenty-three, the following new section:
"Sec. 23-A. Engineering Fund. — The engineering fund
of the city shall be considered as city funds as well as all sums of
money accruing to the city by virtue of any Public Works Act approved
by Congress."
Sec. 7. Section twenty-five of the same Act, as
amended, is amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 25. The Chief of Police — His powers, duties
and compensation. — There shall be a chief of police who shall have
charge of the Police Department and everything pertaining thereto,
including the organization of the city police and detective bureau. He
shall receive a salary of not exceeding thirteen thousand two hundred
pesos per annum. He shall have the following general powers and duties:
(a) He may issue supplementary regulations not
incompatible with law or general regulations promulgated by the proper
department head of the National Government, in accordance with law, for
the governance of the city police and detective force.
(b) He shall quell riots, disorders, disturbances of
the peace, and shall arrest and prosecute violators of any law or
ordinance; shall exercise exclusive police supervision over all land
within the police jurisdiction of the city to the exclusion of any
national police agency unless its assistance is called upon or
requested, shall be charged with the protection of the rights of
persons and property wherever found within the jurisdiction of the
city, and shall arrest when necessary to prevent the escape of the
offender, violators of law or ordinance, and all who obstruct or
interfere with him in the discharge of his duty; shall have charge of
the city prison; and shall be responsible for the safe-keeping of all
prisoners until they shall be released from custody, in accordance with
law, or delivered to the warden of the proper prison or penitentiary
upon order from a court of competent jurisdiction.
(c) He may take good and sufficient bail for the
appearance before the judge of city court of any person arrested for
violation of any city ordinances: Provided, however, That he shall not
exercise this powers in cases of violation of any penal law, except
when the fiscal of the city shall so recommend and fix the bail to be
required of the person arrested.
(d) He shall have authority within the police limits
of the city to serve and execute criminal processes of any court.
(e) He shall be the deputy sheriff of the city, and
as such shall, personally or by representative, attend the session of
the city court, and shall execute promptly and faithfully all writs and
processes of said court.
(f) He shall have such other powers and perform such
other duties as may be prescribed by law or ordinance."
Sec. 8. Section s seventy-five, seventy-six,
seventy-seven, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty, eighty-one and
eighty-two of the same Act as amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 75. Regular, auxiliary, and acting judges of
city court. — There shall be a city court for the City of San Pablo,
for which there shall be appointed a city judge and an auxiliary city
judge.
"The city judge 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 in cases of absences, incapacity or
inability of the city judge until he resumes his posts, 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 and 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 judge and
the auxiliary city judge, the Secretary of Justice, shall designate the
municipal judge of any adjoining municipality to preside over the city
court, the same shall hold office temporarily until the regular
incumbent or the auxiliary judge who shall have been appointed in
accordance with the provisions of this Act. The municipal judge so
designated shall receive his salary as municipal judge plus seventy per
cent of the salary of the city judge whose office he has temporarily
assumed.
"The city judge shall receive a salary of seventeen thousand pesos per
annum, thirteen thousand four hundred pesos of which will come from the
City Government of San Pablo and three thousand six hundred pesos which
is now paid to the city judge by the National Government as provided
for under Republic Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred twenty,
shall be paid out of the funds of the National Treasury: Provided,
however, That which a certain law provides or will provide for a higher
compensation or additional benefits for the city judge than that
provided herein, the city judge will receive the compensation whichever
is higher and he deems best at his option, and enjoy the benefit which
is favorable to him, also at his opinion.
"Sec. 76. Clerk and employees of the city court. —
There shall be a clerk of the city court who shall be appointed by the
city judge in accordance with Civil Service Law, rules and regulations
and who shall receive a compensation of seven thousand eight hundred
pesos per annum. He shall keep the seal of the court and affix it to
all orders, judgments, certificates, records, and other documents
issued by the court. He shall keep a docket of the trials in the court
in which he shall record in a summary manner the names of the parties
and the various proceedings in civil cases and in criminal cases, the
name of the defendant, the charges against him, the names of the
witnesses, the date of the arrest, the appearance of the defendant,
together with the fines and costs adjudged or collected in accordance
with the judgment. He shall have the power to administer
oath.
"There shall be one deputy clerk of court, one researcher, one
stenographer, one interpreter, two clerks, one stitcher, and one
janitor, who shall be appointed by the city judge in accordance with
the Civil Service Law, rules and regulations.
"The deputy clerk of court shall receive a compensation of six thousand
pesos per annum. He shall perform the duties of the clerk of court in
the absence, incapacity, or inability of the clerk of court. Likewise,
he shall have the power to administer oath.
"The researcher shall receive a compensation of five thousand seven
hundred pesos per annum.
"The stenographer shall receive a compensation of four thousand eight
hundred pesos per annum.
"The interpreter shall receive a compensation of four thousand five
hundred pesos per annum.
"The clerks shall receive a compensation of three thousand six hundred
pesos per annum and three thousand pesos per annum, respectively.
"The stitcher shall receive a compensation of two thousand eight
hundred eighty pesos per annum.
"These salaries shall be paid from the funds of the City Government of
San Pablo: Provided, however, That whenever a certain law provides or
shall provide for a higher compensation or additional benefits for the
employees of the city court, the said employees shall receive the
compensation whichever is higher at his option: Provided, further, That
the present employees of the city court shall remain in their
respective positions and the tenure of their office shall be respected.
"The clerk of the city court shall at the same time be sheriff in the
city and shall as such have the same powers and duties as assigned by
existing law to provincial sheriffs. The deputy clerk of court shall
likewise be the deputy city sheriff. The Municipal Board may provide
for such number of clerks in the office of the clerk of the city court
as the needs of the service may demand, who shall be appointed by the
city judge.
"Sec. 77. Jurisdiction of the City court. — The city
court shall have the same jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases and
the same powers as at present conferred by law upon city court and
municipal judges and such additional jurisdiction and powers as may
hereinafter be conferred upon them by law.
"Sec. 78. Incidental powers of city court. — The city
court shall have power to administer oaths and to give certificates
thereof; to issue summonses, writs, warrants and executions and all
other processes necessary to enforce its orders and judgments; to
compel the attendance of witnesses; to punish contempts of court by
fine or imprisonment, or both, within the limitations imposed by law;
and to require of any person arrested a bond for good behavior or to
keep the peace, or for the further appearance of such person before a
court of competent jurisdiction. But no such bond shall be accepted
unless it be executed by the person in whose behalf it is made, with
sufficient surety or sureties to be approved by said court.
"Sec. 79. Procedure in city courts in prosecutions
for violations of laws and ordinances. — In a prosecution for the
violation of any ordinance where the penalty provided for such
violation is imprisonment of not more than thirty days or a fine of not
more than two hundred pesos, or both, the first process shall be a
summon; except that a warrant for the arrest of the offender may be
issued in the first instance when the defendant is a recidivist, or a
fugitive from justice, or is charged with physical injuries, or does
not reside in the City of San Pablo or has no known residence. But the
city judge may order that a defendant charged with such offense be
arrested and not released except upon furnishing bail. All proceedings
and prosecutions for offense against the law of the Philippines shall
conform to the rules relating to process, pleading, practice and
procedure for the judiciary of the Philippines, and such rules shall
govern the city court and its officers in all cases insofar as the same
may be applicable.
"Sec. 80. Costs, fees, fines and forfeitures in city
court. — There shall be taxed against and collected from the defendant,
in case of his conviction in the city court, such costs and fees as may
be prescribed by law in criminal cases in municipal courts. All costs,
fees, fines, and forfeitures shall be collected by the clerk of court,
who shall keep a docket of those imposed and of those collected, and
shall pay collections of the same to the city treasurer for the benefit
of the city on the next succeeding business day after the same are
collected and take receipts therefor.
"Sec. 81. No person sentenced by city court to be
confined without commitment. — No person shall be confined in the city
prison by sentence of the city court until the warden or officer in
charge of the prison shall receive a written commitment showing the
offense for which the prisoner was tried, the date of the trial, the
exact terms of the judgment or sentence, and the date of the order of
the commitment. The clerk shall, under seal of the court, lease such
commitment in such case of sentence to imprisonment.
"Sec. 82. Procedure on appeal from city to Court of
First Instance. — An appeal shall lie to the Court of First Instance in
all cases where fine or imprisonment or both, is imposed by the city
court. The party desiring to appeal shall, before six o'clock post
meridian of the day after the rendition and entry of judgment by the
city court, file with the clerk of court a written statement that he
has appeals to the Court of First Instance. The filing of such
statement shall perfect the appeal. The judge of the court from whose
decision appeal is taken, shall, within five days after the appeal is
taken, transmit to the clerk of Court of First Instance a certified
copy of the record of proceedings and all the original papers and
process in the case. A perfected appeal shall operate to vacate the
judgment of the city court, and the action, when duly entered in the
Court of First Instance, shall stand for the trial de novo upon its
merits as though the same had never been tried. Pending an appeal, the
defendant shall remain in custody unless released in the discretion of
the judge of the city court or of the judge of the Court of First
Instance, upon sufficient bail, in accordance with the procedure in
force, to await the judgment of the appellate court.
"Appeals in civil cases shall be governed by the ordinary procedure
established by law."
Sec. 9. Whenever the phrases "Municipal Court" or
"Municipal Judge" appear in Commonwealth Act Numbered Five hundred
twenty, as amended, the name shall be read and referred to as "city
court" and "city judge" respectively, unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise.
SECTION 10. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969.
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