Section 1. Section two thousand five hundred and forty-one of
the Revised Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 2541. Incorporation — Powers. — The
territory within the boundaries described in the next succeeding
section, and the inhabitants thereof, shall be a municipality which
shall be known as the City of Baguio, and by that name shall have
perpetual succession; have and use a common seal and alter the same at
pleasure; sue and be sued, and prosecute and defend to final judgment
and execution; take, purchase, receive, hold, lease, convey, and
dispose of real and personal property, for the benefit of the City
within or without its corporate limits; contract and be contracted
with; to contract loan and borrow money; and execute all the powers
hereinafter conferred."
Sec. 2. Subsections (b), (c), (s) and (w) of
section two thousand five hundred and fifty-three of the same Code are
amended to read as follows:
"(b) To provide for the levy and collection of taxes
and other city revenues and apply the same to the payment of municipal
expenses in accordance with appropriations.
"(c) To tax, fix the license fee, and regulate the
business of the following: hawkers, peddlers, hucksters, not including
hucksters or peddlers who sell only native vegetables, fruits, or
foods, personally carried by the hucksters or peddlers, auctioneers,
plumbers, barbers, embalmers, collecting agencies, mercantile agencies,
transportation companies and agencies, advertising agents, tattooers,
hotels, clubs, restaurants, lodging houses, boarding houses, livery
stables, private police detectives, massagists, manicurists,
chiropodists, hair dressing or beauty parlors, painters, night clubs,
theaters, boarding stables, dealers in large cattle and dogs,
laundries, cleaning and dyeing establishments, shooting galleries,
merry-go-rounds and other similar riding devices, brewers, distillers,
rectifiers, money changers and brokers, stockbrokers, the keeping of,
preparation, and sale of meat, poultry, fish, game, butter, cheese,
lard, vegetables, bread, and other provisions, establishments for
storage of combustible materials, dance halls or schools, physical or
beauty and fashion schools, circus and other similar parades, public
vehicles, horse races, bowling alleys, pawnbrokers, junk dealers,
billiard and pool tables, dealers in second-hand merchandise,
theatrical performances, blacksmith shops, foundries, lumber 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 other highly combustible or explosive
materials, and other establishments likely to endanger the public
safety or give rise to conflagrations or explosions, soap factories,
tailor shops, dress shops, milliners, manufacturers of embroideries,
native cloths, rope, papers, slippers or sandals or both, harness or
valises or bags or any of them, textiles, rattan goods, wire or brass
beds or both, men's shirts, hats, printers or bookbinders or both,
dyes, bottles or glasswares or both, salted or dried fish or both,
fertilizers, nails, and buttons, dealers in hardwares, glasswares,
electrical goods and construction materials, groceries, drugstores,
dealers of arms, ammunition, and sporting goods, and such other
businesses, trades and occupations as may be established or practised
in the city.
"(s) To fill up or require to be filled up to a grade
necessary for proper sanitation any and all lands and premises which
may be declared and duly reported by the Department of Health as being
insanitary by reason of being below such grade or which the opinion of
the council, the public health or welfare may require.
"(w) To enforce the regulations of the Department of
Health, and by ordinance to provide fines and penalties for violations
of such regulations; to adopt such other measures to prevent the
introduction and spread of disease as may, from time to time, be deemed
desirable or necessary."
Sec. 3. Section two thousand five hundred and
fifty-six of the same Code is amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 2556. The City Health Officer. — There shall
be a city health officer who shall have charged of the health
department. He shall have the following general powers and duties:
"(a) He shall have general supervision and control
over the health and sanitary condition of the city including the
cleaning of crematories, cemeteries, stockyards, slaughterhouses, dog
pounds, public toilets, markets, and the collection and disposal of
garbage refuse, the contents of the toilets, cesspools, and all other
offensive and dangerous substances within the city;
"(b) He shall execute and enforce all laws,
ordinances, and regulations relating to the public health;
"(c) He shall recommend to the city council the
passage of such ordinances as he may be deem necessary for the
preservation of the public health;
"(d) He shall cause to be prosecuted all violations
of sanitary laws, ordinances, or regulations;
"(e) He shall make sanitary inspection and may beded
therein by such members of the police force of the city or of the
Philippine Constabulary as shall be designated as sanitary police by
the chief of police or proper constabulary officer;
"(f) He shall perform such other duties with
reference to all aspects of health and sanitation of the city as the
Secretary of Health shall direct;
"(g) He shall have authority to charge, at rates to
be fixed by the city council, fees for sanitation and other related
services and supplies furnished by the department to private parties,
said collections to accrue to the general fund of the city;
"(h) He shall have control and supervision over
laboratories, puericulture centers, clinics and dispensaries, which are
being maintained by the city, other provisions of law to the contrary
notwithstanding; and
"(i) He shall keep a civil register for the city and
record therein all births, marriages, and deaths with their respective
dates."
Sec. 4. A new section, to be known as section two
thousand five hundred and sixty-two-E, is hereby inserted between
sections two thousand five hundred and sixty-two-D and two thousand
five hundred and sixty-three, to read as follows:
"Sec. 2562.-E. No person shall be confined in the
city prison by sentence without commitment. — No person shall be
confined in the city prison by sentence of the municipal 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, issue such a commitment in each case of sentence to
imprisonment."
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: July 15, 1948
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