REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5135 - AN ACT
PROVIDING ONE ADDITIONAL JUDGE FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT TO
PRESIDE OVER THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF SURIGAO DEL SUR, WITH
PERMANENT STATION IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF LIANGA, PROVINCE OF SURIGAO
DEL SUR, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECTION FIFTY AND FIFTY-TWO OF THE
JUDICIARY OF ACT OF 1948
Section 1.
The fifteenth paragraph of Section fifty of Republic
Act Numbered Two hundred ninety-six otherwise known as "The Judiciary
Act of 1948," as amended, is further amended to read as follows:
"Fourteen judges shall be commissioned for the fifteenth Judicial
District. Three judges shall preside over the Court of First Instance
of Surigao del Norte; two judges shall preside over the Court of First
Instance of Surigao Del Sur; two judges shall preside over the Courts
of First Instance of Agusan and Butuan City and shall be known as
judges of the first and second branches thereof, respectively; four
judges shall preside over the Courts of First Instance of Oriental
Misamis, Cagayan de Oro City and Bukidnon and shall be known as judges
of the first, second, third, and fourth branches thereof, respectively;
and three judges shall preside over the Courts of First Instance of
Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur and cities of Marawi and Iligan, and
shall be known as judges of the first, second and third
branches thereof."
Sec. 2. The fourteenth subparagraph of the second
paragraph of Section fifty-two of the same Act, as amended, is further
amended to read as follows:
"For the fifteenth Judicial District, two judges shall be stationed in
the Municipality of Surigao, Province of Surigao del Norte; one judge
shall be stationed in the Island of Siargao, Municipality of Dapa, same
province; one judge shall be stationed in the Municipality of Tandang,
Province of Surigao del Sur; and one judge, in the Municipality of
Lianga, same province; one judge shall be stationed in the City of
Cagayan de Oro; one judge in the municipality of Malaybalay, Province
of Bukidnon; one judge in the Municipality of Medina, Province of
Misamis Oriental; and one judge shall be stationed in the Municipality
of Medina, Province of Catarman, Camiguin Island, subject to call for
service by the Secretary of Justice at Cagayan de Oro City; one judge
shall be stationed in the City of Marawi; one judge shall be stationed
in the Municipality of Bayang, Province of Lanao del Sur; one judge in
the City of Iligan; and two judges in the City of Butuan."
Sec. 3. There is hereby authorized to be
appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, such sum as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of
this Act.
Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 17, 1967.
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