Executive Order No. 399




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 399, December 29, 1941 ] AMENDING PARAGRAPH 4 OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 326 By virtue of the powers vested in me under Commonwealth Act Numbered Six hundred and one, entitled “An Act to regulate the establishment, maintenance and operation of places of amusement in chartered cities, municipalities and municipal districts,” paragraph 4 of Executive Order No. 326 is hereby amended so as to read as follows:1âшphi1 “(a) Days and hours of operation.—Bars shall be open only from 9:00 o’clock a. m. to 2:00 o’clock p. m. every day during the present period of emergency. This is understood to mean that after such closing hour no activity of any kind, whether music, dancing, holding of floor shows, concerts or the like, or the serving of food or drinks of any kind, shall be allowed within the premises of such establishment and the patron shall not be allowed to remain therein: Provided, That any store, place or establishment wherein alcoholic beverages or liquors of any kind are sold shall be considered a bar for the purposes of the limitations as to the days and hours of operation prescribed in these regulations.” Done in the Philippines this twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the seventh. (Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS Secretary to the President The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation