Executive Order No. 109




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 109, December 03, 1947 ] FURTHER AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 320, DATED JANUARY 27, 1941, AS AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 99, DATED MARCH 11, 1946, AND EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 87, DATED SEPTEMBER 3, 1947, ENTITLED “REGULATING THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF RACE TRACK AND HORSE RACING.” Pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, MANUEL ROXAS, President of the Philippines, do hereby further amend paragraph 5 of Executive Order No. 320, dated January 27, 1941, as amended by Executive Order No. 99, dated March 11, 1946, and Executive Order No. 87, dated September 3, 1947, to read as follows: “5. Automatic electric totalizator or other mechanical device for selling pari mutual tickets.- No person, race track, racing club, nor any other entity holding horse races the gross crossings of which on any race day exceeds fifty thousand pesos, shall be allowed to hold races unless such person, race track, racing club, or entity is provided with an automatic, electrically operated public indicator system and ticket selling machines, by means of which every ticket purchased on every horse in any race, shall be automatically and instantaneously recorded by electrical impulse on a prominently displayed bulletin board, each figure, letter, or symbol of which shall be readable from a distance. However, any such person, race track, racing club, or entity may, upon proper application, be provisionally licensed by the Board on Races to hold horse races even without the required automatic electric totalizator, provided that it shall provide itself with mechanical or other devices by which every ticket purchased on every horse in any race shall be recorded on a prominently displayed bulletin board readable from a distance in lieu of the required automatic electric totalizator which shall be subject to the approval of the Board on Races after they have been tested and found by the Board to be satisfactory; and provided, further, That such person, race track, racing club, or entity shall acquire and install within its premises the required automatic electric totalizator within such period as may be determined by the Board but not beyond June 30, 1948, and failure to comply with this requirement will cause the cancellation of their respective licenses.” Done at the City of Baguio, this 3rd day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the second.1a⍵⍴h!1 (Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) N. ROXAS Acting Chief of the Executive Office The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation