Memorandum Order No. 263




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 263, July 03, 2007 ] EXPRESSING CONCURRENCE AND RATIFICATION IN THE DEPUTATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER CONCERNED AGENCIES OF THE GOVERNMENT, AS EMBODIED IN COMELEC RESOLUTION NOS. 8148 AND 8147, BOTH PROMULGATED 08 JUNE 2007, IN CONNECTION WITH THE JULY 01, 2007 PLEBISCITE TO RATIFY THE CONVERSION OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CARCAR IN THE PROVINCE OF CEBU INTO A COMPONENT CITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE CITY OF CARCAR, PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT 9436. Pursuant to Section 2, (4), Article IX (C) of the Constitution, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby concur with Resolution Nos. 8148 and 8147 of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), both promulgated 08 June 2007, deputizing the Department of Education (DepEd); Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH); Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), including their secretaries; National Police Commission including its Chairman; and the Philippine National Police (PNP), including its Chief, and all the officers and men under him in the Province of Cebu, for the purpose of ensuring free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible conduct of the July 01, 2007 plebiscite to ratify the conversion of the Municipality of Carcar in the Province of Cebu into a component city to be known as the City of Carcar, pursuant to Republic Act No. 9436. The foregoing national and local officials and employees, law enforcement agencies and other instrumentalities of the government, are hereby directed to coordinate and cooperate with Commission on Elections in the performance of their duties and functions.1âшphi1 This Memorandum Order shall take effect immediately. DONE, in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of July, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Seven. (Sgd.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO By the President: (Sgd.) EDUARDO R. ERMITA Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation