[ Act No. 754, May 20, 1903 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION THIRTY-TWO OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE BY PROVIDING FOR THE APPROVAL HY THE PROVINCIAL HOARD OF THE ACTION OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL IN EXPELLING A MEMBER THEREOF FOR CAUSE.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section thirty-two of Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled "A general Act for the organization of municipal governments in the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended by inserting before the word "expel" in said section the following words: "subject to the approval of the provincial board, may"; so that said section shall read as follows:
"Section 32.1aшphi1 The municipal council shall determine its own rules of procedure, punish its members for disorderly conduct, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of the members, the council may suspend or, subject to the approval of the provincial board, may expel a member for cause, electing his successor by a majority vote of all the members."
Section 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 3. This Act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundred and three.
Enacted, May 20, 1903.
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