Act No. 1521




[ Act No. 1521, August 07, 1906 ] AN ACT AMENDING SECTION THIRTEEN OF ACT NUMBERED EIGHTY-TWO, THE MUNICIPAL CODE, AS AMENDED, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR NEW ELECTIONS OF MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS WHEN NO QUORUM OF A MUNICIPAL COUNCIL DULY AUTHORIZED TO ACT IS IN EXISTENCE. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: Section 1. Section thirteen of Act Numbered Eighty-two, the Municipal Code, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof two additional paragraphs marked (d) and (e), as follows: "(d) In case such a number of vacancies in the membership of a municipal council shall at any time exist that there is no quorum available, by reason of death, resignation, removal, or discovered and declared disqualifications of members before declared elected but ousted from office by reason of ineligibility, the provincial board shall, in writing, declare that no quorum of the municipal council exists, and shall order a special election to fill the vacancies then existing, and shall certify their finding and order to the municipal secretary, who shall enter the same on the records of the council. The new election shall be held in accordance with the provisions of this chapter governing municipal elections." "(e) The provincial board shall have authority at any time to declare that a municipal president, vice-president, or councilor is not eligible to the office which he is holding, and that the position is therefore vacant, whenever it shall authentically ascertain such to be the fact, notwithstanding any approval of the election of such official. In case of a vacancy thus declared the same shall be filled in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of section thirty-nine of this Act, unless the contingency contemplated in paragraph (d) of this section exists and there is no quorum in existence, in which case a new election shall be ordered as provided in paragraph (d)." 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.1aшphi1 Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, August 7, 1906. The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation