[ Act No. 1613, March 14, 1907 ]
AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHT, ENTITLED "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MUNICIPAL BOARDS OF HEALTH AND FIXING THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES."
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section one of Act Numbered Three hundred and ¦ eight is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words: "Provided.ℒαwρhi৷ That with the approval of the respective municipal councils and the approval of the Director of Health, the district health officer may organize any two or more neighboring municipalities into a municipal health district, and such municipalities composing a district may employ jointly a president of the municipal health district thus constituted who shall also act as president of the municipal board of health of each municipality comprised in the said municipal health district and shall receive such compensation as may be appropriated by the respective municipal councils and approved by the Director of Health and shall be reimbursed by the municipality for which travel is performed for traveling expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of his official duties, all other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding. Presidents of municipal health districts shall be subject to the same requirements of law as other presidents of municipal boards of health, except as to restriction of salary, and shall be appointed in the same manner."
Section 2. Section three of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting after the word "president" and before the words "The other members of the board shall serve without compensation" the seventh line, the words "but nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prevent a duly appointed president of a municipal health district from receiving such additional salary as may be appropriated for the position and approved by the Director of Health."
Section 3. Section five of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting after the word "members" and before the words "Subject to the supervision and control" in the fourth line, the words "Provided, That in municipalities which are a component part of a municipal health district, meetings shall be held at the call of the president."
Section 4. The public good requiring the speed v 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 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 14, 1907.
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