[ Act No. 2448, January 20, 1915 ]
AN ACT AMENDING SUBSECTION (G) OF SECTION FORTY AND SUBSECTION (E) OF SECTION FORTY-THREE OF ACT NUMBERED EIGHTY-TWO AS AMENDED BY SECTION SIX OF ACT NUMBERED SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE, BY AUTHORIZING MUNICIPAL COUNCILS TO MAKE AND COLLECT CHARGES FOR WATER SUPPLIED BY THE MUNICIPALITY TO ITS INHABITANTS.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:
Section 1. Subsection (g) of section forty of Act Numbered Eighty-two is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(g) To construct and maintain waterworks for the w purpose of supplying the inhabitants of the town with water, to control the use of said water and of water courses within the town, and to fix and collect rents or taxes therefor: Provided, That the powers hereby granted to the municipalities are made extensive to existing waterwork systems.(awÞhi("
Section 2. Subsection (e) of section forty-three of said Act Numbered Eighty-two, as amended by section six of Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and ninety-one, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"(e) Rents and profits from all property belonging to the municipality, water rents or taxes, tolls from ferries, municipal stables, markets, slaughter-houses, public bath houses, pounds, and cemeteries belonging to the municipality."
Section 3. This Act shall take effect upon its passage.
Enacted, January 20, 1915.
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