[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 376, June 19, 1949 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED FIFTY-EIGHT, KNOWN AS THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CEBU, SO AS TO INCREASE THE SALARIES CERTAIN OFFICIALS AND TO CREATE A DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives we Philippines in Congress assembled:
Section 1. The first sentence of section twenty-four of Commonwealth Act Numbered Fifty-eight, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Sixty-seven, is further amended to read as follows:
"Section 24. The Bureau of Audits. — The Auditor General shall appoint an auditor for the city who shall rank as chief of a city department and shall receive a salary of four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum, payable from the funds of the city."
Section 2. The last sentence of section thirty-two of the same Act is amended to read as follows:
"The chief of police shall receive a salary of three thousand six hundred pesos per annum."
Section 3. The last sentence of section forty-eight of the same Act, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Sixty-seven, is further amended to read as follows:
"The chief of the fire department shall receive a salary of four thousand pesos per annum."
Section 4. The last paragraph of section forty-nine of the same Act, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Sixty-seven, is further amended to read as follows:
"The salary of the city treasurer shall be four thousand five hundred pesos per annum."
Section 5. A new article and a new section, to be known as Article VIII-A and section forty-nine-A, respectively, are inserted between Articles VIII and IX of the same Act, to read as follows:
ARTICLE VIII-A.—Health Department
"Section 49-A. The city health officer—His salary, powers and duties. — There shall be a city health officer who shall be under the Department of Health. He shall receive a salary of not exceeding four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum. The city health officer shall have the following general powers and duties:
"(a) He shall have general supervision over the health and sanitary conditions of the city.
"(b) He shall execute and enforce all laws, ordinance: and regulations relating to the public health.
"(c) He shall recommend to the Municipal Board the passage of such ordinance as he may deem necessary for the preservation of the public health.⌊aшΡhi⌊
"(d) He shall cause to be prosecuted all violations of sanitary laws, ordinances, or regulations.
"(e) He shall make sanitary inspections and may be aided therein by such members of the police force of the city or the National Police as shall be designated as a sanitary police by the chief of police or proper National Police Officer and such sanitary inspector as may be authorized by law.
"(f) He shall keep a civil register for the city and record there all births, marriages, and deaths with their respective dates.
"(g) He shall perform such other duties, not repugnant to law or ordinance, with reference to the health and sanitation of the city as the Director of Health shall direct.
"The city health officer shall have an assistant who shall receive a salary of three thousand six hundred pesos per annum."
Section 6. Section fifty of the same Act is amended by adding a new paragraph to read as follows:
"The salary of the city assessor shall be four thousand two hundred pesos per annum."
Section 7. The second paragraph of section fifty-nine of the same Act is amended to read as follows:
"The members of the board of tax appeals, except those serving ex-officio and the chairman, shall receive a compensation of ten pesos for each day on which they attend the sessions and serve as members of the board."
Section 8. Section twenty-eight of the same Act, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Two hundred forty-four, is repealed.
Section 9. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, June 14, 1949.
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