REPUBLIC ACT NO. 979 - AN
ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT
ENTITLED "AN ACT GRANTING MUNICIPAL OR CITY BOARDS AND COUNCILS THE
POWER TO REGULATE THE ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF
CERTAIN PLACES OF AMUSEMENT WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE TERRITORIAL
JURISDICTIONS" |
Section 1.
Section one of Republic Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-eight is
hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 1.
The municipal or city board or council of each chartered city and the
municipal council of each municipality and municipal district shall
have the power to regulate or prohibit by ordinance the establishment,
maintenance and operation of night clubs, cabarets, dancing schools,
pavilions, cockpits, bars, saloons, bowling alleys, billiard pools, and
other similar places of amusements within its territorial jurisdiction:
Provided however, That no such places of amusements mentioned herein
shall be established, maintained and/or operated within a radius or
five hundred lineal meters from any public buildings, schools,
hospitals and churches. And provided, further, That this Act shall not
apply to establishments operating by virtue of Commonwealth Act
Numbered Four hundred eighty- five nor to pre-war establishments that
owned, before the outbreak of the war on December seven, nineteen
hundred and forty-one, concrete building for the purpose and have
reconstructed such building and resumed operation before the approval
of this Act." Sec. 2. Any law, executive order or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved: May 21, 1954 |