REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1224 - AN
ACT AMENDING SECTION ONE OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED
THIRTY-EIGHT, AS AMENDED |
Section
1. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Nine hundred
thirty-eight, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Nine hundred
seventy-nine, is 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 amusement within its territorial jurisdiction:
Provided, however, That no such places of amusement mentioned herein
shall be established, maintained and/or operated within a radius of two
hundred lineal meters in the case of night clubs, cabarets, pavilions,
or other similar places, and fifty lineal meters in the case of dancing
schools, bars, saloons, billiard pools, bowling alleys, or other
similar places, except cockpits, the distance of which shall be left to
the discretion of the municipal or city board or council, from any
public building, schools, hospitals and churches: Provided, further,
That no municipal or city ordinance fixing distances at which such
places of amusement may be established or operated shall apply to those
already licensed and operating at the time of the enactment of such
municipal or city ordinance, nor will the subsequent opening of any
public building or other premises from which distances shall be
measured prejudice any place of amusement already then licensed and
operating, but any such place of amusement established within fifty
lineal meters from any school, hospital or church shall be so
constructed that the noise coming therefrom shall not disturb those in
the school, hospital or church, and, if such noise causes such
disturbance then such place of amusement shall not operate during
school hours when near a school, or at night when near a hospital, or
when there are religious services when near a church: Provided,
furthermore, That no minor shall be admitted to any bar, saloon,
cabaret, or night club employing hostesses: And provided, finally, That
this Act shall not apply to establishments operating by virtue of
Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred eighty-five nor to any
establishment already in operation when Republic Act Numbered Nine
hundred seventy-nine took effect. Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.cralaw Approved: May 17, 1955 |