REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2245 - AN ACT
AMENDING SECTION SEVENTY-SEVEN AND EIGHTY-EIGHT OF REPUBLIC ACT
NUMBERED SIXTEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CHARTER OF
THE CITY OF SILAY, SO AS TO INCREASE THE SALARY OF THE CLERK OF THE
MUNICIPAL COURT AND TO GIVE ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION TO THE DIVISION
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL |
Section 1.
Sections seventy-seven and eighty-eight of Republic Act Numbered
Sixteen hundred twenty-one, otherwise known as the Charter of the City
of Silay, are amended to read as follows: "Sec. 77.
Clerk and employees of the Municipal Court. – There shall be a clerk of
the municipal court who shall be appointed by the municipal judge in
accordance with Civil Service Law, rules and regulations, and who shall
receive a compensation, to be fixed by ordinance approved by the
Secretary of Justice, at not exceeding two thousand four hundred pesos
per annum. He shall keep the seal of the court and affix it to all
orders, judgments, certificates, records, and the other documents
issued by the court. He shall keep a docket of the trials in the court,
in which he shall record in a summary manner the names of the parties
and the various proceedings in civil cases; and criminal cases, the
name of the defendant, the charge against him, the names of the
witnesses, the date of the arrest, the appearance of the defendant,
together with the fines and costs adjudged or collected in accordance
with the judgment. He shall have the power to administer oath. The
clerk of the municipal court shall at the same time be sheriff to the
city and shall as such have the same powers and duties conferred by
existing law to provincial sheriffs. The Municipal Board may provide
for such number of clerks in the office of the clerk of the municipal
court as the needs of the service may demand. "Sec. 88.
The Bureau of Public Schools. – The Director of the Bureau of Public
Schools shall exercise the same jurisdiction and power in the city as
elsewhere in the Philippines and the division superintendent of schools
for the Province of Negros Occidental shall have all the powers and
duties in respect to the schools of the city as are vested in division
superintendent in respect to schools of their divisions. The said
superintendent shall receive an additional compensation of one thousand
two hundred pesos per annum which shall be paid by the city government." Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.cralaw Approved: June 18, 1959. |