AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN AS AMENDED.
Year:
1949
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
June 17, 1949
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This act amends Section 2176 of the Revised Administrative Code of 1917, which prohibits municipal officials from having a pecuniary interest in municipal contracts or businesses. It allows certain exceptions for Vice-Mayors and councilors under specific conditions.Full Text
[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 383, June 17, 1949 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN AS AMENDED.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
Section 1. Section twenty-one hundred and seventy-six of the Revised Administrative Code of nineteen hundred and seventeen, as amended, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"Section 2176. Inhibition against holding of pecuniary in¬terest of municipal official, exceptions. — It shall be unlawful for a municipal officer to possess a pecuniary interest, either direct or indirect, in any municipal contract, contract work, or other municipal business, or to hold such rest in any cockpit or other game licensed by municipal authority, but the Vice-Mayor when not acting as or performing the duties of the Mayor, and the councilors when not attending sessions of the council, may be employed in which or provincial public works within the province in which they reside and may receive compensation therefrom in addition to the 'per diems' authorized by section twenty-one hundred and eighty-seven of this Code."
Section 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, June 17, 1949.
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