AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 450 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7160, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF 1991, AS AMENDED BY REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9009, BY PROVIDING FOR THE REQUISITES FOR THE CONVERSION OF A MUNICIPALITY INTO A COMPONENT CITY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year:
2022
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
April 10, 2022
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This Act amends Section 450 of the Local Government Code to provide the requisites for converting a municipality into a component city. It establishes income and population criteria for such conversions, ensuring that the original municipality's land area, population, and income are not diminished.Full Text
Eighteenth Congress
Third Regular Session
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of July, two thousand twenty one.
[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11683, April 10, 2022 ]
AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 450 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7160, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF 1991, AS AMENDED BY REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9009, BY PROVIDING FOR THE REQUISITES FOR THE CONVERSION OF A MUNICIPALITY INTO A COMPONENT CITY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
Section 1. Section 450 of the Republic Act No. 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991, as amended by Republic Act No. 9009, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
Section 2. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The Department of the Interior and Local Government, the Department of Finance, and the Department's of Budget and Management shall promulgate and issue the implementing rules and regulations within ninety (90) days from the effectivity of this Act.
Section 3. Separability Clause. - If any provision of this Act shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining part or provisions not otherwise affected shall remain in force.
Section 4. Repealing Clause. - Any law, decree, ordinance, or administrative circulars not consistent with any provision of this Act is hereby amended, repealed or modified accordingly.
Section 5. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its complete publication in the Official Gazette (15) days after its complete publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.
Approved,
This Act was passed by the Senate of the Philippines as Senate Bill No. 255 on January 17, 2022 and adopted by the House of Representatives as an amendment to House Bill No. 8207 on January 24, 2022.
Approved: Lapsed into law on APR 10 2022 without the signature of the President, in accordance with Article VI, Section 27(1) of the Constitution.
RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines
"SEC. 450. Requisites for Creation. - (a) A municipality or a cluster of barangays may be converted into a component city if it has a locally generated average annual income, as certified by the Department of Finance, of at least One hundred million pesos (P100,000,000.00) for the last two (2) consecutive years based on 2000 constant prices, and if it has either of the following requisites:
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