An Act Creating the Meat Inspection Board in the City of Manila, Amending for This Purpose Republic Act Numbered Four Hundred and Nine

REPUBLIC ACT No. 1842

An Act Creating the Meat Inspection Board in the City of Manila, Amending for This Purpose Republic Act Numbered Four Hundred and Nine

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. Republic Act Numbered Four hundred and nine, otherwise known as the Revised Charter of the City of Manila, is amended by inserting between Articles XIV and XV thereof, a new article, to be known as Article XIV-A, which shall read as follows:

"Article XIV-A — Meat Inspection Board

Section 2. The second paragraph of section fifty-two of the same Act is amended to read as follows:

Section 3. Paragraph (a), section seventy-nine of the same Act is amended to read as follows:

Section 4. Paragraph (a), section eighty of the same Act is amended to read as follows:

Section 5. Upon the organization of the Meat Inspection Board, the balances of appropriations, personnel, equipment, supplies and records of the Division of Veterinary Service, Division of Slaughterhouses and Stockyards, Meat Delivery Service shall be transferred to the Meat Inspection Board.

Section 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 22, 1957.

"Sec. 80-A. Composition. -There is hereby created a Meat Inspection Board which shall be composed of the city veterinarian, as chairman, and the superintendent of the abattoir and the chief veterinary meat inspector. The chairman shall receive a compensation of eight thousand four hundred pesos per annum, and each of the members shall receive six thousand pesos per annum.

"Sec. 80-B. Duties and powers of the Board. -The Meat Inspection Board shall:

"The City Treasurer shall exercise the functions of municipal collector of taxes, shall collect all taxes and assessments due the city, and all licenses authorized by law or ordinances, and all rents due for lands, markets, and other property owned by the city; shall administer markets and shall receive and receipt for all costs, fees, fines and forfeitures imposed by the municipal court, from the clerks thereof, and the fees collected by the sheriff or his deputies, or by the justice of the peace."

"(a) He shall have general supervision and control over the health and sanitary conditions of the city, including the cleaning of crematories, cemeteries, and markets."

"(a) He shall have general supervision and control over the sanitary building and plumbing inspection service; care, custody and cleaning of all public buildings including markets and buildings rented for city purposes; public toilets; collection and disposal of garbage, refuse, contents of toilets and cesspools, and all other offensive and dangerous substances within the city."