EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 217

: Executive Order No. 217 dated December 9, 1965, is an order amending Executive Order No. 193, which created the Municipality of Limasawa in the Province of Southern Leyte.
: It concerns the amendment of the penultimate paragraph of Executive Order No. 193 relating to the creation of the Municipality of Limasawa in Southern Leyte.
: The amendment specifies that the Municipality of Limasawa shall begin to exist only upon the appointment and qualification of the Mayor, Vice-Mayor, and a majority of the councilors.
: The municipality officially comes into legal existence once the Mayor, Vice-Mayor, and a majority of the councilors have been appointed and have qualified.
: The Mayor, Vice-Mayor, and a majority of the municipal councilors.
: The procedural requirement is the appointment and qualification of the Mayor, Vice-Mayor, and majority of the councilors before the municipality can legally exist.
: It was signed in the City of Manila.
: Qualification generally means that the appointed officials have complied with all legal requirements to hold office, such as taking the oath of office and fulfilling any other prescribed conditions.
: Froilan R. Montalban, the Acting Assistant Executive Secretary, signed it by the President's authority.