QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 2377)
To amend Subsection (j) of Section 40 of Act No. 82 (Municipal Code) so that municipalities may fix or change the dates of their local fiestas, subject to specified conditions, and to regulate cockfighting and related activities.
The council must give preference to a date that is memorable and worthy of commemoration due to an important event in the municipality, province, Philippine Archipelago, or Philippine/US history.
A resolution changing the local fiesta date must be passed by two-thirds of all the members of the municipal council.
The resolution changing the date shall not be passed before the expiration of five (5) years after the fixing of the date.
A local fiesta shall not be held oftener than once in each year.
Precisely on the date designated in the municipal resolution.
Typhoons, inundations, earthquakes, epidemics, or other public calamities that make it impossible to hold the fiesta on the fixed date.
It may be held on another date in the same year by resolution of the council.
Yes. It permits cockfighting in licensed cockpits on legal holidays and for a period not to exceed three (3) days during the celebration of the local fiesta.
The municipality may regulate and permit or prohibit cockfighting and the keeping or training of fighting cocks.
It authorizes the municipality to close cockpits, while still permitting cockfighting in licensed cockpits within the stated conditions.
No. It specifically does not permit any card games or games of chance of any kind on the premises of the cockpits.
It repeals Act No. 1909 and Act No. 2054.
Upon its passage.
It limits municipal discretion and prevents frequent or arbitrary date changes by imposing a supermajority requirement and a minimum interval of five years from the last fixing of the date.
No. The text requires that holding the fiesta on another date due to weighty reasons be done “by resolution of the council.”