QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 1553)
It increased the number of municipalities in La Laguna from twenty (20) to twenty-one (21) by separating San Pedro Tunasan from Biñan, reconstituting San Pedro Tunasan as a municipality, and assigning to each municipality the territory it previously comprised.
The former municipality of San Pedro Tunasan was separated from the present municipality of Biñan; San Pedro Tunasan was reconstituted as a municipality.
Biñan would consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of Act No. 930.
San Pedro Tunasan would be reconstituted and would consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of Act No. 930.
It increased Laguna’s municipalities from 20 to 21.
At the time of the next regular municipal elections in the Province of La Laguna.
It required that elections follow the rules contained in Act No. 730, as amended by Act No. 928.
No. The officers elected would not take office, nor would the reconstituted municipality come into existence, until the first Monday in January following the elections.
It provided that the reconstituted municipality would not come into existence until the first Monday in January after the election.
It stated that the changes would not interfere with the number of officers to be elected or with the regular holding of municipal elections in municipalities then in operation.
It referenced the class of Section 4 of the Municipal Code (as phrased in the text), and stated that if the number of councilors elected must be prescribed, it would be as in Act No. 1433.
That existing municipalities would continue their municipal elections “in the regular manner” and the reorganization would not disrupt the electoral process or council composition rules already in effect.
After the elections, it would come into existence only on the first Monday in January following the elections; until then, it would not operate as a municipality and officers elected would not assume office.
The public good required the speedy enactment of the bill.
It cited Section 2 of “An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws,” passed September 26, 1900.
On its passage.