Title
Creation of San Miguel Municipality, Bohol
Law
Executive Order No. 423
Decision Date
Mar 14, 1961
Executive Order No. 423 creates the municipality of San Miguel in Bohol, Philippines, by incorporating several barrios from the municipalities of Trinidad and Ubay, with specific boundaries and requirements for official existence.

Questions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 423)

The barrios were taken from the municipalities of Trinidad and Ubay.

Cambangay Sur, Cambangay Norte, Bayongan, Bonbong, Bugang, Cagawasan, Capayas, Camanaga, Garcia, Mahayag, and Tomoc.

Corazon and Magsaysay.

At the barrio of Cambangay Sur.

It provides that Trinidad and Ubay retain their respective territories minus the portions included in San Miguel, as delimited in the order.

It delimits the exact territorial extent of the Municipality of San Miguel based on a survey description and a sketch plan filed in the office of the private land surveyor.

Upon the appointment and qualification of the mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of the councilors, and upon the Secretary of Finance’s certification that the municipality is financially capable of meeting legal obligations and services.

Certification that it is financially capable of implementing the Minimum Wage Law and providing statutory obligations and ordinary essential services of a regular municipality.

That Trinidad and Ubay can still maintain their municipal governments credibly, meet statutory and contractual obligations, and provide essential municipal services after losing territory to San Miguel.

They are required as a condition precedent; the municipality begins to exist only after the mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of councilors are appointed and qualified.

The order states the boundaries are described based on a sketch plan prepared by the named private land surveyor, filed in the office, and it includes a scale reference.

It reflects the formal promulgation date and presidential enactment of the creation of the municipality under the cited legal authority.

To ensure an authoritative, verifiable technical delineation of territory for administrative and legal purposes, reducing disputes over coverage.

The Minimum Wage Law.


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