Title
Creation of Banaybanay Municipality
Law
Republic Act No. 5747
Decision Date
Jun 21, 1969
Republic Act No. 5747 created the Municipality of Banaybanay in the Province of Davao, separating several barrios from the Municipality of Lupon and establishing a new municipality with its own government officials.

Questions (Republic Act No. 5747)

Mogbongcogon, Caganganan, Banaybanay, Cabangcalan, Calubihan, San Vicente, Piso Proper, Panikian, Mahayag, Causwagan, Maputi, and Pintatagan.

They were separated from the Municipality of Lupon in the Province of Davao.

The new municipality is called the Municipality of Banaybanay, and it remains within the Province of Davao.

In the present site of Barrio Banaybanay.

Upon the election and qualification of the first mayor, vice-mayor, and councilors in the next general elections for local officials.

Municipal officials of the mother municipality charged with election duties, in accordance with the Revised Election Code, shall hold office until the first officials of Banaybanay have been elected and qualified.

The first locally elected officials of the newly created Municipality of Banaybanay: mayor, vice-mayor, and members of the municipal council.

It sets the timeline for when the first set of municipal officers can be elected and qualify, which in turn determines when the municipality acquires corporate existence.

The municipality’s corporate existence is tied to the election and qualification of the first officials in the next general elections; prior to that, the mother municipality’s election officials perform election duties.

Election duties are handled by the municipal officials of the mother municipality until the first officials of Banaybanay are elected and qualified.

The Act shall take effect upon its approval.

No. It states: “Enacted without Executive approval, June 21, 1969.”

To determine the administrative and governmental center of the new local government unit.

The Revised Election Code.


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