QuestionsQuestions (BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 141)
To create the Municipality of Banisilan in the Province of North Cotabato, by separating specified barangays from the Municipality of Carmen.
Kalawaeg, Gastao, Paradise, Malinao, Camalig, Pinamulaan, Pantar, Busaon, Tinimbacan, Nalagap, Salama, and Banisilan.
Subject to approval of the majority of the votes cast in a plebiscite held in the affected areas.
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC).
Within one hundred twenty (120) days from the approval of the Act.
To local funds.
In the present site of Barangay Banisilan.
By specifying a point of origin and tracing the municipality’s limits using rivers, provincial boundary lines, imaginary straight lines to specific peaks/ranges, and junction points, ending at the point of origin.
A designated starting geographic reference point from which the boundary tracing begins and eventually returns to the same point to complete the perimeter.
The intersection of the Malitubog River and the Cotabato–Lanao del Sur provincial boundary.
Malitubog River, Maridagao River, Tumagak Creek, Kitubod Range/peak of Kitubod Range, and junctions/common boundaries involving provincial lines.
Boundary segments that are not defined by a natural feature; instead, they are drawn as direct lines between two specified points (e.g., peak of Kitubod Range to Malitubog River center).
They shall be appointed by the President.
They hold office at the pleasure of the President, or until their successors are elected in the next general elections and have qualified.
No. Creation is explicitly subject to approval by a majority of votes cast in the required plebiscite in the affected areas.
Section 5 provides that the Act shall take effect upon its approval; it was approved on February 8, 1982.
It refers to the area(s) covered by the barangays being separated from Carmen and constituted into Banisilan, as stated in Section 1.