QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 2496)
RA 2496 creates the Municipality of Mabinay in the Province of Negros Oriental by separating certain sitios from the Municipality of Bais.
Baliw, Landas, Langao, Abis, Himocdongon, Bato, Luyang Namanjrka, Tadlong, Lum-bangan, Panyabonan, Tubod, Inapoy, Barras and Banban of Barrio Bagtic, Municipality of Bais, Negros Oriental.
It shall be in the Mabinay proposed townsite in Sitio Tadlong, or in any other sitio therein which the municipal council may propose by a two-thirds vote.
If the council fails or omits to propose a different site within one year after organization, the permanent seat shall be the Mabinay proposed townsite.
That proposed site shall be the seat of the municipal government.
The President of the Philippines, with the consent of the Commission on Appointments.
Not earlier than the first of January, nineteen hundred and sixty.
They shall hold office until their successors are elected in the next general elections for provincial and municipal officials, and they have been duly qualified.
The Act takes effect on January 1, 1960.
No executive approval is indicated; it states: “Enacted without executive approval-, June 21, 1959.”
It sets a supermajority requirement within the municipal council for deciding an alternative seat, ensuring the decision has broad local legislative support.
To require checks and balances for appointive local officials, ensuring presidential appointment is subject to Senate/Commission on Appointments consent.
Appointed officials serve only until the next general elections for provincial and municipal officials, after which elected successors take over upon qualification.
The specific sitios listed are of Barrio Bagtic, Municipality of Bais, Province of Negros Oriental.