QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 4975)
RA 4975 creates the Municipality of Maco in the Province of Davao by separating specified barrios and sitios from the Municipality of Mabini.
They were separated from the Municipality of Mabini, Province of Davao, and constituted into a new independent municipality known as Maco.
Examples include Maco, Bukana, Lupon, Hijo, San Juan, Langgam, San Roque, Anisingan, and many others listed in Section 1.
It shall be located in the present site of Barrio Maco.
It provides a detailed metes and bounds description starting from a specific corner at the mouth of Hijo River, following various rivers/lines/shoreline segments, and ending at the point of beginning.
The boundary description starts at Cor. 1, a point at the mouth of Hijo River.
It includes following the shoreline in a general northerly and westerly direction to the point of beginning (Cor. 1) along the Gulf of Davao.
Upon the election and qualification of the first mayor, vice-mayor, and councilors in the next general elections for local officials.
The municipal officials of the mother municipality charged with election duties under the Revised Election Code hold office until the first officials of Maco are elected and qualified.
The first mayor, vice-mayor, and councilors.
For transitional purposes, the election duties remain with the mother municipality’s officials in accordance with the Revised Election Code until the new officials of Maco take office.
It shall take effect upon its approval.
No. The text states it was enacted without Executive approval, June 17, 1967.
It indicates a statutory creation of a new local government unit with its own municipal identity separate from the mother municipality.