QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 3320)
The text cites Republic Act No. 3320. Its purpose is to create the Municipality of Ramon in the Province of Isabela by separating specified barrios from the existing municipalities of Santiago and San Mateo.
The barrios of Bugallon, Burgos, San Miguel, San Sebastian, Raniag, and Pagrang-ayan were separated from the Municipality of Santiago to form the Municipality of Ramon.
The barrios of Oscariz, Nagbacalan, and Bantug Petinez were separated from the Municipality of San Mateo to form the Municipality of Ramon.
They are constituted into a new and separate municipality to be known as the Municipality of Ramon, in the Province of Isabela.
The seat of government is at the present site of the barrio of Burgos.
It legally removes those barrios from their former municipalities (Santiago and San Mateo) and places them into a newly created separate municipality (Ramon).
The Municipality of Santiago and the Municipality of San Mateo are the existing municipalities from which barrios are separated.
It shall take effect upon the election of the new municipal officials in the general elections for local officials in November of nineteen hundred sixty-three.
Based on Section 2, it does not take effect immediately. It takes effect upon the election of the new municipal officials in November 1963 in the general elections for local officials.
The election of the new municipal officials in the general elections for local officials in November of 1963.
It indicates the Act was enacted without Executive approval—i.e., it became law despite not receiving the required Executive approval.
The Act is labeled as Republic Act No. 3320 and is dated June 18, 1961, with the note that it was enacted without Executive approval on that date.
Specifying the seat of government determines where the municipal government will be based administratively. Legally, it provides certainty on the location of governance for the new municipality.
It signals that Ramon is distinct from the municipalities of Santiago and San Mateo after the effective date, with its own municipal government to be established through the specified elections.
Section 2, which states that the Act takes effect upon the election of the new municipal officials in the November 1963 general elections for local officials.