QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 10358)
Republic Act No. 10358 is an Act declaring July 7 of every year a special working public holiday in the City of Carcar, Province of Cebu, known as the “City of Carcar Charter Day.”
July 7 of every year.
To the City of Carcar, Province of Cebu.
To commemorate the City of Carcar’s founding day.
“City of Carcar Charter Day.”
It declares a special working public holiday.
It indicates a holiday that is still workable (i.e., government operations and labor relations continue according to existing rules on special working holidays), but it remains a legal holiday for observance in the covered locality.
Persons and entities within the City of Carcar, Cebu, since the law declares the holiday specifically for that city.
The Act shall take effect upon its approval.
January 9, 2013.
It originated in the House of Representatives.
The House passed it on November 13, 2012, while the Senate passed it on October 15, 2012.
The signatures indicate legislative approval: the Senate President (Juan Ponce Enrile), the House Speaker (Feliciano Belmonte Jr.), and the President of the Philippines (Benigno S. Aquino III), plus attestation by secretaries of the Senate and House.
It is limited in scope because it declares the holiday only for the City of Carcar, Province of Cebu.
Local commemorations can be given statutory recognition by Congress through local special working holidays tied to a locality’s founding or charter events.
Republic Act No. 10358, especially Section 1 (declaring July 7 as the special working public holiday in Carcar City).