QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 326)
A “bar” is any place whose principal business is the sale of alcoholic beverages or liquors to be used or consumed within its premises. If it allows music or dancing within its premises, it is treated as a night club, cabaret, dancing school, or dance hall, as the case may be, and is subject to Executive Order No. 319.
No bar may be established within 200 lineal meters from specified places such as a city hall or municipal building, provincial or national capitol, public plaza, public school, church, hospital, athletic stadium, public park, or any institution of learning or charity.
Bars must be well-lighted at all times with no dark corners and must be maintained in good sanitary condition. No private rooms or separate compartments are allowed except those assigned for lavatories, dressing rooms for ladies, and the kitchen.
Excepting Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, bars may operate only from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight every day except Saturdays and days preceding official holidays and town fiestas. On those, bars may be open until 2:00 a.m. of the following day.
Yes. If the bar is duly licensed to operate as a regular restaurant/café/refreshment parlor or operated in connection with one, it may remain open before or after the stated hours, but only to serve meals, refreshments, or nonintoxicating drinks.
Any store, place, or establishment where alcoholic beverages or liquors of any kind are sold is considered a bar for purposes of the limitations on days and hours of operation prescribed in the Order.
Minors under 18 years of age, intoxicated persons, and persons carrying deadly weapons or firearms of any description are not allowed in any bar, except government officials performing their public functions.
Yes. Persons under 18 may be admitted when they are in private parties and accompanied by their parents or guardians. However, minors under 15 years of age are never allowed admission.
They must be at least 21 years old and must first obtain a written certificate from the District or City Health Officer that they are free from contagious or infectious disease. With written consent of parents or guardians, women aged 18 but below 21 may be employed.
She must not be allowed to continue working as such upon discovery by the District or City Health Officer that she is suffering from any contagious or infectious disease, or after conviction for disorderly, immodest, or immoral conduct, or for violation of this Order or Executive Order No. 319. The required medical certificate must be obtained once every three months.
Yes. No professional hostess, waitress, dancer, or any other female employee may remain within the bar’s premises after its closing hours.
The Department of the Interior is charged with enforcement and supervision. The mayor may assign policemen upon public interest requirements or upon request of the operator/concessionaire to maintain peace and order and enforce related municipal or sanitary regulations.
In addition to the permit, the operator must obtain an operational license from the treasurer. License is issued upon payment of a fee of not less than 100 pesos annually or 25 pesos quarterly. Existing ordinances imposing higher fees remain until the President prescribes otherwise.
They may file a protest with the Secretary of the Interior, who may decide the case after proper investigation or cancel the permit and license.
An action of the city/provincial/municipal treasurer under the permit and license provisions may be appealed to the Secretary of the Interior, whose decision is final.
The Secretary must revoke upon satisfactory evidence that gambling or playing of any prohibited game has taken place within the premises of the bar.
If there is violation, the Secretary of the Interior withdraws the permit and revokes the license. This revocation forfeits all sums paid to the city or municipality concerned.