Anti-Jaywalking Ordice Metro Manila

Section 6 of Republic Act No. 7924 is cited as the authority for the Council to enact traffic-regulation measures, including regulation of road users.
Section 3 provides that the ordinance is supplemental to existing Anti-Jaywalking ordinances of cities and municipalities in Metropolitan Manila.
Section 3 states that the ordinance shall not be construed as an amendment to existing Anti-Jaywalking ordinances within Metropolitan Manila.

The Council identifies jaywalking as a factor that contributes to traffic congestion in Metropolitan Manila.
The Council states that the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) seeks to improve traffic flow and agrees, in session duly assembled, to enact an Anti-Jaywalking ordinance.
The ordinance is framed as part of an institutional system to regulate road users in metropolitan Manila under the Council’s traffic-management mandate.

Section 1 defines jaywalking as any of the following acts.
Jaywalking includes crossing the street, thoroughfare or highway outside the marked cross-walk or pedestrian crossing, or underneath a pedestrian overpass, and when there is no such marking, crossing except at the corner of intersection, and doing so as nearly as possible at the right angle perpendicular to the intersection.
Jaywalking includes crossing even within the marked cross-walk or pedestrian crossing without conforming to the hand signal of the policeman or traffic enforcer assigned at the intersection, or contrary to the signal by other device for regulating traffic.
Jaywalking includes walking outside the sidewalk of a street, thoroughfare or highway so as to inconvenience, obstruct, hinder, or prevent free passage of vehicles.

Section 2 declares that jaywalking as defined in Section 1 is unlawful.
Section 2 applies jaywalking prohibition to all cities and municipalities of Metropolitan Manila.

Section 2 makes it unlawful for any person in Metropolitan Manila to commit jaywalking under the three-part definition in Section 1.
Section 1(a) prohibits improper crossing locations relative to marked cross-walks, pedestrian crossings, pedestrian overpasses, and—when markings are absent—crossing location at corners of intersections and right-angle crossing.
Section 1(b) prohibits crossing within marked cross-walks or pedestrian crossings when not conforming to prescribed hand signals or when crossing contrary to signals from traffic-regulating devices.
Section 1(c) prohibits walking outside sidewalks in a manner that inconveniences, obstructs, hinders, or prevents free passage of vehicles.

Section 4 provides that a violation of the ordinance is penalized by a fine of PHP 100.00.
Section 4 provides that the penalty also includes and/or community service.
Section 4 sets the community service duration as one day or less, at the discretion of the court.

Section 5 provides that the ordinance takes effect fifteen (15) days after publication.
Section 5 requires publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in Metro Manila.
Section 5 fixes the start of effectivity based on the publication and the 15-day waiting period after that publication.