REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6052 - AN
ACT AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FOUR THOUSAND
FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE (RE: CITY OF PALAYAN)
Section 1. The first paragraph of Section two of Republic Act
Numbered Four thousand four hundred seventy-five is hereby amended to
read as follows:
"Sec. 2. Territory. — The District Engineer of the
Province of Nueva Ecija shall, within three months after the approval
of this Act, survey and, by proper metes and bounds, determine the
territory of the City of Palayan, indicating in the plan, among others,
avenues, streets, plazas, parks, and lots for public use. Upon the
completion of such survey, the Director of Public Works shall certify
the same to the President of the Philippines who shall, by executive
order, define the boundaries and limits of the territory of the City.n
addition to the foregoing territory of Palayan City, the following
barrios: Ganaderia and Maligaya, Municipality of Laur, Province of
Nueva Ecija and Fort Magsaysay Cantonment, Municipality of Sta. Rosa,
Nueva Ecija shall also be included within the territory of Palayan
City."
Sec. 2. Section five of the same Act is amended to
read as follows:
"Sec. 5. Chief Officials of City Government. — The
chief officials of the government of the City are the City Mayor, City
Vice-Mayor, six members of the City Council, City Engineer, City Health
Officer, Judge of the City Court, Chief of Police, Secretary of the
City Council and Secretary to the City Mayor.
"Upon approval of this Act and before the local elections in nineteen
hundred seventy-one the city mayor, vice-mayor and the six councilors
shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines with the consent
of the Commission on Appointments.n the local elections in nineteen
hundred seventy-one, the said officials shall be elected by the
qualified voters of the city. The district engineer of the Second
Congressional District of Nueva Ecija, the provincial treasurer,
provincial auditor, provincial assessor, the provincial fiscal and the
district health officer of the Province of Nueva Ecija, shall be
ex-officio city engineer, city treasurer, city auditor, city assessor,
city fiscal and city health officer of the City, respectively, until
they shall have been respectively replaced by regular appointees
pursuant to the provisions of Section s eighteen, nineteen, twenty-two,
twenty-three, and twenty-five of this Act and other existing laws.
"The City Council shall appoint its secretary, and the City Mayor shall
likewise appoint his secretary."
Sec. 3. Section thirty-two of the same Act is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 32. Moneys from Sale of Lands and Allotment of
Internal Revenue and Other Taxes. — All sums of money received from the
sale of public lands within the City, which sale shall be made by the
Bureau of Lands in accordance with the provisions of the Public Land
Law, shall accrue to and be deposited in the treasury thereof. Of the
internal revenue accruing to the National Treasury under Chapter II,
Title XII of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-six, and
other taxes collected by the National Government and allotted to the
various provinces, as well as the national aid for schools, the City of
Palayan shall receive a share equal to what it would receive if it were
a regularly organized province."
Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: August 4, 1969
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