I'm Giancarlo Enrico S. Pozon, a Wushu instructor, investor and Barrister... That's right, Barrister; I graduated from law school and took the Bar Exams, now I'm waiting for the results. I created this blog to make Philippine Law easy to understand for the average person. It's all about free legal advice. There are many law blogs. But the problem is that many of them are written for lawyers and law students. They use words that can't be understood by ordinary people.
Many lawyers, judges and law students consider themselves as superior to most human beings because of their knowledge of the law. It bothers me since the law is supposed to serve society. Since the law is meant to serve society as a whole, it is important that is must be understood by everybody.
This does not mean that we should all become lawyers. It means that although law is a highly specialized profession, the first duty of everybody in this profession is to make the law understandable to all; that's why all these articles are free legal advice.
Like I said, this blog is about law -but it's for the ordinary people, not the lawyers. It's for the ordinary folk so they will know what is good and bad for them, and that making them aware of the law will help us all improve society as a whole. This is free legal advice for everybody!
The municipality is a group of barangays.
It serves as a general purpose government for the delivery of basic, regular
and direct services and effective governance of the inhabitants of its
territory. It is created by law, not by ordinance., and subject to a plebiscite
held by the COMELEC in the LGU/s directly affected. Once the plebiscite is
held, the creation of the municipality takes effect within 120 days from the
holding of the plebiscite unless the law creating the municipality specified a
different date or time frame.
Requisites:
1.) Average annual income of at least Php
2.5 million (certified by the provincial treasurer) for at least 2 consecutive
years
2.) Minimum population of 25,000
inhabitants (certified by the NSO)
3.) Contiguous territory of at least 50
sq. km
The creation of a new municipality must
not reduce the territory and population of the original municipalities to below
the minimum requisites.
Contiguity of territory isn't necessary if
the municipalities consist of 2 or more islands. The territorial jurisdiction
of the municipality, like the barangay, must be properly identified.
The average annual income includes the
income accruing to the municipality's general fund, excluding special funds,
transfers and non-recurring income.
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