[ Act No. 3724, November 21, 1930 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE AND TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, BY EXTENDING THE POLICE JURISDICTION OF THE CITY OF BAGUIO OVER ALL TERRITORY WITHIN THE DRAINAGE AREA OF ITS WATER SUPPLY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:SECTION 1. Section twenty-five hundred and forty-three charter of the city of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2543. Jurisdiction of city for police purposes.—The jurisdiction of the city for police purposes only shall extend over the barrios of San Pascual, Taloy, Tabaan, Twin Peaks, Saitan, Cuenca, San Luis, Dagupan, Maoasoas, Ambangunan, Pugo, and Nagalisan, and all settlements situated on Antamok and Bituan Creeks; and for the purpose of protecting and insuring the purity and quantity of water supply of the city, such police jurisdiction shall also extend over all territory within the drainage area of such water supply, and within one hundred meters of any reservoir, conduit, canal, aqueduct, pumping station or watershed, used in connection with the city water service. Within the aforementioned barrios, settlements and territory the justice of the peace court of the city shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the courts of justices of the peace of the municipalities within which the said barrios, settlements and territory are situated, to try crimes and misdemeanors committed therein. The court first taking jurisdiction of such an offense shall thereafter retain exclusive jurisdiction thereof; but all fines, forfeitures, fees, and costs, imposed by reason of offenses committed within said barrios, settlements, and territory shall accrue, not to the treasury of the city but to the treasury of the municipality in which the barrio, settlement, or territory in which the offense committed is located."

SEC. 2. Subsection (o) of section twenty-five hundred and fifty-three of the same Code is likewise amended to read as follows:

"(o) To maintain water works for the purposes of supplying water to the inhabitants of the city, to purify the source of supply, and regulate the control and use of the water and to fix and collect rents therefor; to regulate the construction, repair, and use of hydrants, pumps, cisterns, and reservoirs, and to prevent the waste of water; and for the purpose of protecting and insuring the purity and quantity of the water supply of the city, to extend its ordinances over all territories within the drainage area of such water supply, and within one hundred meters of any reservoir, conduit, canal, aqueduct, pumping station or watershed used in connection with the water service.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved, November 21, 1930.

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