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H. No. 5036 / 65 OG No. 4, 785 (January 27, 1969)

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4827, June 18, 1966 ]

AN ACT FURTHER AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS HE CHARTER OF PASAY CITY.



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress  assembled:

SECTION 1. The first paragraph of Section seventy-six of Republic Act Numbered One hundred eighty-three, otherwise known as the Charter of Pasay City, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
“SEC. 76. Regular, auxiliary and acting judges of city courts—There shall be a city court of four branches for Pasay City, for which there shall be appointed four city judges and two auxiliary city judges."
SEC. 2. The first paragraph of Section seventy-seven of the same Act, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 77. Clerk and employees of the city court.— There shall be a clerk of the city court who shall be ap­pointed by the Mayor in accordance with Civil Service Laws, rules and regulations: Provided, however, That the Incumbent clerk of court shall continue in office without of reappointment. He shall receive compensation eleven thousand four hundred pesos per annum. He shall keep the seal of the court and affix it to all orders, judgments, certificates, records and other documents issued in the court. He shall  keep  a docket   of the trials in court, in which he shall record in a summary manner names of the parties and the various proceedings in civil cases, and in criminal cases, the name of defendant the charge against him, the names of the witnesses, the date of the arrest, the appearance of the defendant, together with the lines and costs adjudged or collected in accordance with the judgment. He shall have the power to Administer oath."
SEC. 3. Whenever the words "municipal judge" and "municipal court" appear in Republic Act Numbered One hundred eighty-three, as amended, otherwise known as the Charter of Pasay City, the same shall read as "city judge” and "city courts", respectively.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 18, 1966. 

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