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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 nineteen hundred and sixteen of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-two hundred and fifty-seven, is further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 1916. District engineer in capacity of sanitary and waterworks engineer.-Within their respective districts, district engineers shall act as sanitary engineers, and shall consult with district health officers regarding sanitary improvements therein.

"District engineers shall give information to district health officers as to the existence of insanitary conditions and of any failure to comply with legal sanitary orders and regulations which may come to their knowledge.

"In their respective districts, district engineers shall operate and maintain all municipal and provincial waterworks in accordance with the general regulations jointly issued by the Chief of the Executive Bureau and the Director of Public Works, and superintendents of waterworks, inspectors, plumbers, pump engineers, and all other employees as may be necessary for the proper operation and maintenance of these systems shall be under his direct supervision. Employees of the systems owned or administered by the province shall be appointed by him with the advice and consent of the provincial board, and those of systems owned by municipalities shall be appointed by the president in accordance with section twenty-one hundred and ninety-nine, as amended, of the Administrative Code, upon recommendation of the district engineer.

"When a system furnishes water to two or more municipalities or is extended to supply two or more municipalities of the province, said system shall be administered by the province. When a system furnishes water to one municipality only said system shall be administered by the municipality: Provided, however, That all municipal waterworks already existing at the time of the passage of this Act which have been extended to other municipalities shall continue to be administered by the municipalities originally constructing said system.

"Upon designation of the Director of Public Works, a district engineer may be allowed additional compensation with the approval of the provincial board not to exceed sixty pesos per month to be paid from the income of the waterworks systems supervised by him for services rendered in his capacity as sanitary and waterworks engineer."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, December 3, 1932.