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[ Act No. 3763, November 26, 1930 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO ESTABLISH PERIODS OF PRESCRIPTION FOR VIOLATIONS PENALIZED BY SPECIAL ACTS AND MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES AND TO PROVIDE WHEN PRESCRIPTION SHALL BEGIN TO RUN," AS AMENDED BY ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE, FIXING TWO MONTHS AS THE TERM FOR THE PRESCRIPTION OF VIOLATIONS OF THE REGULATIONS AND CONDITIONS OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.

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 one of Act Numbered Thirty-three hundred and twenty-six, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-five hundred and eighty-five, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"SECTION 1. Violations penalized by special acts shall, unless otherwise provided in such acts, prescribe in accordance with the following rules: (a) after a year for offences punished only by a fine or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or both; (b) after four years for those punished by imprisonment for more than one month, but less than two years; (c) after eight years for those punished by imprisonment for two years or more, but less than six years; and (d) after twelve years for any other offence punished by imprisonment for six years or more, except the crime of treason, which shall prescribe after twenty years: Provided, however, That all offences against any law or part of law administered by the Bureau of Internal Revenue shall prescribe after five years. Violations penalized by municipal ordinances shall prescribe after two months.

"Violations of the regulations or conditions of certificates of public convenience issued by the Public Service Commission, shall prescribe after two months."
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 26, 1930.
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