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[ Act No. 3451, December 01, 1928 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AS AMENDED BY ACT D NUMBERED THIRTY-ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN.
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-two hundred and ninety-six of the Administrative Code, as amended by section seven of Act Numbered Thirty-one hundred and fifteen, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, December 1, 1928.
SECTION 1. Section twenty-two hundred and ninety-six of the Administrative Code, as amended by section seven of Act Numbered Thirty-one hundred and fifteen, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"SEC 2296. Annual budget.—Upon receiving this statement, the council shall make a careful estimate of the probable income of the municipality for the year and upon this basis shall proceed to make, by way of appropriation, detailed allotments to the respective municipal requirements for the same. The appropriation thus made by the council shall constitute the budget, and immediately upon passage, it shall be submitted to the provincial treasurer for approval, accompanied by the statement of receipts and expenditures for the preceding year and the estimate made by the council for the current year. Prior to submission to the provincial treasurer, the allotment for school purposes shall receive the approval of the division superintendent of schools, whose duty it shall be to pass upon the same, either approving or disapproving it, not later than thirty days after receiving it.SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
"It shall be the duty of the provincial treasurer, upon receipt of the annual and supplemental municipal budgets, to pass upon the same, by expressly either approving or disapproving them, not later than sixty and thirty days, respectively, after receiving the same, returning said budgets, with the accompanying documents, to the municipal council, through the president, within the time limit mentioned.
"Changes in the estimates and allotments of the budget, as well as additions thereto, may in like manner be effected from time to time during the year by supplemental budgets. However, the allotments made for health work shall only be changed upon recommendation of the Director of Health."
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, December 1, 1928.