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[ Act No. 3562, November 26, 1929 ]
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF MANILA, FOR PURPOSES OF PROFIT, AND SUBJECT TO SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS AS MAY BE PRESCRIBED BY THE INSULAR COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, TO IMPOSE A LICENSE TAX UPON THE PRIVILEGE OF TAKING FISH IN CITY WATERS WITH NETS, TRAPS, OR OTHER FISHING TACKLE, OR UPON THE RIGHT TO CONDUCT A FISH-BREEDING GROUND WITHIN ANY DEFINITE PORTION OR AREA OF THE CITY WATERS.
SECTION 1. Grant of fishery.—The Municipal Board of the City of Manila shall have authority to impose a license tax upon the privilege of taking fish in any definite portion or area of the municipal waters of the city with nets, traps, or other fishing tackle, or conduct a fish-breeding ground, subject to such rules and regulations as the Insular Collector of Customs may have prescribed or may prescribe, with regard to the site, construction, operation, and maintenance of such fish-breeding grounds: Provided, That the license tax herein mentioned shall not confer an exclusive right of fishery: Provided, further, That nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to restrict, repeal, or curtail the authority and jurisdiction of the Bureau of Customs as conferred by section eleven hundred and forty-one of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, or any other act or acts pertaining thereto, or amendatory thereof.
"City waters," as herein used, includes not only streams, lakes, and tidal waters included within the city limits, not being the subject of private ownership, but also marine waters included between two lines drawn perpendicular to the general coast line from points where the boundary-lines of the city touch the sea at high tide, and a third line parallel with the general coast line and distant from it three marine leagues.
Where the City of Manila and other municipalities are so situated on opposite shores that there is less than six marine leagues of marine water between them, the third line shall be a line equally distant from the opposite shores of the respective municipalities.
SEC. 2. Any fish trap, net, fishing tackle, gear or utensil, or any fish-breeding ground constructed, situated, maintained or operated improperly or in violation of the customs rules and regulations, shall be subject to summary removal at the risk and expense of the owner, and the license issued therefor shall be automatically revoked and the owner or owners thereof punished by an administrative fine of not more than five hundred pesos.
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, November 26, 1929.