PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2182 - AN ACT
APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF FIVE MILLION PESOS TO DEFRAY THE EXPENSES OF
THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT IN CONNECTION WITH, AND INCIDENTAL TO, THE
ELECTION OF ELECTIVE PROVINCIAL, CITY, MUNICIPAL AND MUNICIPAL DISTRICT
OFFICIALS AND OF THE EIGHT SENATORS TO BE HELD ON THE SECOND TUESDAY OF
NOVEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE |
Section 1.
There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury
not otherwise appropriated the sum of five million pesos to be spent
under the exclusive authority of the Commission on Elections, for
payment of the expenses which the National Government may incur in
connection with, and incidental to, the holding of the elections on the
second Tuesday of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, for all
elective provincial, city, municipal and municipal district officials
and for the eight senators who will succeed those whose terms of office
will expire on December thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine:
Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for expenditure
before July one, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine and shall continue to
be available after June thirty, nineteen hundred and sixty, exclusively
for this purpose: And provided, further, That the unexpended balance,
if any, may be used to pay prior years elections' obligations. Sec. 2. Any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, officers and employees of the Commission on Elections, or those assigned thereto, except the Chairman and Members of the Commission on Elections, when working overtime on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays or after twelve-thirty o'clock post meridian during half day sessions and after five o'clock post meridian on regular working days, when authorized by the Commission on Elections may be paid compensation from the appropriation authorized in this Act at rates to be fixed by the Commission on Elections which shall not exceed the rate of their regular monthly compensation. Such additional compensation shall not exceed, for any one month, the equivalent of the regular compensation nor shall it exceed, for any one fiscal year, fifty per centum of such regular compensation.
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval. |