REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4499 - AN ACT TO AMEND THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF SECTION FOURTEEN OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SIX HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF GINGOOG.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The first paragraph of Section fourteen of the Charter of the City of Gingoog is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 14. Method of transacting business by the Board—Veto, authentication and publication of ordinances. — Unless the Office of the President orders otherwise, the Board shall hold three ordinary sessions for the transaction of business during each week on days which it shall fix by resolution, and such extraordinary sessions, not exceeding thirty during any one year, as may be called by the Mayor. It shall sit with open doors, unless otherwise ordered by an affirmative vote of four members. It shall keep a record of its proceedings and determine its rules of procedure not herein set forth. Four members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. But a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may compel the immediate attendance of any member absent without good cause by issuing to the police of the city an order for his arrest and production at the session under such penalties as shall have been previously prescribed by ordinance. Four affirmative votes shall be necessary for the passage of any ordinance, or of any resolution or motion directing the payment of money or creating liability, but any other measure shall prevail upon the majority votes of the members present at any meeting duly called and held. The ayes and nays shall be taken and recorded upon the passage of all ordinances, upon all resolutions or motions directing the payment of money or creating liability, and, at the request of any member, upon any other resolution or motion. Each approved ordinance, resolution or motion shall be sealed with the seal of the Board, signed by the presiding officer and the secretary of the Board and recorded in a book kept for that purpose, and shall, on the day following its passage, be posted by the secretary at the main entrance of the City Hall and at least two other public places, and shall take effect and be in force on and after the tenth day following its passage unless otherwise stated in said ordinance, resolution or motion or vetoed by the Mayor as hereinafter provided. A vetoed ordinance, if repassed, shall take effect ten days after the veto is overridden by the required votes unless otherwise stated in the ordinance or again disapproved by the Mayor within said time." SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 19, 1965.