d.

Necrological Service – Semi-Formal (polo, polo shirt)

A special attire shall be used for important sessions as maybe called for by the Local Chief Executive or
the majority of the Sangguniang Bayan. Such description of the attire shall be stated in the written
notice to each of the member at least twenty-four (24) hours before such session.

A member who attends a session not in proper dress code, shall be required to be in the proper dress
code. In case of non- observance, a fine of Php. 1,000.00 shall be imposed.

RULE VII-ORDER OF BUSINESS

Section 1. Order of Business. the order of business in the Sanggunian shall be as follows:

I. Call to order;

II. Invocation;

III. Singing of the National Anthem;

IV. Roll Call of Members;

V. Reading and approval of the minutes of the previous meeting;

VI. Privilege Hour

VII. Question Hour

VIII. Reading and reference to corresponding committees of proposed ordinances, resolutions,

petitions, memorials, motions, and other communications;

IX. Reports of regular and special committees;

X. Calendar of Business (Agenda)

A. Unfinished Business

B. Business of the Day

(1) Measures on Second Reading

(2) Measures on Third Reading

XI. Announcement

XII. Adjournment

Section 2. Preparation of the Calendar of Business. With the assistance of the Chairperson of
the Committee on Rules, the Secretary shall prepare the calendar of business of every session/meeting
and shall furnish a copy thereof to every member of the Sangguanian not less than three (3) days before
every regular meeting.

Section 3. Contents of the Calendar of Business. The calendar of business shall contain a brief
description of each kind of business to be taken up during the meeting, indicating the sources, in the
case of communications, endorsements, petitions, memorial, and memoranda; the name of the author
or authors, in the case of motions, resolutions, and ordinances; and the committees to which they have
been referred.

Section 4. Rendering of Committee of Reports. Committee reports shall be rendered, first, by

the standing committees in the order they are listed in the rules of the Sangunian, then by special
committees, in the order of their creation. The report, consisting of the findings and recommendations
of the majority of the committees, shall be made by its chairman, or if he dissents with the majority
opinion, by any committee member concurring therein and duly designated for the purpose.

Section 5. Consideration of Unfinished Business. The consideration of unfinished business in

which the Sangunian maybe be engaged in at the time of adjournment shall be resumed after the
committee reports have been rendered and so on at each succeeding meeting until such unfinished
business is disposed of.

Section 6. The Business for the Day. The business for the day shall consist of ordinances,
resolution, and other legislative matters set on the calendar for the consideration of the Sanggunian.
They shall be taken up in the order in which they are set in the calendar.

Section. 7 Legislative Matters Scheduled for Final Reading. Ordinances and other legislative
matters scheduled for final reading shall be called in the order set forth in the calendar of business and
shall considered in the manner prescribed hereafter. Resolution are approved in the same manner
prescribe for Ordinances, except that they need not go through another session day for third reading,
unless decided otherwise by a majority of the Sanggunian members.

Section 8. Suspension of the Rules and Urgent Matter. On a motion to suspend the rules, item of
business may be taken away from their fixed order, and any urgent matter, not included in the order of
business, may be considered forthwith by the Sanggunian. An urgent matter is one which certified by
the Mayor as involving great public interest the delay of which shall prejudice essential government
activities.

RULE VIII – URGENT REFERRALS

All urgent matters which need immediate action by the Sangguniang Bayan shall be tackled on
the other matters on in the process of the suspension of the rules. If no action was taken thereon, it
shall be referred and endorsed to appropriate committees by the Committee on Rules for appropriate
action and shall be reported by the committee concerned and tackled during the next schedule session.

RULE IX- PROCEDURE FOR ORDINANCES, RESOLUTION, AND OTHER LEGISLATIVE MATTERS
 Section 1. Ordinances and Resolution Distinguished. Legislative action of a general and
permanent character shall be enacted in the form of ordinances, while those which are ministerial or
administrative in nature and of temporary character shall be passed in the form of resolution.

Section 2. Draft Ordinance and Municipal Ordinance. Every ordinance presented for
consideration shall be denominated as a “Draft Ordinance” and upon approval, it shall be called
“Municipal Ordinance”.

Section. 3 Essential Parts of Ordinances and Resolutions. Ordinances and resolutions shall be
proposed in writing and shall contain an assigned number (resolution), a title or caption, an enacting or
ordaining clause, and the date of its proposed effectivity (ordinance). In addition, every proposed
ordinance shall be accompanied by a brief explanatory note containing the justification for its approval.
It shall be signed by the author or authors and submitted to the Secretary who shall report the same to
the Sanggunian at its next session.

Section. 4. Urgent Measures. Any legislative matter duly certified by the Municipal Mayor as
urgent, whether or not it is included in the calendar of Business, may be presented and considered by
the Sanggunian in the same session without need of suspending the Rules.

Section. 5. The Three Reading Principle. Before an ordinance or a resolution may be finally
enacted, it shall undergo three readings, as follows:

a. First reading which shall consist of the reading the Secretary of the title of the proposed
ordinance or resolution and the name of its author or authors, after which it shall be referred by the
Presiding Officer to the appropriate committee or committees without debate.

b. Second reading, at which proposed ordinance or resolution, after having been sponsored on
the floor by the committee chairman or by any committee member designated for the purpose, shall be
read in full in the manner recommended by the committee or committees, whereupon the measure
shall be subject, first, to debate, and then to amendments and all proper parliamentary motion.

c. Third reading, at which no debate or amendment shall be allowed, but the title of the
proposed ordinance shall be read and the question upon its passage shall be immediately vote upon
without debate.

d. A resolution is deemed final if approved in second reading, unless majority of the members
present decide to present it for the third reading (please see Section 7 of Rule III).

Section. 6. Erroneous Referral of a Proposed Ordinance or Resolution. In case of an erroneous

reference of a measure to a committee, the same may be corrected at a subsequent meeting after the
reading of the minutes containing the referral, by a majority vote of the Sanggunian on motion of the
committee on the rules or the committee claiming jurisdiction over it or the committee to which it was
erroneously referred.

Section. 7. Consolidated or Substituted Ordinance and Resolution. In a proposed ordinance or

resolution resulting from consolidation or substitution made by a committee, there shall be named as
authors every member who has signed as such any of the proposed ordinances or resolutions
consolidated or substituted for, in the order of the names shown therein and according to the date of
their filling.
 Section 8. Measures on Second Reading. No ordinance or resolution shall be considered on
second reading in any regular meeting that has not been reported out by the proper committee except
those prepared and introduced by the committees having proper jurisdiction over the subjects thereof
and those certified as urgent by the Mayor.

Section 9. Ordinance and Resolution Passed on Second Reading. The secretary shall prepare
copies of the proposed ordinance or resolution in the form it was passed on second reading, and shall
distribute to each member of the Sangunian a copy thereof at least three days before it is voted upon
for final approval, except if the measure has been certified by the Mayor as urgent in which case it may
be submitted for final voting immediately after the second reading.

Section 10. Vetoed Ordinance and Resolution. If the Mayor votes an ordinance or resolution or
any part thereof, he shall signify his disapproval thereof, he shall signify his disapproval thereof in
writing, and the Sanggunian shall record the objections of the Mayor at large on the ordinance or
resolution or the item or items vetoed. After reconsideration, the Sanggunian shall proceed to vote on
the ordinance or resolution or the vetoed item or items thereof, and the vote of each Sanggunian
member shall be recorded on the minutes. If the ordinance or resolution or the vetoed items thereof are
passed by the vote of two-thirds (2/3) of all members of the Sanggunian, such ordinance or resolution
shall be valid.

Section. 11. Review by the Sanggunian Panlalawigan. Within 72 hours or three (3) days after
approval, the Sanggunian Bayan Secretary shall forward to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan for review,
copies of approved ordinances.

Within thirty (30) days after receipt of copies of such ordinances and resolutions, the
Sangguniang Panlalawigan shall examine the documents to transmit them to the Provincial Legal Officer
or if there none, to the Legal Prosecutor for prompt examination. The Provincial Legal Officer or
Provincial Prosecutor shall, within a period of ten (10) days, from receipt of the documents, inform the
Sangguniang Panlalawigan in writing of his comments or recommendations, which may be considered by
the Sangguniang Panlalawigan in making its decision.

If the Sangguniang Panlalawigan finds that such an ordinance or resolution is beyond the power
conferred upon the Sangguniang Bayan concern, it shall declare such ordinance or resolution invalid in
whole or in part. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan shall enter its action in the Minutes and shall advise the
corresponding municipal authorities of the action it has taken.

Section. 12. Enforcement of Disapproved Ordinance or Resolution. Any attempt to enforce any
ordinance or any resolution approving the Municipal Development Plan and Municipal Investment Plan,
after disapproval thereof shall be sufficient ground for the suspension or dismissal of the official or
employee concerned.

Section. 13. Effectivity of Ordinance and Resolution. Unless otherwise stated in the ordinance or
the resolution, approving the Municipal Development Plan and Municipal Investment Program, the
same shall take effect ten (10) days from the date a copy thereof is posted in bulletin board at the
entrance of the Municipal Hall, and in at least two (2) other conspicuous places in the municipality.

Section. 14. Posting Ordinance. Every ordinance shall be posted by the Secretary at the main
entrance of the Municipal Hall on the day after its approval. He shall certify to the fact of posting and
shall reflect his certificate in the minutes of the Sanggunian, although failure to post an ordinance shall
not validate the same. It shall also be the duty of the Secretary to translate or cause to be translated
into the dialect used by the majority of the people of the municipality and to have them posted, as
translated into such dialect, at the main entrance of the municipal hall and in other frequented public
places in the municipality and its barangays.

Section. 15. Keeping and Filing Proposed and Approved Measures. Proposed and approved
ordinances and resolutions of the Sanggunian shall be kept in separate files and numbered consecutively
throughout the calendar year.

RULE X – MOTIONS AND THEIR REFERENCE

Section 1. Every motion made to the Sangguniang Bayan, pursued or withdrawn shall be entered
on the records of the Sangguniang Bayan with the name of the Member making it.

Section 2. When a motion has been made, the presiding officer shall state it to the Body of, if it
is in writing shall cause it to be read aloud by the Secretary to the Sangguniang before being debated,
and it shall then be considered as having been brought to the attention of the Body, but it may be
withdrawn at any time before its amendment.

Section 3. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be entertained, to declared a

recess, to lay on the table, to refer, to amend, or postpone indefinitely; which motion shall be presented
in the foregoing order; and no motion to postpone to a certain day, or to postpone indefinitely, having
failed of passage, shall again be allowed on the same question.

Section 4. When a motion or proposition is under consideration, a motion to amend that

amendment by a way of a substitute, but the latter shall not be voted until the original motion or
proposition is perfected, and any of said amendments may be withdrawn before a decision is held
thereon.

Section 5. No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall
be submitted under motion of amendment.

Section 6. Amendment or additions to an ordinance shall be offered in writing, and the secretary
to the Sangguniang shall furnish copies thereof to the members.

Section 7. On the call of any Member, before the question is put up, a question should be
divided if it includes propositions so distinct in substance.

Section 8. Amendments to a title of an ordinance or resolution shall be only in the second

reading.

Section 9. When voting on a motion not debatable, no other remarks will be entertained by the
Presiding Officer when a member casts his vote.
 RULE XI- QUESTIONS AND PRIVILEGES

Section 1. Question of privilege are:

First – Those affecting the rights of the Sangguniang Bayan collectively, its safety, dignity and the
integrity of the proceedings; and

Second – Those affecting the rights, reputation and conduct of the members, individually, in
their representative capacity only.

Section 2. Any question of privilege shall have precedence over all other questions, except
motion to adjourn.