ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE

PHILIPPINE LOCAL GOVERNMENT

UNITS
There are four units of local government in the
Philippines as stated in Article X,
section 1 of the 1987 Constitution: the barangay, city,
municipality and province.

BARANGAY

The barangay is the basic unit of

government. It is made up of at least two
thousand
(2000) inhabitants certified by
Philippine Statistics
Auhority

MUNICIPALITY
A municipality may
be created if it has an average
annual income, as certified by
the
provincial treasurer, of at least
two
million five hundred thousand
pesos
(P2,500,000.00) for the last two
(2)
consecutive years based on the
1991
constant prices; a population of
at least twenty-five thousand
(25,000)
inhabitants as certified by the
National Statistics Office; and a
contiguous
territory of at least fifty (50)
square kilometers as certified by
the Lands
Management Bureau: (The Local
Government Code of the
Philippines Section
441)

CITY.
A municipality or a cluster of
Barangays may be converted into a
component city if it has an average
annual income, as certified by the
Department of Finance, of at least Twenty
million pesos (Php20,000,000.00) for the
last two (2) consecutive years based on
1991 constant prices, and if it has either of
the following requisites: (i) a contiguous
territory of at least one hundred (100) square kilometers,
as certified by the Lands
Management Bureau; or, (ii) a population of not less
than one hundred fifty
thousand(150,000 (The Local Government Code of the
Philippines section 450).