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Feb 27, 2008 local-government boundary-disputes statutory-construction municipal-law sangguniang-panlalawigan

Municipal Boundaries Law Prevails Over Inconsistent Interpretation

Supreme Court rules that a municipality's boundaries are fixed by its charter law, and only Congress may alter them.