REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4548 - AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN BY FIXING THE COMPENSATION OF THE CITY PUBLIC SERVICE OFFICER AND HIS ASSISTANT.

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

SECTION 1. Section ninety-three of Republic Act Numbered Thirty-eight hundred and fifty-seven, otherwise known as the Revised Charter of the City of Cebu, is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 93. City Public Service Officer .—There shall be a City Public Service Officer with a salary of seven thousand eight hundred pesos per annum who shall have charge of the Department of Public Services. The city public service officer shall have general supervision and control over the sanitary building and plumbing inspection service; care, custody and cleaning of all public buildings, including markets, crematories, slaughterhouses and buildings rented for city purposes, public toilets, collection and disposal of garbage, refuse, contents of toilets and cesspools, and all other offensive and dangerous substances within the city. He shall have authority to charge, at rates to be fixed by the City Council with the approval of the Mayor, fees for public services and supplies furnished by his department to private parties. He shall have authority to declare that any lot or ground within the City of Cebu belonging to any person or corporation or to the National Government, or any branch or political subdivision thereof, is so low, excavated, or walled, diked or dammed as to admit or cause the formation on the surface thereof of stagnant or foul water, or that it is a nuisance or a menace to public health, unless filled in or its sanitary condition otherwise improved, and shall communicate the same to the Mayor. He shall execute and enforce all laws, ordinances, and regulations relating to public services, and shall recommend to the City Council the passage of ordinances as he may deem necessary for the better and more adequate extension of public services. He shall cause to be prosecuted all violations of laws, ordinances or regulations relating to public services. The city public service officer shall have an assistant with a salary of seven thousand two hundred pesos per annum and such other personnel to assist him in his duties as may be provided for from time to time by appropriation ordinances."

SEC. 2. The city public service officer and his assistant, whose appointments have already been approved by the authorities concerned prior to the approval of this Act, shall automatically be entitled to the benefit of this Act Without further need of appointment.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 19, 1965.