REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5780 - AN ACT AMENDING SECTION EIGHTY-SEVEN OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE, KNOWN AS THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF OZAMIZ, BY MAKING THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER OF THE CITY HEALTH OFFICE CONCURRENTLY DEPUTY CIVIL REGISTRAR.

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

SECTION 1. Section eighty-seven of Republic Act Numbered Three hundred twenty-one otherwise known as the Charter of the City of Ozamiz is hereby amended by adding thereto another paragraph to read as follows:

"SEC. 87. The City Health Officer - His salary, powers and duties. -There shall be in the City of Ozamiz a city health officer. He shall have a salary not exceeding three thousand pesos per annum . The city health officer shall have the following general powers and duties:

"(a) He shall have general supervision over the health and sanitary conditions of the city.

"(b) He shall execute and enforce all laws, ordinances and regulations relating to the public health.

"(c) He shall recommend to the municipal board the passage of such ordinance as he may deem necessary for the preservation of the public health.

"(d) He shall cause to be prosecuted all violations of sanitary laws, ordinances, or regulations.

"(e) He shall make necessary inspections and may be aided therein by such members of the police force of the city or the national police as shall be designated as a police officer and such sanitary inspector as may be authorized by law.

" (f) He shall keep a civil registrar for the city and record there all births, marriages, and deaths with their respective dates.

"(g) He shall perform such other duties, not repugnant to law or ordinance, with reference to the health and sanitation of the city as the Director of Health shall direct.

"The administrative officer of the city health office shall be concurrently deputy civil registrar with an additional compensation of one thousand four hundred forty pesos per annum." SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Enacted without Executive approval, June 21, 1969.