The business permits of trisikad operators in Bacolod City will be released today after they have complied with all the requirements, Bacolod Permits and Licensing head Ardis Jaculina said yesterday.

Jaculina said some business permits were withheld earlier by her office pending interpretation of City Ordinance 270 Series of 2000, which devolved the regulation of the trisikads to the barangays. Withheld were the permits of Brgys. 17, 40 and 36, which were not included in the routes specified in C.O. 270.

Jaculina said the barangays with trisikad route covered under C.O. 270 are Bata, Banago, Mandalagan, Alijis, Tangub, Cabug, Pahanocoy, Sum-ag, Punta-Taytay, Felisa, Handumanan, Mansilingan, Vista Alegre, Villamonte, Taculing, Singcang, Estefania, Granada. Alangilan, Montevista, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 34, 35, and 41.

She said that, based on C.O. 270, the city issues the business permits while the barangays issues the license to operate.

Jaculina said business permits can only be issued upon compliance with steps 1 to 3 in Article 2 of C.O. 270, which provides that trisikad operators pay their annual registration fee. She said they must be Filipino citizens, while every business permit must have a maximum of five units. Before they can be issued license or certificate to operate, trisikad operators must have a business permit, she added.

Jaculina said that, according to one barangay official, their council has passed a barangay ordinance and sent it to the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod. But after several years no action was taken so they believe it is deemed approved according to the law, she said.

Jaculina said "that since we have no direct information if the barangays have, indeed, passed ordinances, we held the applications pending management intervention or SP legislation."

Meanwhile, Secretary to the Mayor Roger Balo said C.O. 270 has been superseded by the ordinances of the individual barangays as far as the operations of the trisikad are concerned. He said the individual barangays should pass an ordinance for the regulation of the trisikad.

Balo said he requested Jaculina yesterday to process and release the business permits of the trisikad operators provided they have complied with the three requirements under C.O. 270.*CGS

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