CLO upholds validity
of motorcab fees

The Dumaguete City Legal Office yesterday insisted on the validity of Ordinance No. 60 that upgrades the mayors permit fee and the franchise fee to P800 for motorcab for hire operators and drivers.

City legal officer Neil Ray Lagahit said the few complaining drivers have no legal basis to ask for a refund, except those who paid P400 for the mayors permit and P600 for the franchise fee early in January of last year. The refund for a total of P200 will be in the form of tax credit for less than 10 percent of the total tricycle population of Dumaguete.

He reiterated the city government's position that the controversial City Ordinance 88 is already dead, and that the amended Ordinance No. 60 is not dependent on any other ordinance. Unlike CO 88, which was junked by the Provincial Board last year, that it can stand even without the trust fund provision.

Ex-treasurer's
petition dismissed

The Court of Appeals 20th Division dismissed the petition for certiorari filed by former Bacong Municipal Treasurer Necito Zamora against OIC-Regional Director Concepcion Daplas of the Bureau of Local Government Finance and Provincial Treasurer Danilo Mendez recently.

The ten-page decision penned by Associate Justice Isaias Dicdican upheld the decision of Daplas relieving Zamora from his duties and functions as Municipal Treasurer of Bacong and detailing him at the Provincial Assessors Office.

The decision stated that Daplas did not exercise grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack of or excess of jurisdiction in issuing Regional Special Personnel orders. It added that there was no legal basis to hold that the respondent, Mendez, committed grave abuse of discretion in issuing office order for his transfer of office.

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