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Practice question: Fundamental Principles

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A city imposes a local charge and announces that its proceeds will be disposed of solely by a private club for members' personal holidays. No specific Code provision authorizes a different beneficiary or disposition, and no genuine public purpose is present. Which combined Section 130 principles are implicated?
  1. Only the spelling of the ordinance title
  2. Only the collection date
  3. Public purpose and the rule that Code revenues inure to and are subject to disposition by the levying LGU unless specifically otherwise provided
  4. Only the mayor's preferred investment strategy
  5. No principles because a charge can never be regulated

Legal references

  • RA7160, Local Government Code, Sections129–133 and186–188: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7160_1991.html
  • 1987 Constitution, ArticleX Section5: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html

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