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Practice question: Officers; Qualifications, Election, Term, and Compensation

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

Officers approve compensation through a facially proper resolution but refuse to preserve or expose the meeting minutes, participant list and ballots to an authorized statutory inspection. They claim substantive approval eliminates record scrutiny. Which is correct?
  1. The compensation-approval records remain subject to the specified inspection
  2. Approval permanently immunizes the records
  3. Only officers may decide whether the statute applies
  4. Inspection automatically proves wrongdoing and is forbidden
  5. A resolution eliminates all statutory safeguards

Legal references

  • Labor Code Article250[241] current membership safeguards, read with RA9481: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442a_1974.html Paragraphs(c),(f),(k).
  • RA9481 Sections3,5,7, current cancellation/reporting rules: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2007/ra_9481_2007.html

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