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Practice question: General Welfare Clause

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

An LGU supports practical flood-sensor training that develops self-reliant local technical skills. The project satisfies all applicable authority, funding and procurement requirements. Is the absence of a separate sentence naming this exact technology necessarily fatal?
  1. No; Section16 expressly supports appropriate and self-reliant scientific and technological capabilities
  2. Yes; every device must be named individually in the Code
  3. Yes; science can never relate to general welfare
  4. Yes; only foreign training can be supported
  5. Yes; technology is excluded from the statute

Legal references

  • RA7160 Local Government Code: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7160_1991.html Sections5(c),15 and16.

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