Local Legislation

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1. Which body exercises municipal legislative power under the Local Government Code?
2. What quorum does Section 53 prescribe to transact sanggunian business?
3. What vote does Section 54 require to override the covered local chief executive veto?
4. A municipal mayor issues a letter declaring that it alone is an ordinance, with no sanggunian enactment and no other en…
5. A sanggunian overrides a covered veto using a vote that is two-thirds of those present but less than two-thirds of all …
6. A municipality adopts an ordinance directly prohibiting conduct that a valid national statute expressly authorizes in t…
7. At a session where a proper roll call establishes absence of quorum, the members present nevertheless enact an ordinary…
8. Distinguish the quorum required to conduct ordinary sanggunian business from the special vote to override a covered vet…
9. Why does an executive letter not automatically become an ordinance?
10. Explain the national-law limit on local legislative autonomy using Magtajas.
11. Under Section 54(b), what is the municipal mayor’s period to communicate a veto of a municipal ordinance?
12. What follows under Section 54(b) if the covered local chief executive fails to communicate a veto within the applicable…