Practice question
A genuine boundary dispute involves a municipality on one side and a highly urbanized city on the other. The city asserts that its highly urbanized status lets it issue the only binding decision, without participation of the other party's sanggunian. What does section 118(d) require?
- The municipality must accept every city assertion.
- Joint referral to the respective sanggunians of the parties.
- Automatic nationalization of both units.
- Resolution by the city's private contractor alone.
- No settlement until one unit is abolished.
Legal references
- Republic Act No. 7160, sections 118–119, https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7160_1991.html
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