Practice question
A municipality seeks conversion to a component city. Officials stipulate that an applicable income route and other substantive criteria under amended section 450 are satisfied. They argue that this alone permits conversion without congressional legislation or voter ratification. Which assessment is correct?
- Financial qualification automatically enacts the cityhood law.
- All conversion requirements disappear once a certificate is signed.
- A barangay resolution may replace every step.
- Satisfying substantive criteria does not dispense with the legally required creation instrument and constitutional plebiscite.
- The proposed city may choose whether Article X applies.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article X, section 10, https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Republic Act No. 7160, sections 6–10, https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7160_1991.html
- Republic Act No. 11683, section 1 amending RA 7160 section 450, https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2022/ra_11683_2022.html
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