[ Act No. 3297, December 02, 1926 ]

AN ACT TO FIX THE SALARIES, OF DISTRICT HEALTH OFFICERS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Commissioned officers of the Philippine Health Service assigned as district health officers to any province constituting a health district in  accordance with the provisions of section nine hundred  and seventy-eight of the Administrative Code,  shall receive compensation in accordance with the following scale:

(a) For first-class provinces, four thousand five hundred pesos per annum.

(b)  For second-class province.?, including the Mountain Province, Zamboanga, Palawan,  Davao Lanao, Cotabato, and Sulu, four thousand pesos per annum.

(c) For third-class provinces, including Agusan, Bukidnon, and Nueva Vizcaya, three thousand  six hundred pesos per annum.

(d)  For fourth-class provinces, three thousand pesos per annum.

(e)  For fifth- and sixth-class provinces, including Batanes, two thousand four hundred pesos per annum:  Provided, That no  district health officer shall receive  a salary exceeding the salary assigned by law to his rank more  than twelve hundred  pesos  per  annum.

SEC. 2.  One-half of the salary of the district health officers shall be paid out of the general appropriation for the Philippine Health  Service and  the  other  half shall  be  paid out of the health fund of the province concerned: Provided, That in provinces where there  is no health  fund, said half shall be  paid out of the Insular aid to the province.

SEC. 3. No district health officer shall engage in private practice except in the cases and  under  the  conditions provided for in Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and thirty-five; but in this case the district  health  officer shall receive only the salary belonging to his rank.

SEC.  4. District health officers shall be entitled to the number of days  of vacation leave and accrued  leave  due them by virtue of their rank in the Health Service, and their salary "while on  vacation  leave  or accrued leave shall  be computed in  accordance with the  salary  of their rank or grade, regardless of what other salary they may have received or be receiving in connection with their assignment as district health officer in accordance with the provisions of this  Act.

SEC.  5. All acts  or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are  hereby repealed.

SEC.  6. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved,  December 2,  1926.