(a)To comply with and enforce and give the necessary orders for the faithful enforcement and execution of laws and ordinances in effect within the jurisdiction the city;

(b) To safeguard all the lands, buildings, records, moneys, credits, and other property and rights of the city, and, subject to the provisions of this Charter, have control over
all its property;    

(c)To see that all taxes and other revenues of the city are collected and applied in accordance with appropriations to the payment of the municipal expenses;

(d) To cause to be instituted judicial proceedings to recover property and funds of the city whenever found, to cause to be defended all suits against the city, and otherwise to protect the interests of the city;

(e)To see that the executive officers and employees of the city properly discharge their respective duties.The mayor, may, in the interest of the service and subject to the
provisions of existing law, transfer officers and employees not appointed by the President of the Philippines from one section, division, or service to another section, division, or service within the same department without changing the
compensation they receive;

(f)To examine and inspect the books, records and papers of all officers, agents, and employees of the city over whom he has executive supervision and control whenever occasion arises and at least once a year.For this purpose he shall be provided by the city council with such clerical or other assistance as may be necessary;

(g)To give such information and recommend such measures to the City Council as he shall deem advantageous to the city;

(h) To attend, if he wishes to do so, either in person or by a duly authorized representative, the session of the City Council, and participate in its discussions, but not to vote;

(i) To represent the city in all its business matters, and n on its behalf all its bonds, contracts, and obligations made in accordance with law or ordinance;

(j) To submit to the City Council at least two months ore the beginning of the ensuing fiscal year a budget of receipts and expenditures of the city;

(k) To receive, hear, and decide as he may deem proper,the petitions, complaints, and claims of the residents concerning all classes of municipal matters of an administrate or executive character;

(l) To grant or refuse municipal licenses or permits of all classes and to revoke the same for violation of the conditions upon which they were granted, or if acts by law or city ordinance are being committed under protection of such licenses or in the premises in which the business for which the same has been granted is carried on, or for any other good reason of general interest;

(m)To exempt, with the concurrence of the superintendent of schools, deserving poor pupils from the payment of school fees or of any part thereof;

(n)To take such emergency measures as may be necessary to avoid fires and floods, and to mitigate the effects storms and other public calamities; and

(o)To perform such other duties and exercise such other powers as may be prescribed by law or ordinance.

(a) To provide for the levy and collection of taxes general and specific purposes in accordance with law, including specifically the power to levy real property tax not
to exceed one and one-half per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the said maximum rate of one and one per centum shall not be imposed during the first five years of the effectivity of this Act;

(b)    To fix the number and salaries of officials employees of the city not otherwise provided for in this Act;

(c) To fix the schedule of fees and charges for all services rendered bythe city or any of its departments, branches or officials;

(d) To provide for the erection and maintenance or the rental, in case of need, of the necessary buildings for the use of the city.

(e) To provide for the establishment and maintenance public schools;and,except as otherwise provided by law, to fix, with the approval of the Director of Public
tools and/or Vocational Education, reasonable matriculation and/or tuition fees for intermediate and secondary instruction therein and to acquire sites for schoolhouses for primary and intermediate classes through purchases or conditional or absolute donation;

(f) To establish and maintain or aid in the establishment and maintenance of vocational schools and institutions of higher learning conducted by the National Government or any of its subdivisions, or agencies; and, with the approval of the Director of Vocational Education, to fix reasonable tuition fees for instruction in the vocational schools and in the institutions of higher learning supported by the city;

(g) To provide Tor and maintain an efficient police force for the maintenance of law and order in the city, and make all necessary police ordinances, with a view to the
confinement and reformation of vagrants and juvenile delinquents, disorderly persons, mendicants, prostitutes, and persons convicted for violating any of the ordinances of the city;

(h) To maintain the city court established by law h shall have jurisdiction of all criminal cases under finances of the city, and such additional jurisdictions may be herein or hereafter conferred;

(i) To provide for and maintain a city fire department and to establish and maintain engine houses, fire engines, trucks, hooks, and ladders, and other equipment for
prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to regulate the management and use of the same;

(j) To establish fire zones, determine the kind of buildings or structures that may be erected within their regulate the manner of constructing and repairing the and fix the fees for permits for the construction or demolition of buildings and other structures;

(k) To regulate the use of lights in stables, shops and other buildings and places, and to regulate and restrict the issuance of permits for the building of bonfires rockets, and other pyrotechnic display, and to fix the fees for such permits;

(1) To make regulations to protect the public from con­flagrations and to prevent and mitigate the effects of mine, floods, storms and other public calamities, and pro­vide relief for victims thereof;

(m)To tax, regulate and fix the amount of the license fees for the following; hawkers, peddlers, hucksters, not including hucksters or peddlers who sell only native vegetables, fruits, or foods, personally carried by the hucksters or peddlers, barbers, collecting agencies, manicurists, hair­dressers, tattooers, jugglers, acrobats, wrestlers and boxers; shooting galleries, slot machines, merry-go-rounds ant other similar riding devices, and the keeping, preparation, and sale of meat, poultry, fish, game, butter, cheese, lard, vegetables, bread, and other provisions; and to impose it municipal occupation tax, not to exceed fifty pesos per annum, on lawyers, physicians, land surveyors, architects, certified public accountants, agricultural, geodetics, industrial management, civil, electrical, chemical,mechanical or mining engineers, electronics engineers, veterinarians, dentists, opticians and optometrists, insurance agents sub-agents, business agents and business consultants, professional appraisers or connoisseurs of tobacco, or other domestic or foreign products, music teachers, piano tuners, nurses, midwives, auctioneers, plumbers, electrical contractors, building contractors, masseurs, physical culture instructors, chiropodists, money changers, real estate, commercial and other brokers, salesmen, detailmen, hostesses, and persons engaged in the transportation of passengers or freight by hire, including common carriers and transportation contractors: Provided, That persons exercising their professions or occupation only as salaried employees and not as independent practitioners shall be exempt from the municipal occupation tax herein prescribed;

(n) To tax, fix the license fee and regulate the business of hotels, restaurants, refreshment places, cafes, lodging houses, brewers,distillers,rectifiers, laundries,dye-and cleaning establishments, beauty parlors, physical or beauty culture, and fashion schools, clubs, livery garages, public warehouses,pawnshops,theaters,cinematographs, and the letting or subletting of lands and buildings, whether used for commercial, industrial or residential purposes; and further to fix the location of, and to lax, the license fee on, and regulate the business of, livery stables, boarding stables, embalmers, public billiard tables, public pool tables, bowling alleys, dance halls, public dancing halls, cabarets, night clubs, and day clubs, circuses and other similar parades, public vehicles, public ferries, cockpits, dealers in second hand materials or merchandise, junk dealers, theatrical performances, boxing contests, public exhibitions, blacksmith shops, foundries, steam boilers, lumberyards, shipyards, the storage and sale of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal, oil, gasoline, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerin, petroleum,or any of the products hereof, and of all other highly combustible or explosive materials, and other establishments likely to endanger, the public safety or give rise to conflagrations or explosions and, subject to the provisions of law, tanneries, fats and oil, factories, tallow chandleries, bone factories, soap factories; Provided, That no license shall be granted to any theater or cinematography unless the applicant for said license agrees to exhibit pictures made in the Philippines extent of five per centum of their annual exhibitions: And provided, further, That any violation of this condition cause the revocation of said license;

(o) To tax and fix the license fees on printers o binders or both, tailor shops, milliners, manufacturers of jewelry, embroideries, sails or awnings or both, rope, paper, leather goods including shoes, slippers, sandals nesses and valises or bags, sporting goods, plastics and celluloid products, hardware including glassware cooking utensils, electrical goods, toilet articles, paints, 'dyes inks, textiles, shell lamps or lamp shades or both, statuettes or tombstones or both, sacks, furniture of all kinds, including rattan goods, wire, brass, beds or both, clothing, hats, eyeglasses, or optical goods or both, fertilizers or buttons.

Manufacturers above-mentioned shall not be subject t the payment of any municipal tax or license fees as retail dealers of their own products: Provided, That any manufacturing conducted solely by the immediate members of a family at their own home shall not be subject to any lax or license fee.

(p) To tax and fix the license fee on dealers in gen­eral merchandise, including importers and indentors, except those dealers who may be expressly subject to the payment of some other municipal tax under the provision.of this section.

Dealers in general merchandise shall be classified as: 1) wholesale dealers, and 2) retail dealers.For purposes of the tax on retail dealers, general merchandise shall be classified into four main classes, namely: 1) luxury articles 2) semi-luxury articles; 3) essential commodities; and miscellaneous articles.A separate license shall be prescribed for each class but where commodities of different classes are sold in the same establishment, it shall not compulsory for the owner to secure more than one lice if he pays the higher or highest rate of tax prescribed ordinance.Wholesale dealers shall pay the license tax such, as may be provided by ordinance.

For purposes of this section, the term "general merchandise" shall include poultry and livestock, agriculture products, fish and other allied products.

(q) To tax, fix the license fee on the sale, trading in or disposal of alcoholic or malt beverages, wines, and mixed or fermented liquors, including tuba, basi, tapuy, lambanog, offered for retail sale;

(r) To impose a tax on all products or commodities manufactured or produced in the city and removed therefrom
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(s) To impose a sales tax of not exceeding oneper centum of the gross value in money of all articles sold, bartered, exchanged or transferred within the city;

(t) To regulate the method of using steam engines and boilers, and all other motive powers other than marine, or belonging to the Government of the Philippines; to provide for the inspection thereof, and fix a reasonable fee for such inspection and to regulate and fix the fee for the licenses of the engineers engaged in operating the same;

(u) To provide for the prohibition and suppression of riots, affrays, disturbances, and disorderly assemblies; houses of ill fame and other disorderly houses, gaming houses, gambling and all fraudulent devices for the purpose of obtaining money or property; prostitution, vagrancy, intoxication, fighting, quarreling, and all disorderly conduct; and printing, circulation, exhibition, possession or sale of obscene pictures, books or publications thereof; and for the maintenance and preservation of peace and good morals;

(v) To prohibit, regulate and fix the license fees for e keeping of dogs, and to authorize their impounding and destruction when running at large contrary to ordinances, and to tax and regulate the keeping or training of fighting cocks;

(w) To establish and maintain municipal pounds; to regulate, restrain, and prohibit the running at large of domestic animals, and provide for the distraining, impounding sale of the same for the penalty incurred and the cost of the proceedings; and to impose penalties upon the owners of said animals for the violation of any ordinance
relation thereof;

(x)To prohibit,and provide for the punishment cruelty to animals;

(y)To require property owners by ordinance to construct or repair,at their expense, sidewalks along the street or streets adjacent to their lots in accordance the specifications of the city engineer as to quality and grade, and subject to his supervision and approval: Provided, That in case of failure or inability of the property owners to comply with the requirement within a specified period of time after demand, the city engineer shall cause the work to be done and the cost thereof, collect as a special assessment from such owners, who may choc to pay the same in full, or in ten equal installments which shall be due and payable to the City of General Santos in the same manner as the annual tax levied on real estate and shall be made subject to the same penalties foe delinquency, and enforceable by the same remedies, as such annual tax; and all said sums and amounts shall, from the day in which they are assessed, constitute liens on the property against which the same were assessed, and shall take precedence over any and all other liens which may exist upon such property excepting only such as may have been attached as a result of the nonpayment of said annual tax:

(z) To regulate the inspection, weighing and measur­ing of brick, lumber, coal and other articles or merchandise;

(aa)Subject to the provisions of existing law, to provide for the laying out, construction and improvement, and regulate the use of streets,avenues,alleys,sidewalk wharves, piers, parks, cemeteries, and other public place to provide for lighting, cleaning and sprinkling of streets and public places; to regulate, fix license fees for and prohibit the use of the same for processions, signs, signposts awning, awning posts, and the carrying or displaying of banners, placards,, advertisements, or handbills, or the flying of signs, flags or banners, whether along, across, over, or from buildings along the same; to prohibit the placing, throwing, depositing, or leaving of obstacles of any kind,
garbage, refuse, or other offensive matters liable to cause damage in the street and other public places, and to provide the collection and disposition thereof; to provide the inspection of, fix the license fees for, and regulate openings in the same for the laying of water, sewer and other pipes, building and repair of tunnels, sewers and drains, and all structures in and under the same, and erecting of poles and stringing of wires thereon; to provide for, and regulate crosswalks,curbs and gutters herein; to name streets without a name and provide for, and regulate the numbering of houses and lots fronting hereon, or in the interior of the blocks; to regulate traffic and sales upon the streets and other public places; to provide forthe abatement of nuisances in the same, and punish the authors or owners thereof; to provide for the construction and maintenance andregulate theuseof bridges, viaducts, and culverts; to prohibit and regulate ball playing, kite playing, hoop rolling, and other amusements which may annoy persons using the streets and public places, or frighten horses or other animals, or obstruct other vehicles; to regulate the speed of horse and other animal-driven vehicle within the limits of the city;

(bb) To provide for the construction and maintenance of, and regulate the navigation on, canals, and watercour­ses within the city, and provide for the cleansing and purification of the same; unless otherwise provided by law, o provide for the construction and maintenance, and relate the use of public landing places, wharves,piers, docks and levees, and those of private ownership; and to provide for, or regulate the drainage and filling of private premises when necessary in the enforcement of sanitary les and regulations issued in accordance with law. To undertake and carry out the reclamation of submerged land the sea adjoining the city limits at the expense of the city, the area thus reclaimed to belong exclusively to city, or to cause to be undertaken by private contractors such reclamation work on terms and conditions approved by the city council and the mayor;

(cc) Subject to the provisions of existing law, to fix the charges to be paid by all water craft landing using public wharves, docks, levees, or landing places owned, operated, managed or controlled by the city;

(dd)Any provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding, to provide for the maintenance of waterworks for the purpose of supplying water to the inhabitants the city, and for the purification of the source of water supply and the places through which the same passes to regulate the consumption and use of water; to fix subject to the provisions of the Public Service Law, and provide for the collection of rents therefor, and to regulate the construction, repair and use of hydrants, pumps, cis­terns and reservoirs;

(ee) To provide for the establishment, maintenance, and to regulate the use of public drains, sewers, latrines and cesspools;

(ff) Subject to existing rules and regulations issued in accordance with law, to provide for the establishment, maintenance, and to fix the fees for the use of, and regulate public stables, laundries and baths, and public markets, and prohibit the establishment or operation within the city limits of public markets by any person, entity, association, or corporation other than the city;

(gg)To establish or authorize the establishment of slaughterhouses, to provide for their veterinary or sanitary inspection, to regulate the use of the same, and to charge reasonable slaughter fees.No fees shall be charged f veterinary or sanitary inspection of meat from large cattle or other domestic animals slaughtered outside the city, when such inspection was had at the place where the animals were slaughtered;

(hh) To regulate, inspect and provide measures venting any discrimination or the exclusion of any race or races in or from any institution, establishments, or service open to the public within the city limits, or m sale and supply of gas or electricity, or in the telephone service to fix and regulate charges therefor where the same has not been fixed by national law, to regulate and provide for the inspection of all gas, electric and telephone conduits,mains, meters and other apparatus, and provide the condemnation, substitution or removal of the same when defective or dangerous;

(ii) To declare, prevent .and provide for the abatement of nuisances; to regulate the ringing of bells and the making of loud or unusual noises; to provide that owners, agents or tenants of buildings or premises keep and maintain the same in sanitary condition, and that, in case of failure to so within sixty days from the date a written notice is served, the city health officer shall cause the same to be kept in a sanitary condition, and the cost thereof to be assessed against the owner to the extent of not to exceed sixty per centum of the assessed value, which cost shall constitute a lien against the property; and to regulate and/ or prohibit, or fix the license fees for the use of property on or near public ways, grounds, or places, or elsewhere within the city, or display by electric signs or the erection or maintenance of billboards or structures of whatever materials erected, maintained, or used for the display of posters, signs or other pictorial or reading matter, except signs displayed at the place or places where the profession or business advertised thereby is in whole or in part conducted;

(jj) To provide for the enforcement of the rules and regulations issued by the Director of Health Services; and by ordinance to prescribe penalties for violation of such rules and regulations;

(kk) To extend its ordinances over all waters within the city, .and over any boat or other floating structures thereon, and for the purpose of protecting and insuring
the purity of the water supply of the city, over all territory within the drainage area of such water supply, and within five hundred meters of any reservoir, conduit, canal, aqueduct, or pumping station used in connection with the city water service;

(ll)To regulate any other business or occupation conducted within the city not specifically mentioned the preceding paragraphs, and to impose a license fee all persons engaged in the same or who enjoy privileges in the city;

(mm) To fix and regulate the size, speed, and operation of motor and other vehicles within the city; to regulate the lights used on such vehicles; to establish bus stops and terminals; and prohibit and regulate the entrance provincial public utility vehicles into the city, except those passing through the city;

(nn)To grant fishing and fishery privileges subject to the provisions of the Fisheries Act;

(oo) To fix the date of holding of a fiesta in the city not oftener than once a year and to alter, not oftener than once in three years, the date fixed for the celebration thereof;

(pp) To enact all ordinances it may deem necessary and proper for the sanitation and safety, the furtherance of the prosperity, and the promotion of the morality, peace, good order, comfort, convenience, and general welfare of the city .and its inhabitants, and such others as may be necessary to carry into effect and discharge the powers and duties conferred by this Charter; and to fix penalties for the violation of ordinances, which shall not exceed a two hundred pesos fine or six months imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment, for a single offense;

(qq) Subject to the provisions of existing law, to exercise the power eminent domain for the following purposes the construction or extension of roads, streets, sidewalks, boulevards, seawalls, bridges, ferries, levees, wharves, or piers, airfields; the construction of public buildings, eluding schoolhouses, and the making of necessary improvements in connection therewith; the establishment of parks, playgrounds, plazas, market places, artesian wells, o terns for the supply of water, irrigation canals and dams, and establishment of nurseries, breeding stations for animals, health centers, hospitals, cemeteries, drainage systems, cesspool, or sewage systems and abattoirs; and

(rr) To dispose by lease or otherwise all lands of the public domain ceded to it by the National Government pursuant to the provisions of this Charter.

1. Department of Finance
2. Department of Engineering and Public Works
3.Law Department
4.Prosecution Department
5. Department of Health
6. Police Department
7. Fire Department
8. Department of Assessment

(a)To have charge of all the surveying and engineering works of the city; care, cleaning and sprinkling of streets,canals and esteros,parks andpublic grounds, bridges, playgrounds and recreation centers, and shall perform such services in connection with public improvements, or any work entered upon or projected by the city, or any department thereof, as may require the skill and experience of a civil engineer;

(b) To ascertain, record, and establish monuments of the city survey and from thence extend the survey of the city, and locate, establish and survey all city properties; L private properties abutting on the same whenever died by the mayor;

(c) To prepare and submit plans, maps, specifications and estimates for buildings,streets, bridges,docks and other public works, and supervise the construction and repair of the same;

(d) To make such tests and inspection of engineering materials used in construction and repair as may be necessary to protect the city from the use of materials of a
poor or dangerous quality;

(e) To have the care of all public buildings when erected, including markets and slaughterhouses, and buildings rented for city purposes, and of any system now or hereafter established by the city for lighting the streets, public, places or public buildings;

(f) To take care of all public streets, parks and bridges, and shall maintain and regulate the use of the same for all purposes as provided for by ordinance; shall collect and
dispose of all garbage, refuse, the contents of closets, vaults and cesspools, and all other offensive and dangerous substances within the city and, in the event the disposal
and collection of such garbage, refuse and other offensive substances has been awarded to a private contractor, the disposal and collection thereof shall be under the supervision of the city engineer;

(g) To have the care and custody of all public docks, wharves, piers, levees and landing places owned by the city;

(h) To prevent the encroachment of private buildings and fences on the streets and public places in the city;

(i) To have general supervision and inspection of all private docks, wharves, piers, levees and landing places; and other properties bordering on the harbor, river, esteros and waterways of the city; and to issue permits the construction, repair and removal of the same; and enforce all ordinances relating to the same;

(j) To have the care and custody of the public of waterworks and sewers, and all sources of water supply; and shall control, maintain and regulate the use of the same in accordance with the ordinance relating thereto; shall inspect and regulate the use of all private systems for supplying water to the city and its inhabitant and all private sewers and their connections with the public sewers systems;

(k) To supervise the laying of mains and connections for the purpose of supplying gas to the inhabitants of the city;

(1) To inspect and report upon the conditions of pub­lic property and public works whenever required by the mayor;

(m) To supervise and regulate the location and use of engines, boilers, forges and other manufacturing and heating appliances in accordance with law and ordinances relating thereto. He is authorized to charge fees at rates to be fixed by the city council for the sanitation and transportation services and supplies furnished by his department;

(n) To inspect and supervise the construction, repair, removal and safety of private buildings, and regulate and enforce the numbering of houses in accordance with the ordinances of the city;

(o) With the previous approval of the mayor in each case, to order the removal of buildings and structures erected in violation of the ordinances; to order the removal materials employed in the construction or repair of any building or structure made in violation of said ordinance and to cause buildings and structures dangerous to public to be made secure or torn down; and

(p) To file and preserve all maps, plans, notes, surveys and other papers and documents pertaining to his office.

(a) To represent personally or through any assistant, the city in all civil cases wherein the city, or any officer thereof, in his official capacity, is a party; and to prose-
cute and defend all civil actions related to or connected
with any city officer or interest;

(b) To instituteand prosecute in thecity's interest, a suit on any bond, lease, or other contract and, upon any breach or violation thereof, when directed by the Mayor;

(c) To give his opinion in writing, when requested by the mayor or the council or any of the heads of the city apartments, upon any question relating to the city or the rights or duties of any city officer thereof;

(d) To attend meetings of the council when requested, draw ordinances, contracts, bonds, leases and other instruments involving any interest of the city, and in and pass upon any such instrument already drawn;

(e) To investigate or cause the investigation, whenever it is brought to his knowledge, that any city officer or employee is guilty of neglect or misconduct in office or that any person, firm, or corporation holding or exercising any franchise or public privilege from the city has failed to comply with any condition, or to pay any consideration mentioned in the grant of such franchise privilege and report the same to the mayor;and

(f) To render such official services as the mayor or city council may require, and shall exercise and perform such additional powers and duties as may be prescribed by
law or ordinance.

(a) To have charge of the prosecution of all crimes and violations of the city ordinances in the city court the city, or the Court of First Instance, and shall discharge
all the duties in respect to criminal prosecution as are joined by law upon provincial fiscals;

(b) To cause to be investigated all charges of crime, misdemeanors and violations of laws and city ordinance and have the necessary information's or complaints prepared or made against the persons accused. He or any his assistants may conduct such investigations by taking oral evidence of reputed witnesses, and for this purpose
may, by subpoena, summon witnesses to appear and testify under oath before him, and subpoena duces tecum for the production of documents and other evidence.The attendance of an absent or recalcitrant witness may be enforced by application for a warrant of arrest to the city court or to the Court of First Instance;

(c) To cause to be investigated the cause of sudden deaths which have not been satisfactorily explained and there is suspicion that the cause arose from the unlawful acts or omissions of other persons, or from foul play. For that purpose,he may cause autopsies to be in case it is deemed necessary and shall be entitled to demand and receive for the purpose of such investigations or autopsies the aid of the city health officer; and

(d) To render such official services as the mayor or the city council may require, and shall exercise and perform such additional powers and duties as may be prescribed by law or ordinance.

(a) To have general supervision over the health and sanitary conditions of the city, including the cleaning of crematories, cemeteries, stockyards, slaughter houses and
markets;

(b) To execute and enforce all laws,ordinances and regulations relating to the public health;

(c) To recommend to the city council the passage of such ordinances, as he may deem necessary for the preservation of the public health;

(d) To cause to be prosecuted all violations of sanitary laws, ordinances, or regulations;

(e) He shall make sanitary inspections and may be aided therein by such members of the police force of the city or the national police as shall be designated as sanitary police by the chief of police or proper national police officer and such sanitary inspectors as may be authorized by law;

(f) He shall administer the city cemeteries and shall have charge of the duties related to the issuance of burial and transfer permits, and permits for the conveyance
body to seal for burial;

(g) To have control and supervision over centers and social services of the city;

(h) To keep a civil register for the city and shall cord therein all births, marriages and deaths with their respective dates,annulments of marriages, legitimation adoptions, acknowledgment of natural children, naturalization and changes of names; and

(i) To perform such other duties,not repugnant to law or ordinance, with reference to the health and sanitation of the city as the Director of Health Services shall direct.In case of epidemic or when the inhabitants of the city are menaced by any infectious or contagious diseases, the Director of Health Services shall assume full control of the health and sanitation services of the city until such condition shall have ceased to exist.

(a) To issue supplementary regulation not incompatible with law or general regulations promulgated by the proper department head of the National Government, in
accordance with law, for the government of the city police
and detective force;

(b) To quell riots, disorders, disturbances of the peace, and shall arrest and prosecute through the city fiscal, violators of law or ordinances; shall exercise exclusive police
supervision over all land and water within the police jurisdiction of the city; shall be charged with protection of the rights of persons and property wherever found within
the jurisdiction of the city, and shall arrest, when necessary, or prevent the escape of offenders and violators of law or ordinance, all who obstruct or interfere with him in the discharge of his duty; shall have charge of the city prison; and shall be responsible for the safekeeping of all prisoners until they shall be released from custody, in accordance with law, or delivered to the warden of the prison or penitentiary;

(c) He may take good and sufficient bail for the appearance before the judge of the city court of any person arrested for violation of any city ordinance: Provided, however, That he shall not exercise this power in cases of violation of any penal law, except when the fiscal of the city shall so recommend and fix the bail to be required of the person arrested;

(d) He shall have authority within the police limits if the city, to serve and execute criminal processes of any court;

(e) He shall be the deputy sheriff of the city, and as such, shall personally or by representative, attend the sessions of the city court, and shall execute promptly and
faithfully all writs and processes of said court;

(f) He shall exercise supervision over the police training school established in accordance with the rules and regulations of the police department; and

(g) He shall have such further powers and perform such further duties as may be prescribed by law or ordinance.

(a)To issue supplementary regulations not incompatible with law or general regulations issued by the proper department head of the National Government in accordance with law, for the governance of the fire zone;

(b)To have charge of the fire engine houses, the fire engine, hose trucks, hooks and ladders, trucks and all other fire apparatus;

(c)To have police powers in the vicinity of fires;

(d)To have authority to remove or demolish any building or other property whenever it shall become necessary to prevent the spreading of fire or to protect adjacent property;

(e) To investigate and report to the mayor upon the origin and cause of all fires occurring in the city;

(f) To inspect all buildings erected or under construction or repair within the city, and determine whether they Provide sufficient protection against fire and comply with the ordinances relating thereto;

(g)To have charge of the city telegraph; telephone fire alarm service;

(h)To have exclusive power, notwithstanding any to the contrary, to supervise and regulate the stringing grounding and installation of wires for all electrical connections with a view to avoiding conflagrations interference with public traffic or safety, or the necessary operation of the fire department;

(i) To condemn all defective electrical installations a: shall take the necessary steps to effect immediate corrective action informing the mayor of the action taken;

(j) To supervise the manufacture, storage and use of petroleum, gas, acetylene, gunpowder and other highly combustible matter and explosives;

(k) No permit for the construction or repair of buildings within the city shall be granted unless the plans relative thereto have been approved by the chief of the fire department. He shall have the power to alter or disap­prove such plans as do not provide for adequate protection against the occurrence of fires; and

(l) To have such powers and perform such duties as may further be prescribed by law or ordinance.

(a) The city assessor and his authorized deputies are feed to administer any oath authorized to be administered in connection with the valuation of real estate for the assessment and collection of taxes;

(b) To make a list of the taxable real estate in the city, arranging in the order of the lot and block numbers the names of the owners thereof, with a brief description of the property opposite each such name and the cash value hereof. In making this list, the city assessor shall take into consideration any sworn statement made by the owners of the property, but shall not be prevented thereby from considering any other evidence on the subject and exercising his own judgment in respect thereto.For the purpose of completing this list, he and his representative may enter upon the real estate for the purposes of examining and measuring it, and may summon witnesses, administer oaths to them, and subject them to examination concerning the ownership and the amount of real estate and its cost value; and

(c) He may, it necessary, examine the records of the register of deeds of the province showing the ownership of real estate in the city.

(b) Lands or buildings which are the only real property of the owner, and the value of which does not exceed four hundred pesos; and

(c) Machinery, which term shall embrace machines,mechanical contrivances, instruments, appliances and apparatus attached to the real estate, used for industrial,agriculture or manufacturing purposes,during the five years of the operation of the machinery.

“I hereby certify that the foregoing list contains a true statement of the piece or pieces or taxable real estate belonging to each person named in the list and its true cash value, and that no real estate taxable by law in the City of General Santos has been omitted from the list, according to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Signature of City Assessor”

"I do solemnly swear(or affirm)that I will hear and determine well and truly all matters and issues between taxpayers and the city assessor submitted for my decision.So help me God. (In case of affirmation the it words are to be stricken out.)

Signature

Signature and title of officer administering oath"

(a) The tools and implements necessarily used by the
delinquent in his trade or employment;

(b) Two horses, or two cows, or two carabaos, or beasts of burden, such as the delinquent may select necessarily used by him in his ordinary occupation

(c) His necessary clothing and that of his family;

(d) Household furniture and utensils necessary for keeping, and used for that purpose by the delinquent, such as he may select, of a value not exceeding five hundred
pesos;

(e) Provisions for individual or family sufficient for three months;

(f) The professional libraries of lawyers, judges, physicians, pharmacists, dentists, engineers, surveyors, clergymen, school teachers and music teachers, not exceeding one thousand pesos in value;

(g) One fishing boat and net, the property of any fisherman, by the lawful use of which he earns a livelihood;

(h) So much of the earnings of the delinquent for his personal services within the month preceding the levy as necessary for the support of his family;

(i) Lettered gravestones;

(j) All moneys, benefits, privileges, or annuities accruing or in any manner growing out of any life insurance, if the annual premiums paid do not exceed five hundred pesos, and if they exceed that sum, a like exemption shall exist which shall bear the same proportion to the moneys, benefits, privileges and annuities so accruing or growing out of such insurance that said five hundred pesos bears o the whole annual premiums paid; and

(k) Any article or material which forms part of a home f of any improvement on any real estate

(b) No court shall entertain any suit assailing the validity of a tax assessed under this Charter until the payer shall have paid,under protest the taxes asses
against him; nor shall any court declare any tax invalid by reason of irregularities or in formalities of the office charged with the assessment or collection of taxes or
a failure to perform their duties within the time specific for their performance, unless such irregularities, in formalities, or failures shall have impaired the substantial rights
of the taxpayer;

(c) No court shall entertain any suit assailing the validity of the tax sale of land under this Charter until tax payer shall have paid into the court the amount for
which the land was sold, together with interest at rate of twelve per centum per annum upon the sum from the date of the sale to the time of instituting the suit. The money so paid into the court shall belong and be delivered to the purchaser of the tax sale, if the deed is declared invalid and shall be returned to the depositor should he
fail in his action; and

(d) No court shall declare any such sale invalid by reason of any irregularities or in formalities in the proceeding of the officer charged with the duty of making the
or by reason of failure by him to perform his duties win in the time herein specified for their performance unless such irregularities, informalities, or failure shall have paired the substantial rights of the taxpayer.