Reports have reached this Office concerning the practice of some theater operators/managers of allocating or designating only the theater front row seats for our monitoring MTRCB Board Members, staff, and deputies.

We wish to remind you that the main duty of every MTRCB Board Member, staff, and deputy, as they monitor any and all exhibitions of motion pictures, is to help ensure compliance with all laws relative to the exhibition of any motion picture and related publicity materials.

To effectively perform our monitoring duties, particularly with respect to checking the age category admitted into the theater if it is in compliance with the film rating or classification given, you are hereby ordered to allow our MTRCB Board Members, staff, and deputies, to sit in any theater seat available.

For your strict compliance.

Adopted: 19 July 2004


(SGD.) MA. CONSOLIZA P. LAGUARDIA
Chairman