Act No. 1627 Section 4

Jurisdiction In in/ and sentence.

Section 4

SEC. 4. Jurisdiction In in/ and sentence.—Justices of the peace, except in the city of Manila, shall have original jurisdiction to try parties charged with misdemeanors, offenses, and infractions of municipal ordinances, arising within the municipality, in which the penalty provided by law does not exceed six months' imprisonment or a fine of two hundred pesos, or both such imprisonment and fine: and subdivision (g) of section eighteen of Act Numbered Eighty-two is hereby repealed.

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