Qualifications.
Section 42
SEC. 42. Qualifications.—Municipal officers and employees shall have the following qualifications in general: (a) President, vice-president, and councilors.—A president, vice-president, or councilor shall have the qualifications prescribed by law for elective municipal officers: Provided, That in the case of an appointive municipal president it will be sufficient if he is a duly-qualified elector of the province. (b) Secretary.—A secretary shall be able to read, write, and speak intelligently a local dialect generally understood in the municipality, and the Spanish or English language. (c) Ecclesiastics, soldiers, and so forth.—In no case shall there be elected or appointed to a municipal office ecclesiastics ; soldiers in active service; persons receiving salaries from provincial, departmental, or Insular funds; those who are delinquent in the payment of public taxes assessed after September fourteenth, nineteen hundred and five; or contractors for public works within the province. ARTICLE 16.—The municipal executive.