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Act No. 3030 Section 47

Act No. 3030 Section 47

Section 47

SEC. 47. Section twenty-six hundred and thirty-seven of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2637. Fraud of officer touching registration.—Any inspector or poll clerk who knowingly enters upon any registry or poll list or causes or allows to be entered thereon the name of any person as a voter in a district who is not a voter thereof, and any inspector of election who refuses or willfully votes to refuse or willfully neglects to enter the name of any qualified applicant for registration upon the registry list, or who knowingly prevents or seeks to prevent the registration of any legally qualified voter, or who is guilty of any fraud or corrupt conduct in the duties of his office, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than four years, and by a fine of not less than six hundred pesos nor more than four thousand pesos, and in all cases by deprivation of the right of suffrage and disqualification from public office for a period of not more than five years. "Any election inspector who fails to publish the registry list of transmit the same to the proper authorities, or who refuses to give a certified copy of the statement and registry list and other certificates and proceedings of the election board within the term fixed in this law, or who fails to deliver the keys of the boxes to the municipal treasurer, as herein provided, or deprives the watchers or any voter of the right granted to them by the present law, and any officer of any category or private individual inducing or aiding the election inspectors to commit any of the aforesaid acts or committing the same himself, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than three months nor more than two years, and by a fine of not less than three hundred pesos nor more than two thousand pesos, and in all cases by deprivation of the right of suffrage and disqualification from public office for a period of not more than four years."

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CitationAct No. 3030 Section 47 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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