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Act No. 82 Section 6

Section 6

SEC. 6. The electors charged with the duty of choosing elective municipal officers shall be male persons, twenty-three years of age or over, who have had a legal residence in the municipality in which they exercise the suffrage for a period of six months immediately preceding the election, and who are not citizens or subjects of any foreign power, and who are comprised within one of the following three classes: (a) Those who, prior to the thirteenth of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, held the office of municipal captain, gobernadorcillo, alcalde, lieutenant, cabeza de barangay or member of any ayuntamiento. (b) Those who own real property to the value of five hundred pesos, or who annually pay thirty pesos or more of the established taxes. (c) Those who speak, read, and write English or Spanish.

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CitationAct No. 82 Section 6 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

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