Powers and Duties.
Section 177
SEC. 177. Powers and Duties.—The sangguniang panlungsod shall: (a) Enact such ordinances as may be necessary to carry into effect and discharge the responsibilities conferred upon it by law, and such as shall be necessary and proper to provide for the health and safety, comfort and convenience, maintain peace and order, improve the morals, and promote the prosperity and general welfare of the community and the inhabitants thereof, and the protection of property therein; (b) Appropriate funds far expenses of the city government, and fix the salaries of its officers and employees according to law; (c) Provide for the levy and collection of taxes and ether city revenues and apply the same to the payment of the expenses of the city in accordance with appropriations ; (d) Regulate, fix the license fee for, and tax any business or profession being carried on and exercised within the territorial jurisdiction of the city, except travel agencies, tourist guides, tourist transports, hotels, resorts, deluxe restaurants, and tourist inns of international standards which shall remain under the licensing and regulatory power of the Ministry of Tourism which shall exercise such authority without infringing on the taxing and regulatory powers of the city government; (e) Construct, keep in good repair and regulate the use of streets and other public places; establish bus stops and terminals; regulate garages and the operation of conveyances for hire; and designate stands to be occupied by public vehicles when not in use; (f) Provide for the construction, purchase and lease of buildings necessary for the use of the city; (g) Establish and maintain public elementary schools subject to such limitations as may be prescribed by law; (h) Establish fire limits or zones, determine the kinds of buildings and structures that may be erected within said limits or zones and regulate the manner of constructing and repairing the same, subject to applicable provisions of law; (i) Make suitable provisions to protect the public from conflagrations and to prevent and mitigate the effects of famine, floods, storms and other public calamities, and provide relief to victims thereof; (j) Provide for the lighting, cleaning and sprinkling of streets and other public places; summarily remove encroachments and constructions on them; regulate their use, the putting up thereon of signs, signposts, awning and awning posts; prohibit littering, the placing, depositing, leaving or throwing of garbage, refuse or other filth and provide for their collection and disposition; regulate the digging and excavation for the laying of gas, water, power, and other pipelines, the building and repair of tunnels, sewers and drains, and all structures thereunder; the placing, stringing, attaching, installing, repair and construction of all gas mains, electric, telegraph and telephone wires, conduits, meters and other apparatus, and the correction, condemnation or removal of the same when dangerous or defective; (k) Name and change the names of all streets and other public places not oftener than once every ten years; regulate traffic upon the same; construct, maintain and regulate the use of bridges, viaducts and culverts; and regulate amusements having the tendency to annoy persons, and in its discretion suspend, suppress or prohibit said amusements in order to protect the social and moral welfare of the community; (l) Establish and maintain waterworks for the purpose of supplying water to the inhabitants of the city, purify the source of supply, regulate the use and prevent the wastage of water, and fix and collect fees therefor; regulate the construction, repair, and use of hydrants, pumps, cisterns and reservoirs; and for the purpose of protecting and ensuring the purity and quantity of the water supply of the city, extend its ordinances over all territories within the drainage area of such water supply, and within one hundred meters of any reservoir, conduit, canal, aqueduct, pumping station or watershed used in connection with the water service; (m) Prohibit and penalize cruelty to animals, regulate their keeping and use, restrict or prohibit their running at large; establish and maintain a city pound and fix the fees for poundage; provide for the distraining, impounding, killing or sale of the same; and impose penalties upon the owners of said animals for the violation of any ordinance in relation thereto. Large cattle and all other animals of the bovine family shall be disposed of in ac¬cordance with law; (n) Require any land or building which is in an unsanitary condition to be cleaned at the expense of the owner or tenant, and upon failure to comply with such an order, have the work done, and assess the expenses upon the land or building; (o) Require the filling up to a grade necessary for proper sanitation, any and all lands and premises which may be declared by competent authority to be unsanitary for being below such grade; (p) Construct and keep in repair public drains, sewers and cesspools, and regulate the construction and use of private water closets, privies, sewers, drains and cesspools ; (q) Provide for the burial of the dead in such place and in such manner as prescribed by law or ordinance; (r) Establish and operate or authorize the establishment and operation of markets and slaughterhouses, and regulate the preparation and sale of meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, fruits and other provisions or articles of food offered for sale; (s) Adopt measures to prevent the introduction and spread of disease; (t) Declare, prevent and abate nuisance; (u) Provide for an efficient machinery for the recording of births, marriages, deaths, and other acts affecting civil status; (v) Suppress gambling houses, houses of ill fame, houses where prohibited drugs are unlawfully dispensed or used and other similar establishments; (w) Prohibit the printing, circulation, sale, distribution or exhibition of immoral and obscene pictures, films, articles, books or any other kind of pornographic publications; (x) Prevent and suppress riots, affrays, disturbances and disorderly assemblies, habitual drunkenness in public places, drug addiction, vagrancy, mendicancy, prostitution, gambling and other forms of disorderly or unlawful con¬duct, and adopt measures for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, alcoholics, vagrants, mendicants, prostitutes, gamblers and juvenile delinquents; (y) Fix the fees and/or charges for all services rendered by the city or any of its offices; (z) Establish or aid in the establishment and maintenance of secondary and vocational schools and other institutions of higher learning and, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, fix reasonable tuition and other school fees in the vocational schools and in other educational institutions supported by the city; (aa) Appropriate money for purposes not specified by law, having in view the general welfare of the city and its inhabitants; (bb) Create, define boundaries, and change the names of barangays in the city pursuant to the requirements of the law; (cc) Create, consolidate, and reorganize city offices and positions wholly supported by local funds; (dd) Review tax and appropriation ordinances, and if so required, other ordinances approved by the sangguniang -barangay to determine if they are within the powers conferred upon it by law; (ee) Authorize the payment of compensation or additional compensation, as the case may be, to any officer or employee designated to fill a temporary vacancy at a rate equal to that actually received by the regular incumbent; (ff) Provide for the care of the poor, the aged, the sick, persons of unsound mind and abandoned minors, and for the care and rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents and disabled or handicapped persons; (gg) Float bonds for the purpose of raising funds to finance development projects, subject to applicable provisions of law; (hh) Penalize violation of its ordinances by a fine of not more than one thousand pesos or imprisonment of not exceeding six months, or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court; (ii) Grant franchises to any person or corporation to do business within the city to establish, construct, operate and maintain a ferry or wharf, or undertake such other activities as may be allowed by law, subject to the conditions it may impose; (jj) Regulate cockpits, cockfighting and the keeping or training of gamecocks, subject to existing guidelines promulgated by the Philippine Gamefowl Commission; and (kk) Exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and functions as may be prescribed by law or ordinance.