Inauguration of the city government.
Section 82
SEC. 82. Inauguration of the city government.—The city government provided for in this Charter shall begin to exist on the date on which the provincial and municipal officers elected at the first general election held after the approval of this Act shall assume office. However, if such election shall be postponed to a date after the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, the government of the City of Iloilo shall be inaugurated on the sixteenth day of July of said year. In this event, and prior to said date, the President of the Philippines, with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the National Assembly, shall appoint, besides the mayor and other appointive officers, the first city councilors who, unless removed for cause, shall hold office and enjoy the emoluments and powers appertaining thereto until their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified in accordance with section fifteen hereof.