Arrangement of election precincts.
Section 52
SEC. 52. Arrangement of election precincts. — (a) The election precincts shall be so arranged that no precinct shall have more than two hundred and fifty voters and each shall comprise, as far as practicable, contiguous and compact territory. (b) When it appears that an election precinct contains more than two hundred and fifty voters, the municipal council or board shall make such adjustment or new division as may be necessary. (c) A municipality or a municipal district which has been merged with another municipality shall constitute at least one election precinct, if the distance between the remotest barrio of the merged municipality or district and the nearest polling place of the municipality to which it has been merged shall, by the shortest road, exceed five kilometers. (d) An island or group of islands having one hundred and fifty or more voters shall constitute a precinct.