City departments—Municipal Court.
Section 16
SEC. 16. City departments—Municipal Court.—There shall be a department of engineering and public works headed by the city engineer; a law department headed by the city attorney; a finance department headed by the city treasurer; and a police department headed by the chief of police, and such other departments as may from time to time be established by law or duly enacted ordinances, approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Pending the establishment of such departments, the existing officials who perform functions for or in behalf of the municipal government of Zamboanga shall continue to perform their respective functions and receive their present compensation. The City Council may, by ordinance, approved by the Secretary of the Interior, make from time to time such readjustment of the duties of the several departments, as the public interest may demand, or alter, consolidate, or abolish them. There shall be a Municipal Court presided over by a Judge.