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CA 581 Section 8

Appointment and compensation.

Section 8

SEC. 8. Appointment and compensation. - Each special municipality shall have a mayor who shall be its chief executive and shall reside in the respective special municipality, shall be appointed by the President, with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the National Assembly, and shall hold office at the discretion of the President, unless in the general elections for local officers following his appointment, a majority of the electorate of his municipality should vote against his continuation in office. This form of recall shall be undertaken successively in all the general elections for the election of local officers. The official ballots to be used in these special municipalities shall contain the following question: Do you accept the continuation in office of the Mayor? The answer, 'Yes' or 'No' shall be written within the rectangle appearing opposite the question, and the boards of election inspectors shall make the counting of the votes cast aid thereafter shall make the affirmative and negative votes appear in their separate returns, which shall be sent or delivered to the Secretary of the Municipal Council not later than twenty-four hours after they are signed by the election inspectors. The Municipal Council shall make the final counting of the votes appearing in the election returns received from the boards of inspectors arid shall certify the result thereof to the President of the Philippines who will appoint another mayor, if the result of the election is adverse to the incumbent. The mayor of the municipality of Tablas shall receive a salary not exceeding one thousand eight hundred pesos annually. Those of the special municipalities of Sibuyan, Bomblon, and Maghali, shall each receive a salary not exceeding one thousand two hundred pesos annually. At the time of the organization of the special municipalities, the Secretary of the Interior shall recommend to the President of die Philippines the salary each mayor of these four special municipalities shall receive temporarily until the respective municipal councils, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, have appropriated and approved in their general appropriation ordinance the respective salary.

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CitationCA 581 Section 8 (LawPlayer, data as of 2026-07-04)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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