Section 3
SEC. 3. Appointment of Municipal Treasurers, Assistant Municipal Treasurers, Municipal Deputy Assessors and other municipal treasury and assessment personnel.—Effective July 1, 1976, the power to appoint the Municipal Treasurers, Assistant Municipal Treasurers and Municipal Deputy Assessors of the municipalities within the Metropolitan Manila Area theretofore exercised by the Provincial Treasurers and Provincial Assessors of the provinces concerned shall be vested upon the Commissioner for Finance of the Metropolitan Manila Commission subject to the provisions of Sections 70 and 74 of Presidential Decree No. 477 and Section 90 of Presidential Decree No. 464, as the case may be, upon recommendation of the City Treasurer or the City Assessor of the District concerned. Henceforth, the position of Municipal Deputy Assessor provided for under Section ninety of Presidential Decree No. 464 shall be known as Municipal Assessor. The other municipal treasury and assessment personnel shall continue to be appointed by the local chief executive of the municipality in accordance with existing laws. The incumbent Municipal Treasurers, Assistant Municipal treasurers, Municipal Deputy Assessors and other municipal treasury and assessment personnel shall continue in office without the necessity of being reappointed and they may be removed from the service or otherwise disciplined only for cause as provided for by law.