Section 8
SEC. 8. Sections seventeen, nineteen, and twenty of the same Act are amended to read as follows: "SEC. 17. City departments.&mdashThere shall be a Finance Department, Assessment Department, Engineering Department, a Law Department, a Health Department, a Police Department, and a Fire Department. The Mayor shall have direct supervision and control over all the city departments: Provided, That the Law Department shall be under the supervision of the Department of Justice. "The Municipal Board, by ordinance, but only upon the recommendation of the Mayor, may from time to time assign additional functions or duties to, and make such readjustment of the duties of, the several departments as the public interest may demand, and may consolidate any department, division or office, except that it may not assign to any other department or office, any function or duty expressly assigned by this Charter to the Department of Finance, the Law Department, or the Police Department. "SEC. 19. Appointment and removal of officials and employees.&mdashThe President of the Philippines shall appoint with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the Congress of the Philippines the judges and auxiliary judges of the municipal court, the city treasurer and the assistant city treasurer, the city engineer, the city fiscal, the city health officer, the chief of police, the chief of the fire department, and the other heads of such city departments as may be created. "All other officers and employees of the city, including all those paid from city funds, whose appointments are not otherwise provided for in this Act, shall be appointed by the Mayor upon recommendation of the corresponding city department head, notwithstanding any existing law to the contrary, in accordance with the Civil Service Law and they shall be suspended or removed by the Mayor, subject to appeal to the Commissioner of Civil Service, whose decision shall be final. "SEC. 20. Officers not to engage in certain transactions.&mdashIt shall be unlawful for any officer, directly or indirectly, individually or as a member of a firm, to engage in any business transaction with the city, or with any of its authorized officials, boards, agents, or attorneys, whereby money is to be paid, directly, or indirectly, out of the resources of the city to such person or firm, or to purchase any real estate or other property belonging to the city, or which shall be sold for taxes or assessments, or by virtue of legal process at the suit of the city; or to be surety for any person having a contract or doing business with the city, for the performance of which security may be required; or to be surety on the official bond of any officer of the city; or to have a financial interest in any transaction or contract with the city or which the city is an interested party. Any willful violation of this section shall constitute malfeasance in office, and any officer or employee found guilty thereof shall thereby forfeit his city office or employment."