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RA 5502 Section 84

RA 5502 Section 84

Regular, auxiliary, and acting judges of City Court.

Section 84

SEC. 84. Regular, auxiliary, and acting judges of City Court.—There shall be a City Court for the City of Caloocan, for which there shall be appointed a City judge and an auxiliary City judge. The Municipal Board may, when the circumstances so warrant and subject to the approval of the Secretary of Justice, appropriate an amount for the establishment of another branch or branches of the City court, the judge and auxiliary judge thereof to be appointed, as herein provided. The City judge may, upon proper application to the Secretary of Justice, be allowed a vacation: not more than thirty days every year with salary. The auxiliary City judge shall discharge the duties of the City judge in case of absence, incapacity, or inability of the latter until he assumes his post, or until a new judge shall have been appointed. During his incumbency, the, auxiliary City judge shall enjoy the powers, emoluments and privileges of the City judge who shall not receive any remuneration therefor except the salary to which he is entitled by reason of his vacation provided for in this Charter. In case of absence, incapacity, or inability of both the City judge and the auxiliary City judge, the Secretary of Justice shall designate the Municipal Judge of any of the adjoining municipalities or city judge of an adjoining City to preside over the City court; and he shall hold office temporarily until the regular incumbent or the auxiliary judge thereof shall have resumed office; or until another judge shall have been appointed in accordance with the provisions of this Charter. The municipal judge so designated shall receive his salary as municipal judge plus fifty percent of the salary of the City judge whose office he has temporarily assumed. The City judge shall receive a salary of fifteen thousand pesos per annum, five thousand four hundred pesos of which shall be payable from national funds.

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CitationRA 5502 Section 84 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

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

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