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CONSTITUTION BASIS :

.........The Congress shall enact a local government code which shall provide for a more responsive and accountable local government structure institutes through system of dencentralization with effective mechanisms of recall, initiative, and referendum, allocate among the different local government units their powers, responsibilities, and resources, and provide for the qualifications, election, appointment and removal, term, salaries powers and functions and duties of local officials, and all other matters relating to the organization and operation of the local units (Section. 3, Article X, 1987 Philippine Constitution).

TWO BASIC POWERS OF THE SANGGUNIAN UNDER LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF 1991 (R.A. No. 7160):

LEGISLATIVE POWER

Secs. 48, 447, 458, Local Government Code

QUASI-JUDICIAL POWER

1. Administrative Disciplinary Action Against Local Elective Officials (Secs. 60 to 68, Local Government Code).

.2. Settling on Bounderies Disputes (Secs. 118 and 119, Local Government .Code).
 
. The 3rd Council convenes at the SP Session Hall every Monday at 9:00 o'clock in the morning for the Regular Session. Held here is the privilege hour, question hour, reading and referral of proposed measures, committee reports as well as the Calendar of Business which includes the unfinished business, business of the day -i.e. measures on 2nd reading, unassigned business, and measures on 3rd reading.
 
Public Hearing on August 23, 2007 @ 2:00 P.M. @ SP Session Hall: Committee on Laws, Rules & Privileges: City Ordinance No. 241, s-2007 - "An Ordinance Adopting the mace with the Official Seal of the Sangguniang Panlungsod of the City of Tagum and for other purposes"