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==Penalties for those who refuse official probes== | |||
*Source: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/2012/04/14/penalties-for-those-who-refuse-official-probes/ | |||
*Saturday, 14 April, 2012 | |||
:by Maricel Cruz | |||
STIFFER penalties will be imposed against persons who refuse to attend congressional inquiries or a constitutional commission hearing as witnesses. | |||
House Bill 5817, authored by Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Jay Velasco, proposes the penalty of arresto mayor [minimum jail term of six months] or a fine ranging from P16,000 to P80,000, or both. | |||
The bill seeks to amend the “fine components” of the Revised Penal Code, which are still base on 1930 rates, the year the law was enacted. It carries the penalty of arresto mayor and an obsolete fines ranging from P200 to P1,000. | |||
The bill noted that the massive inflation and devaluation our currency has gone through renders the punitive fine component of the penal code negligible. | |||
“To uphold the full force and teeth of the penal laws, punishment for offenses and crimes including fines, imprisonment and civil disqualification components must be up to date,” the bill read. | |||
Under the measure, the penalty of arresto mayor or a fine ranging from P16,000 to P80,000, or both, shall be imposed upon any person who, having been duly summoned to attend as a witness before Congress, its special or standing committees and subcommittees. | |||
The bodies also include constitutional commissions and its committees, subcommittees, or divisions, or any commission or committee chairman or member authorized to summon witnesses. | |||
Those who refuse, without legal excuse, to obey such summons, or be present before any such legislative or constitutional body or official, refuses to be sworn or placed under affirmation or to answer any legal inquiry or to produce any books, papers, documents, or records in his possession, when required by them to do so in the exercise of their functions will be penalized. | |||
The same penalty shall be imposed upon any person who shall restrain another from attending as a witness, or who shall induce disobedience to a summon or refusal to be sworn by any such body or official. | |||
“The bill suggests a new amount, subject to the committee’s discretion, replacing the old ones using a formula utilizing the available data from the National Statistics Coordination Board relating to Consumer Price Indexes,” Velasco said. | |||
==Marinduque and US rotary clubs to sponsor water project== | ==Marinduque and US rotary clubs to sponsor water project== | ||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R04B&article=2171334296744 | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R04B&article=2171334296744 | ||
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Rotarians’ initiative and concern surprisingly are all that the barangay people needs to quench their thirst not only for water but solution to their perennial basic problem that by June is expected to be eradicated. (LBR/MNL-PIA4B Marinduque) | Rotarians’ initiative and concern surprisingly are all that the barangay people needs to quench their thirst not only for water but solution to their perennial basic problem that by June is expected to be eradicated. (LBR/MNL-PIA4B Marinduque) | ||
==Palawan, Mindoro diving sites listed among world's best== | ==Palawan, Mindoro diving sites listed among world's best== | ||