Basic Principles of

Local Government
 Policy and Application
Declaration of
Policy
The territorial and
political
subdivisions of
the State shall
enjoy genuine
and meaningful
local autonomy
 Policy and Application
Declaration of
Policy
A system of
decentralization
whereby local
government units
shall be given
more powers,
authority,
responsibilities,
and resources
 Policy and Application
Accountability of
LGU’s
By effective
mechanisms of
recall, initiative
and
referendum.
 Operative Principles of
Decentralization
Organizational
Structure An accountable,
efficient, and
dynamic that will
meet the priority
needs and
service
requirements of
its communities
 Operative Principles of
Decentralization
Enhancing Local
Autonomy
By legislative
enabling acts,
administrative
and
organizational
reforms
 Operative Principles of
Decentralization
Local Autonomy coordination of
national
government
policies and
technical and
material
assistance of
LGU’s
 Operative Principles of
Decentralization
Participation of
Private Sectors Delivery of Basic
Services as an
alternative
strategy for
sustainable
development
 Scope of Application

Application to... All provinces,

cities,
municipalities,
barangays,
and other
political
subdivisions
 Rules of Interpretation
General Welfare
• shall be liberally
Provisions interpreted to
give more
powers to LGU’s
in upgrading the
quality of life for
the people in
the community;
GENERAL POWERS AND ATTRIBUTES
OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIT’S
Authority to Create Local
Government Units

LGU’s may be
created, divided,
merged, abolished, or
its boundaries
substantially altered
either by law enacted
by Congress
CREATION AND
CONVERSION
 INCOME

It must be sufficient,
based on acceptable
standards, to provide for
all essential government
facilities and services
and special functions
commensurate with the
size of its population
 POPULATION

Shall be determined
as the total number
of inhabitants within
the territorial
jurisdiction
 LAND AREA

Properly identified by
metes and bounds with
technical descriptions;
and sufficient to provide
for basic services and
facilities to meet the
requirements of its
populace
DIVISION AND MERGER

Shall not reduce the

income, population, or
land area of the local
government unit or units
concerned to less than
the minimum
requirements prescribed
 ABOLITION OF LGU’s

May be abolished when

its income, population,
or land area has been
irreversibly reduced to
less than the minimum
standards prescribed for
its creation
PLEBISCITE REQUIREMENT

No creation, division,
merger, abolition, or
substantial alteration of
boundaries of local
government units shall take
effect unless approved by a
majority of the votes cast in
a plebiscite
SELECTION AND TRANSFER OF LOCAL
GOVERNMENT SITE, OFFICES AND
FACILITIES
 FACTORS RELATING
TO...

geographical centrality,
accessibility, availability of
transportation and
communication facilities,
drainage and sanitation,
development and economic
progress, and other relevant
considerations shall be taken
into account
 OLD SITE

,
may be disposed of by
the sale or lease or
converted to such other
use as may be deem
beneficial to the local
government unit
concerned and its
inhabitants.
 TRANSFER TO
ANOTHER SITE

a vote of two-
thirds (2/3) of all its
members
NO TRANSFER

Unless public
hearings are
conducted
GOVERNMENT CENTERS

Establish a government
center where offices,
agencies, or branches of
the national government,
local government units, or
government-owned or
controlled corporations
may, as far as practicable,
be located
NAMING OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS
AND PUBLIC PLACES, STREETS AND
STRUCTURES
The SP may, in consultation
with the Philippine Historical
Commission (PHC), change
the name of the following
within its territorial
jurisdiction
CHANGING OF NAME

Component cities and

municipalities, upon
the recommendation
of the sanggunian
concerned
CHANGING OF NAME

Provincial roads,
avenues, boulevards,
thoroughfares, and
bridges
CHANGING OF NAME

Public vocational or
technical schools and
other post-secondary
and tertiary schools
CHANGING OF NAME

None of the foregoing LGU,

institutions, places, or
buildings shall be named
after a living person, nor
may a change of name be
made unless for a justifiable
reason and, in any case,
not oftener than once every
ten (10) years
CHANGING OF NAME

A change of name of
a public school shall
be made only upon
the recommendation
of the local school
board concerned.
CHANGING OF NAME

A change of name of
public hospitals, health
centers, and other
health facilities shall be
made only upon the
recommendation of the
local health board
concerned
CHANGING OF NAME

The change of name of

any local government
unit shall be effective
only upon ratification in
a plebiscite conducted
for the purpose in the
political unit directly
affected
 GENERAL WELFARE

shall ensure and support,

among other things, the
preservation and enrichment of
culture, promote health and
safety, enhance the right of the
people to a balanced ecology,
encourage and support the
development of appropriate
and self-reliant scientific and
technological capabilities,
 GENERAL WELFARE

improve public morals,

enhance economic
prosperity and social justice,
promote full employment
among their residents,
maintain peace and order,
and preserve the comfort
and convenience of their
inhabitants
 BASIC SERVICES AND
FACILITIES

Local government units

shall endeavor to be self-
reliant and shall continue
exercising the powers and
discharging the duties
and functions currently
vested upon them
BASIC SERICES
 FOR BARANGAY

Agricultural support
services which include
planting materials
distribution system and
operation of farm
produce collection and
buying stations
 FOR BARANGAY

Health and social

welfare services
which include
maintenance of
barangay health
center and day-care
center
 FOR BARANGAY

Services and facilities

related to general
hygiene and
sanitation,
beautification, and
solid waste collection
 FOR BARANGAY

Maintenance of
katarungang
pambarangay
 FOR BARANGAY

Infrastructure facilities
such as multi-purpose
hall, multipurpose
pavement, plaza,
sports center, and
other similar facilities
 FOR BARANGAY

Information and
reading center and
Satellite or public
market, where
viable;
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

Extension and on-site research

services and facilities related to
agriculture and fishery activities
which include dispersal of livestock
and poultry, fingerlings, and other
seedling materials for aquaculture;
palay, corn, and vegetable seed farms;
medicinal plant gardens; fruit tree,
coconut, and other kinds of seedling
nurseries; demonstration farms;
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

quality control of copra and

improvement and development of
local distribution channels, preferably
through cooperatives; interbarangay
irrigation system; water and soil
resource utilization and conservation
projects; and enforcement of fishery
laws in municipal waters including the
conservation of mangroves
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

Subject to the provisions of Title

Five, Book I of this Code, health
services which include the
implementation of programs and
projects on primary health care,
maternal and child care, and
communicable and non-
communicable disease control
services,
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

access to secondary and tertiary

health services; purchase of
medicines, medical supplies, and
equipment needed to carry out
the services herein enumerated
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

Social welfare services which

include programs and projects on
child and youth welfare, family
and community welfare,
women's welfare, welfare of the
elderly and disabled persons;
community-based rehabilitation
programs for vagrants
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

beggars, street children,

scavengers, juvenile delinquents,
and victims of drug abuse;
livelihood and other pro-poor
projects; nutrition services; and
family planning services
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

Information services which

include investments and job
placement information systems,
tax and marketing information
systems, and maintenance of a
public library
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

Solid waste disposal system or

environmental management
system and services or facilities
related to general hygiene and
sanitation
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

Municipal buildings, cultural

centers, public parks including
freedom parks, playgrounds, and
other sports facilities and
equipment, and other similar
facilities
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

Public markets,
slaughterhouses and other
municipal enterprises;

Public cemetery
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

Tourism facilities and other

tourist attractions, including
the acquisition of equipment,
regulation and supervision of
business concessions, and
security services for such
facilities
FOR A MUNICIPALITY

Sites for police and fire

stations and substations
and municipal jail
Power to Generate and
Apply Resources

..to establish an
organization that shall be
responsible for the
efficient and effective
implementation of their
development plans,
program objectives and
priorities;
 Eminent Domain

For public use, or purpose

or welfare for the benefit
of the poor and the
landless, upon payment of
just compensation,
pursuant to the provisions
of the Constitution and
pertinent laws
Reclassification of Lands

1. When the land ceases

to be economically
feasible and sound for the
agricultural purposes as
determined by
Department of Agriculture
Reclassification of Lands

2. Where the land shall

have substantially greater
economic value for
residential, commercial, or
industrial purposes
 Corporate
Powers
To have continuous succession in
its corporate name
To enter into contracts
To sue and be sued
To have and use a corporate
To exercise such other powers
seal as granted to corporations,
subject to the limitations
To acquire and convey real or
provided
personal property
 Authority to Negotiate
and Secure Grants

Secure financial grants and

donations in kind, in
support of the basic
services from local and
foreign agencies
Liability for Damages

Not exempted for death or

injury to persons or
damages to property.
 National Supervision over Local
Government Units
The President
NationalTheagencies
President
National
shall may
agencies and
and
exercise
offices direct
withoffices
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implementation chief for his
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information
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ensure thatprovide
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their financial,
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with LGUreports including
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certified
other budgetary
of their forms
discharge ofallocations
prescribed of assistance
these and
powers andtofunctions
functions. theexpenditures.
LGU.
 It shall be the duty of every national
agency or government-owned or
controlled corporation authorizing or
involved in the planning and
implementation of any project or
program that may cause pollution,
climate change , depletion, of non-
renewable resources, loss of cropland,
rangeland, or forest cover, and extinction
of animal or plant species.
Relations with the Philippine
National Police

R. A. No. 6975
The Department of the Local
Government Act of 1990
 Inter-Local Government
Relations

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Governor
ensure
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 Relations with the People’s and
Non-Governmental
Organizations
LGUs mayAn enter
LGU mayintoprovide
joint ventures and
such assistance
other cooperative
to NGOsarrangements
for economic,with
NGOs to engage in the
social-oriented, delivery of certain
environmental,
basic services,projects
or cultural capability-building
to be and
livelihood projects,
implemented and to
within itsdevelop local
territorial
enterprises designed to improve
jurisdiction.
productivity and income.
 Local PBAC

Responsible for the conduct of

requalification of contractors, bidding,
evaluation of bids, and the
recommendation of awards concerning
local infrastructure projects.
 Local Technical Committee

Provide technical assistance to the

local PBAC.