ANTI – HAZING LAW

Atty. Christian George Llanes Melitante

SCHOOL POLICY
• 29.1.1.27
• Membership with and/or organizing a Fraternity or a Sorority
- not sanctioned

• 29.1.1.28
• Involvement in Hazing or any Form of Physical Injuries
- initiation, admission or continuance of membership
- W/O they actually participate
- Officers liable regardless of presence
SANCTIONS:
• RESTITUTION
• COMMUNITY SERVICE
• PROBATION
• SUSPENSION
• DISQUALIFICATION FROM HONORS
• NON RE-ADMISSION
• DISMISSAL
 HAZING
• Initiation rite or practice
• Prerequisite for admission into membership in a fraternity,
sorority or organization
• By placing the recruit, neophyte or applicant in some
embarrassing or humiliating situations such
• Forcing him to do menial, silly, foolish and other similar tasks or
activities
• Subjecting him to physical injury
• Subjecting him to psychological suffering

R.A. 8049
Hazing Statistics
• The fraternal contract should not be signed in blood, celebrated with
pain, marred by injuries, and perpetrated through suffering.

• G.R. No. 209464               July 1, 2015

• DANDY L. DUNGO and GREGORIO A. SIBAL, JR., Petitioners, 
vs.
PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Respondent.
• Under RA 8049, in order for hazing to be valid, the following conditions must be
complied with:
• 1. Prior written notice to the school authorities or head of organization seven (7)
days before the conduct of such initiation
2. The written notice shall indicate the period of the initiation activities which shall
not exceed three (3) days, shall include the names of those to be subjected to such
activities.
3. The written notice shall contain an undertaking that no physical violence be
employed by anybody during such initiation rites.
4. At least two (2) representatives of the school or organization should be present
during the initiation. It is the duty of such representative to see to it that no
physical harm of any kind shall be inflicted upon a recruit, neophyte or applicant.