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Baronda
The city's existing curfew ordinance for minors would soon be repealed to give way to a new and more effective curfew ordinance.
This was agreed upon by the members of the City Council after Councilor Julienne 'Jam-jam' Baronda asked for several amendments on the ordinance in last Wednesday's regular session.
Baronda, however, was advised by Councilor Perla Zulueta to sponsor an ordinance next session repealing Ordinance 358 otherwise known as An Ordinance Prohibiting Minors to wander, saunter or loiter in any places specified herein after 11:00 pm and before 4:00 am and providing penalties thereof.
Zulueta told Baronda to come up with a new version of the curfew ordinance for minors.
Baronda had presented several amendments to the existing ordinance before.
Zulueta said it is better to author another ordinance with the same nature rather than making amendments in most part of the ordinance.
Amendments should be made only two or three times, Zulueta noted.
Baronda presented at least eight amendments in the ordinance in last week's session of the Sangguniang Panglungsod. She was cut short by her fellow councilors when she presented the amendments.
Baronda yielded to the advice of Zulueta and her fellow councilors to author a resolution repealing the curfew ordinance for minors and present a new version of the ordinance.
Recently, the implementation of the curfew ordinance elicited several legal questions. The queries range from the penalties and where to place the minors, whether inside the police detention or outside the police station or the offenders be put in the custody of the City Social Welfare and Development Office.
The different police precincts in the city are directed to impose the curfew ordinance in their districts. They are also asked to make a weekly report on minor offenders. Names of curfew violators were not reflected in the blotter entry of some police stations.
In the same ordinance, fines would be imposed on the owners of KTVs and beerhouses that allow the minors to stay in their establishments even during curfew hours.