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    1987 Constitution - Article X: Local Government

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    This document outlines key provisions for local governments in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It establishes provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays as the territorial and political subdivisions. It provides for local autonomy and decentralization through mechanisms like recall, initiative, and referendum. The President exercises general supervision over local governments, while ensuring acts of component units are within their prescribed powers. Local governments have their own revenue sources and can levy taxes subject to guidelines. They also receive an automatic share of national taxes. Elective local officials serve three-year terms with a limit of three consecutive terms. Changes to local governments require approval in affected areas.

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    1987 Constitution - Article X: Local Government

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    This document outlines key provisions for local governments in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It establishes provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays as the territorial and political subdivisions. It provides for local autonomy and decentralization through mechanisms like recall, initiative, and referendum. The President exercises general supervision over local governments, while ensuring acts of component units are within their prescribed powers. Local governments have their own revenue sources and can levy taxes subject to guidelines. They also receive an automatic share of national taxes. Elective local officials serve three-year terms with a limit of three consecutive terms. Changes to local governments require approval in affected areas.

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    This document outlines key provisions for local governments in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It establishes provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays as the territorial and political subdivisions. It provides for local autonomy and decentralization through mechanisms like recall, initiative, and referendum. The President exercises general supervision over local governments, while ensuring acts of component units are within their prescribed powers. Local governments have their own revenue sources and can levy taxes subject to guidelines. They also receive an automatic share of national taxes. Elective local officials serve three-year terms with a limit of three consecutive terms. Changes to local governments require approval in affected areas.

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    1987 Constitution - Article X: Local Government

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    1987 Constitution - Article X

    Approved: 02 February 1987


    LOCAL GOVERNMENT
    GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Section 1. The territorial and political subdivisions of the Republic


    of the Philippines are the provinces, cities, municipalities, and
    barangays. There shall be autonomous regions in Muslim Mindanao
    and the Cordilleras as hereinafter provided.

    Section 2. The territorial and political subdivisions shall enjoy local


    autonomy.

    Section 3. The Congress shall enact a local government code which


    shall provide for a more responsive and accountable local
    government structure instituted through a system of
    decentralization with effective mechanisms of recall, initiative, and
    referendum xxxx.

    Section 4. The President of the Philippines shall exercise general


    supervision over local governments. Provinces with respect to
    component cities and municipalities, and cities and municipalities
    with respect to component barangays, shall ensure that the acts of
    their component units are within the scope of their prescribed
    powers and functions.

    Section 5. Each local government unit shall have the power to


    create its own sources of revenues and to levy taxes, fees and
    charges subject to such guidelines and limitations as the Congress
    may provide, consistent with the basic policy of local autonomy.
    Such taxes, fees, and charges shall accrue exclusively to the local
    governments.

    Section 6. Local government units shall have a just share, as


    determined by law, in the national taxes which shall be
    automatically released to them.
    Section 8. The term of office of elective local officials, except
    barangay officials, which shall be determined by law, shall be three
    years and no such official shall serve for more than three
    consecutive terms. Voluntary renunciation of the office for any
    length of time shall not be considered as an interruption in the
    continuity of his service for the full term for which he was elected.

    Section 10. No province, city, municipality, or barangay may be


    created, divided, merged, abolished, or its boundary substantially
    altered, except in accordance with the criteria established in the
    local government code and subject to approval by a majority of the
    votes cast in a plebiscite in the political units directly affected.

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