Review all ordinances approved by the Sangguniang Barangay and executive orders issued by the Punong Barangay to determine whether these are within the scope of the prescribed powers of the Sanggunian and of the Punong Barangay;
Maintain peace and order by enacting measures to prevent and suppress lawlessness, disorder, riot, violence, rebellion or sedition and impose penalties for the violation of said ordinances;
Approve ordinances imposing fines or imprisonment or both in the discretion of the court, for the violation of a municipal ordinances;
Adopts measures to protect the inhabitants of the municipality from the harmful effects of man-made or natural disasters and calamities and to provide relief services and assistance for victims during the aftermath of said disasters or calamities and their turn to production livelihood following said events;
Enact ordinances intended to prevent, suppress and impose appropriate penalties for habitual drunkenness in public places, vagrancy, mendicancy, prostitution, establishment and maintenance of houses of ill-refute, gambling and other prohibited games chance, fraudulent devices and ways to obtain money or property, drug addiction, maintenance of drug dens, drug pushing, juvenile delinquency, printing distribution or exhibition of obscene or pornographic materials or publications and such other activities inimical to the welfare and morals of the inhabitants of the municipality;
Protect the environment and impose appropriate penalties for acts which endanger the environment, such as dynamite fishing and other forms of destructive fishing, illegal logging and smuggling of logs, smuggling of natural resources products and of endangered species of flora and fauna, slash and burn farming, and such other activities which result in the pollution, acceleration of eutrophication of rivers and lakes, or of ecological imbalance;
Determine the powers and duties of officials and employees of the municipality;
Determine the positions and the salaries, wages, allowances and other emoluments and benefits of officials and employees paid wholly or mainly from municipal funds and provide for expenditures necessary for the proper conducts of the programs, projects, services, and activities of the municipal government;
Authorize the payment of compensation to a qualifies person not in the government service who fills up a temporary vacancy or grant honorarium to any qualified officials or employee designed to fill a temporary vacancy in a concurrent capacity at the rate authorized by law;
Provide a mechanism and he appropriate funds thereof, to ensure the safety and protection of all municipal government property, public documents, or records such as those relating to property inventory, public documents, or records such as those relating property inventory, land ownership, records of births, marriages, death, assessments, taxation, accounts, business permits, and such other records and documents of public interest in the offices and departments of the municipal government;
To provide for additional allowances and other benefits to judges, prosecutors, public elementary and high school teachers, and other national government officials stationed in or assigned to the municipality allow:
Provide for legal assistance to barangay officials who, in the performance of their official duties or in the occasion thereof, have to initiate judicial proceedings or defend themselves against legal action;
Provide for group insurance or additional insurance coverage for barangay officials, including members of barangay tanod brigades and other services units, with public or private insurance companies, when the finances of the municipal government allow said coverage;
Generate and maximize the use of resources and revenues for the development plans, program objectives and priorities of the municipality as provided for under Section 18 of the Local Government Code with particular attention to agro- industrial development and countryside growth and progress;
Approve the annual and supplemental budgets of the municipal government and appropriate funds for specific programs, projects, services and activities of the municipality, or for other purposes not contrary to law, in order to promote the general welfare of the municipality and its inhabitants;
Grants franchises, enact ordinances authorizing the issuance of permits or licenses or enact ordinances levying taxes, fees and charges upon such conditions and for Such purposes intended to promote the general welfare of the inhabitants of the municipality;
Regulate activities relative to the use of land, buildings and structures within the municipality in order to promote the general welfare of the public;
Approve ordinances which shall ensure the efficient and effective delivery of the basic services and facilities;
Provide for an efficient and effective system of solid waste and garbage collection and disposal and prohibit littering and the placing or throwing of garbage, refuse and other filth and wastes;
Approve measures and adopt quarantine regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of diseases.
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