SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES) 
First Regular Session 
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Introduced by SENATOR FERDINAND R. MARCOS, JR. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Republic Act 7160, otherwise known os the Local Government Code of 
1991, was enacted 22 years ago. Since then, many of its provisions have not 
been keeping pace with many changes and challenges of local governance 
and autonomy, thereby necessitating an imperative review of the present 
mandate that needs to adjust to the current times. 
When the Local Government Code of 1991 was amended through 
Republic Act 9009 which was enacted on February 24, 2001, the income 
requirement for a municipality or cluster of barangays to be converted into a 
component city was increased from Twenty Million Pesos (P20,000,000.00) to 
One Hundred Million (P 1 00,000,000.00) Pesos for the last two consecutive years 
based on 2000 constant prices. 
This 
adjustment 
however, 
failed 
to 
make 
the 
necessary 
and 
corresponding increase in the income requirement for highly urbanized cities, 
which at present, is still pegged at Fifty Million (PSO,OOO,OOO.OO) Pesos, as 
provided for under Section 452 ot the Locol Government Code of 1991. This 
results to an incongruous situation where the income requirement for a 
component city is even much higher than a highly urbanized city. 
Thus to 
remedy the situation, this measure is being introduced. 
This bill proposes to correspondingly increase the locally generated 
average annual income requirement for the creation of a highly urbanized city 
to One Hundred Fifty Million (P 150,000,000.00) Pesos. 
Early approval of this bill is hereby earnestly requested. 
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FERDINAND . MARCOS, JR. 


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SENATE 
S. B. NO. 407 
Introduced by SENATOR FERDINAND R. MARCOS, JR. 
AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 452 OF REPUBLIC ACT 7160 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS 
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF 1991, BY INCREASING THE LOCALLY 
GENERATED AVERAGE ANNUAL INCOME REQUIREMENT FOR THE CREATION OF A 
HIGHLY URBANIZED CITY 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
Philippines in Congress assembled: 
Section 1. Section 452 of Republic Act No. 71 60 is hereby amended to 
read as follows: 
Section 452. Highly Urbanized Cities. 
(a) Cities with a minimum population of two hundred 
thousand (200,000) inhabitants as certified by the National 
Statistics Office, and with the latest LOCALLY GENERATED 
AVERAGE annual income of at least [Fifty] ONE HUNDRED FIFTY 
Million Pesos (P150,OOO,OOO.OO) based on [1991)2010 constant 
prices, as certified by the city treasurer, shall be classified as 
highly urbanized cities. 
(b) Cities which do not meet above requirements shall be 
considered component cities of the province in which they 
ore geographically located. If a component city, is located 
within the boundaries of two (2) or more province,s, such city 
shall be considered a component of the province of which it 
used to be a municipality. 
(c) Qualified voters of highly urbanized cities shall remain 
excluded from voting for elective provincial officials. 
Unless otherwise provided in the Constitution or this Code, 
qualified voters of independent component cities shall be 
governed by their respective charters, as arnended, on the 
participation of voters in provincial elections. 
Qualified voters of cities who acquired the right to vote for 
elective provincial officials prior to the classification of said 
cities as 
highly-urbanized after the ratification of the 
Constitution and before the effectivity of this Code, shall 
continue to exercise such right. 


Section 2. 
Repealing Clause. 
All laws, decrees, orders, rules and 
regulations, and other issuances or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this 
Act, are hereby repealed or modified accordingly. 
Section 3. This Act shall take effect thirty (30) days after its publication in 
two (2) national newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved.