THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
S. No. 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VTLLAR, JR. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
In Section 17 of the Local Government Code, RA 7160, local government units shall 
exercise such other powers and discharge such other functions and responsibilities as are 
necessary, appropriate or incidental to efficient and effective provision of the basic services and 
facilities. Such basic services and facilities, include, for a barangay, satellite or public markets, 
where viable, and for both municipality and city, public markets. 
This is why, among the powers of the Sangguniang Barangay is the regulation of the use 
of barangay markets (Section 391 (7), RA 7160). Meanwhile, both the Sangguniang Bayan and 
the Sangguniang Panglungsod are empowered to approve ordinances which shall establish 
markets and authorize the operation thereof by the municipal or city government and regulate the 
construction of private markets, talipapas or other similar buildings and structures. (Secs. 447, 5, 
ii and 458,5, ii, RA 7160). 
To complement the above provisions, the Local Government Code authorizes both the 
Sangguniang Bayan and Sangguniang P&nglungsod to regulate the preparation and sale of meat, 
poultry, fish, vegetables, fruits, fresh dairy products, and other foodstuffs for public consumption. 
(Secs. 447, 5, iv and 458, 5, iv, RA 7160). 
It need not be stressed that public markets are responsive and effective instruments of 
public service. They are also dynamic and viable enterprises which strengthen the financial 
capabilities of cities, municipalities, and even barangays. Thus, their significant contribution to 
both national and local development. 
For the full realization of their,potential as such, there is a need for a law that will 
develop, regulate, and standardize market systems and professionalize market services in all 
public markets throughout the country, whether owned and managed by the government or by 
private groups and individuals. 
Thus, the attached bill which institutes a national market code for the Philippines. To 
attain the goal of clean and orderly marketplaces in every municipality, city, and where viable, 
barangay in the country, approval of the attached bill is respectklly urged. 
MANUEL B. VI LAR, JR. 
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THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VILLAR JR. 
AN ACT INSTITUTING A NATI~NAL MARKET CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. Name of the Act. - This Act shall be known and cited as the “National 
Market Code of the Philippines.” 
SEC. 2. General Objective. -- To complement and supplement the provisions of the Local 
Government Code, RA 7160, in relation to the establishment, regulation and maintenance of the 
public markets, it is the purpose of this Code to make public markets responsive and effective 
instrument of public service as well as dynamic and viable enterprises to strengthen the financial 
capabilities of cities, municipalities, and where feasible, barangays thus significantly contributing 
to national and local development, and towards this end, to develop, regulate, ad standardize 
market systems ad professionalize market services. 
SEC. 3. Scope of Application. - This Code shall govern all public markets as hereinafter 
defined, whether owned andor managed by the government or by private groups or individuals. 
SEC. 4. Definition of Terms. - The following definitions of terms shall be applicable in 
the interpretation of the provisions of this Code: 
(a) “Ambulants” are vendors who do not occupy a definite or permanent place or stall in 
the market who come to sell goods either daily or occasionally by sitting or moving 
place to place within the market premises. 


(b) A “bagsakan” area is basically an open area for the delivery of wholesal goods in bulk 
ad function as a transaction area among producers, wholesalers, and retailers. 
(c) A “cold storage” is a place where perishable goods are stored. Separate storage areas 
are to be provided for fish, meat, vegetables, ad fruits as storing them together tends 
to affect their taste and odor. 
(d) “Hawkers” refer to ambulant vendors who sell their wares on a one day basis. 
(e) An “ice storage” is a area that may be included in the market to supply the need for 
ice. 
(f) “Local government” refers to the province, city municipality or barangay. 
(g) “Local market authorities” refer to the city/municipality Mayor, his duly-appointed 
Market Administrator, the City/municipal Administrator, the city/municipal 
Treasurer, or ay other city/municipal official charged with the management of the day 
to day operations of the public market and/or specific aspects of such operations. 
(h) “Marine product” refer to fresh and dried fish, sea weeds, shell like mussels, clams, 
shrimps, lobster, and the like. 
(i) “Market premises” refer to any open space in the market buildings, usually occupied 
by transient vendors especially during market days, and the total area designated as 
the market place. 
(j) “Market sectioning” is grouping together in one section or zone in the market the 
same or similar goods, commodities or foodstuffs offered for sale. 
(k) “Market stall” refers to any allotted space or booth in the public market where 
merchandise of any kind‘is sold or offered for sale, and from which a regular fee is 
coIlected on a defined periodic basis. 
(1) “Peddler” means any person who, either for himself or on commission, travels from 
place to place and sells his goods or offers to sell ad delivers the same. 
(m)A “poultry dressing area” is an area servicing the poultry stalls in the wet section of 
the market. 


(n) A “public market” shall be understood to mean a place, building or structure of any 
kind owned or operated by a city or municipality designated as such by the 
Sanggunian of that city or municipality dedicated to the service of the general public, 
where basic food items and other commodities are displayed and offered for sale. 
“Public market” also includes market stalls, tiendas, buildings, roads, subways, 
waterways, drainage, parking spaced and other appurtenances which are integral 
thereto. 
(0) “Rental fee” means a charge fixed by law or agency, whether in money or otherwise, 
given for the enjoyment or us6 of a thing. 
(p) “Slaughterhouse” refers to a place designated by law to kill, clean, and cut-up animals 
for human consump tion. 
(9) “Special Markets” as used herein shall refer to auction markets for fish, livestock, 
vegetables and other products, and single commodity markets, located in production 
areas serving as resources-based wholesale centers. 
(r) “Stallholders” refers to those who have been granted the right to use one or more 
stalls, where they can display or sell their goods, commodities or foodstuffs, and pay 
rentals thereon. 
(s) “Support facilities” shall be understood to refer to service areas directly supportive of 
market operations, including the “bagsakan” area, central collection station for 
wastes, poultry dressing area, ice storage facilities, cold storage and storage rooms, 
toilets, parking spaces, slaughterhouses, warehouses and trading posts. 
(t) “Trading post” refers to a wholesale resource-based area near production and 
consumption areas to facilitate the distribution of livelihood products; no physical 
exchange of products, only transactions such as payments, inquiry and briefings 
would be done. 
(u) A “vendor” shall mean a person who sells, commodities or foodstuffs, within the 
market premises. 


(v) “Warehouse” is a building or structure where the process or receiving, storing and 
delivering of goods take place. Distribution is a function of warehousing which 
include the preparation and delivery of goods according to plan or special order. 
TITLE 11. - BASIC POLICIES AND REGULATIONS 
Chapter I. LOCATION, ESTABLISHMENT & CONSTRUCTION 
Sec. 5. Site - No public market of any kind shall be established in sites determined in 
accordance with the National Building Code, zoning laws, and applicable local ordinances. In 
any case no such public market shall be established beside a national or local road if it is deemed 
to cause traffic congestion due to the absence of ample parking space within the vicinity of the 
market area. 
Sec. 6. Establishment Requiremeht. - Subject to permit or licensing requirement of the 
local government unit concerned, the design and construction of every public market shall be in 
accordance with the provisions of existing laws. 
Sec. 7. Number of Markets. - The total Sanggunian shall determine the number of public 
markets to be established in the city/municipdity, whether owned/or managed by the government 
or by private groups or individuals based on the needs of both consumers and traders in the area, 
and considering the economic viability of such public markets. 
Chapter 2. - SANITATION 
SEC. 8. Cleanliness and Sanitation. - All markets and their premises must at all times be 
kept clean and in sanitary condition to safeguard the health and safety of the buying as well as the 
stall owners, vendors and market personnel. Facilities for sanitation and maintenance, such as 
cleaning and elimination of harborages of vermin shall be provided. 
SEC. 9. Sanitation Unit. - All markets must have a sanitation unit with an adequate 
number of personnel to ensure efficient operation in the maintenance of cleanliness and 
sanitation within the market and its premises. The cleaning of markets and their premises shall 
be done daily and as often as may be necessary. 
Individual stall ownerdvendors shall keep and maintain their stalls in clean and sanitary 
condition. They shall likewise be responsible for the cleanliness of the passageways, alleys or 


spaces immediately in front or behind or by the side of their stalls. In cooperation with local 
market authorities and personnel, market vendors and stall owners shall be responsible for the 
general cleanliness and sanitation of the market and its premises. 
SEC. 10. Facilities Required to be Provided. - There shall be proper and adequate 
drainage and sewerage systems to ensure cleanliness and sanitation. Appropriate facilities to 
abate pollution shall be installed. 
SEC. 11. Water and Drinking Facilities. - All markets shall have available ample water 
for cleaning. There shall be separate drinking facilities to prevent contamination. 
SEC. 12. Public Toilets. - Public toilets with adequate lavatories, at least one for men and 
another for women, shall be provided and installed in strict conformity with the Sanitation Code 
and the same shall at all times be kept clean and sanitary. 
SEC. 13. “No Littering” Signs. - “No Littering” signs shall be posted in conspicuous 
places to warn vendors and buyers that the same is punishable by law. 
SEC. 14. Number and Type of Garbage Receptacles. - All markets shall be provided with 
the large garbage receptacles of the fly-and-rat proof type for the collection of all the garbage and 
rubbish in the market and its premises. Irm addition, adequate garbage cans shall be placed at 
strategic places for the garbage and rubbish of the buyers, ambulant vendors and market 
personnel. Likewise all stall owners and vendors shall be required to have individual garbage 
cans. 
SEC. 15. Purpose of Cover. - AI1 garbage cans must be properly covered to keep from 
becoming the breeding places of flies, rats, mosquitoes and other insects. 
SEC. 16. “Use of Garbage Cans” Signs. - “Keep Our Premises Clean”, “Use Garbage 
Cans” signs shall be placed at the entrance, in passageways and in places where garbage are 
collected. 
SEC. 17. Disposal of Garbage. - It shall be the responsibility of the individual stall 
owner and vendors to dispose of their garbage at the end of each day by placing them in the 
receptacle referred to in Section 15 thereof. However, the disposal of the garbage of the buying 
public, ambulant vendors and the market personnel shall be the responsibility of the local market 


authorities. The waste dumping area of disposed garbage shall be located at a convenient place 
wherein garbage collectors/trucks shall have access to collect them. Solid waste from each 
stallholder shall be transferred to the central dumping area to facilitate efficient solid waste 
management. 
SEC. 18. Time for Collection and Disposal of Garbage. - All the garbage and rubbish of 
the market must be collected and disposed of at appropriate schedules to be determined by the 
local market authorities. 
SEC. 19. Meat and Meat Products. - All meat and meat products shall be inspected 
pursuant to existing laws and local ordinances. 
SEC. 20. Sale ofMarine Products. -- Only fresh, live and wholesome fish and marine 
products or dried, salted, smoked, or fermented fish and marine products which are safe for 
consumption shall be sold. Fish and other marine products caught in radioactive zones as well as 
in areas contaminated by toxic substances or high in mercury count as determined by the 
Department of Health (DOH) in coordination with the Bureu of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources 
(BFAR) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), shall be condemned and shall not be 
allowed for sale. 
SEC. 21. Protection and Preservation of Food. - All foods which require no hrther 
cooking shall be wrapped, covered, or enclosed in containers to preserve their freshness and 
prevent contamination. 
SEC. 22. Applicability of Code on Sanitation. - (1) All provisions of the Code on 
Sanitation shall, whenever applicable, be observed by and enforced upon public markets and all 
establishments therein and their respective personnel. 
(2) Special effort shall be exerted to strictly observe and enforced the provisions of said 
Code of Sanitation relating to water supply, food establishments, sewage collection and disposal, 
excrete disposal and drainage, and refuse disposal. 


Chapter 3. - SECURITY AND SAFETY 
SEC. 23. Market Hours. - All public markets shall be opened and closed at certain hours 
as may be determined by the Sanggunian of the local unit concerned, in accordance with the 
requirements of safety, order and sanitation. 
SEC. 24. Proper Identijication. - All market personnel shall be required to display 
conspicuously an identification card or other means of identification prescribed by the 
city/municipality concerned. 
SEC. 25. Security Unit. - The city/municipality shall provide adequate security for the 
protection of consumers and traders within the vicinity of the market area. 
SEC. 26. Losses of Stallholders. - The city/municipality shall not be responsible for any 
loss or damage which stallholders or vendors may incur in the city/municipality markets by 
reasons of fire or force majeure. 
The total market authorities, however, shall encourage 
stallholders to ensure their commodities. 
Chapter 4. - SERVICE AREA/FACILITIES 
SEC. 27. Storage Areas. - Storage facilities such as those intended for ice and cold 
storage shall be appropriate situated to facilitate efficient storage and distribution of ice and 
perishable goods delivered to the market. 
SEC. 28. Ramps and Stairways. - Ramps shall be strategically located for purposes of 
visibility, near the approach point to the market structure, and shall conform to the provisions of 
the existing accessibility law which requires buildings, institutions, establishments and public 
utilities to install facilities and other devices to enhance the mobility of disabled persons. They 
shall provide convenient to related market functional activities. 
Regular stairways shall 
complement the market system. 
SEC. 29. Market Aisles. - To facilitate mobility, security and safety at all times, market 
aisles shall be free from any obstructions. Market officials and personnel and policemen detailed 
in the vicinity of the city/municipality markets shall exercise strict vigilance on this matter and 
enjoin strict compliance with these provisions. 


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SEC. 30. Weighing Scales. - The city/municipality shall provide weighing scales for the 
use of the consumers to safeguard them against shortweighing of commodities like rice, fish, 
meat, etc. It shall be located in conspicuous and strategic points in the public market. 
Chapter 5. - AWARD AND OCCUPANCY OF STALLS 
SEC. 31. Award, How Made. - Award or jurisdiction of newly constructed or vacant 
stalls shall be made pursuant to the provisions of this code. 
SEC. 32. Market Committee. - There is hereby in each city/municipality a Market 
Committee, whose duty it shall be to conduct the drawing of lots and opening of bids in 
connection with the adjudication of vacant or newly constructed stalls or booths in the 
city/municipality markets as prescribed herein, and to certify to the Sanggunian concerned, the 
results thereof. 
In the chartered cities, the Committee shall be composed of the City Mayor or his duly 
authorized representative as Chairman, and the following as members: 
a representative of the City Treasurer; 
a representative of the Sanggunian 
a representative of the City Legal Officer or a representative of the City 
Prosecutor in case there is no City Legal Officer; and 
a representative of the Market Vendors chosen by them from among their 
members. In the municipalities, the Municipal Mayor or his duly authorized 
representative shall be the Chairman and the following as members: (a) a 
representative of the Municipal Treasurer; 
a representative of the Sanggunian; 
a representative of the Municipal Legal Officer, if there be any, or a 
representative of the Provincial Prosecutor in case there is no Municipal Legal 
Officer; and 
a representative of the market vendors chosen by them from among their 
members. 


In case where the deliberations of the Market Committee result in a tie vote, the 
Chairman shall break the tie. 
SEC. 33. Tu Whom Award May Be Made. - (1) No person shall operate a market stall 
without first securing the permits required by the city/municipality where the market is located. 
All applications for the award of stall shall be filled in the office of the local market authorities. 
(2) No person shall sell, offer for sale or epose any article or articles in any public market 
os use or occupy any stall without first having been assigned to such stall in the manner 
prescribed herein. Residents of the city or municipality shall be given preference in the 
occupancy or lease of stalls over non-resident applicants at the time of the awarding of the stalls. 
(3) Vendors shall be assigned a stall according to the nature of the merchandise intended 
for sale. 
(4) Stallholders shall not be allowed to occupy stall or spaces other than those leased to 
them, and it shall be the duty of the market administrator or his duly authorized representative to 
see to it that the stallholders do not occupy other stalls or spaces. 
SEC. 34. Subleasing of Selling Privilege Not Allowed. -- No awardee shall sublet or 
sublease the stall so awarded nor shall any privilege acquired be sold. Any person other than the 
stallholder found selling in the latter's stall shall be considered prima facie evidence of subleasing 
and shall subject the stallholder to outright revocation of his lease award. 
SEC. 35. Limit on Number of Stalls Awardable. -- No person shall be allowed to lease 
more than two stalls: Provided, That when two stalls are leased to one person, such stalls shall 
adjoin one another and shall be allocated in the same section of the market and Provided finally; 
That it shall be a violation of this Section for more than one member of a family consisting of the 
father, mother, sons and daughters to hold stalls in one market unless these sons and daughters 
are already of age and living by themselves and independently of their parents. 
SEC. 36. Duration of Lease. -- The duration of lease of a market stall in government 
owned public markets shall be determinld by the local Sangguniang and shall be incorporated in 
the lease contract to be executed for such purpose. 


SEC. 37. Revocation of Lease. -- The revocation of lease contract of stallholders shall be 
effected for cause or causes to be determined by the local Sanggunian. Such provisions shall 
likewise be incorporated in the lease contract to be executed for such purpose. 
SEC. 38. Adjudication of Vacant Stalls to Applicants. -- Vacant stalls shall be leased to 
applicants in the following manner: 
(a) Notice of vacancy of the stalls or booths shall be posted for a period of not less than 
ten (10) days prior to the date of actual award to qualified applicants to apprise the public of the 
fact that such stalls or booths are vacant and available for lease. Such notice shall be posted in 
the bulletin board of the market concerned. 
An application fee shall be collected from each applicant to cover the necessary expenses 
and any excess thereof shall form part of the general hnd of the city/municipality concerned. 
(b) The application should be made under oath. It shall be submitted to the Office of the 
local market authorities concerned by the applicant either in person or through hisher authorized 
representative. 
(c) It shall be the duty of the local market authorities to keep a registry book showing the 
names and addresses of all applicants for vacant stalls or booths, the number and description of 
the stallhooth applied for by them, and the date and hour of receipt of each application. It shall 
be also the duty of the local market authorities to acknowledge receipt of the application setting 
forth therein the time and date of receipt thereof. 
(d) Applicants who are Filipino citizens shall have preference in the lease of public 
market stalls. If on the last day set for filing applications, there is no application from Filipino 
citizens, the posting of the notice of vacancy prescribed above shall be reported for another ten 
(10) day period. If after the expiration of that period there is still no Filipino applicant the stall 
affected may be leased to any alien application who filed his application first. If there are several 
alien applicants, the adjudication of the stall shall be through the drawing of lots to be conducted 
by the Market Committee. In case there is only one Filipino applicant, the stall or booth applied 
for shall be adjudicated to him. If there are several Filipino applicants for the same stall, 
adjudication shall be made through the drawing of lots to be conducted by the Market Committee 


on the date and hour specified in the notice. The result of the drawing of lots shall be reported 
immediately by the Committee to the Sanggunian for appropriate action. 
(e) The successful applicant shall h i s h  the city/municipal treasurer two copies of his or 
her picture immediately after the award of the lease. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to affix 
one copy of the picture to the application and other copy to the record card kept for that purpose. 
SEC. 39. Effect of Death of Lessee. -- Upon the death of the holder of a stall, the contract 
of lease covering said stall shall be deemed terminated. However, i f  the deceased leaves a 
surviving spouse or legal heirs who are not disqualified under the provision of this Code, and 
who desire to continue the business of the deceased, the lease may be transferred to the 
deceased's spouse or legal heirs upon application therefor; 
Provided, That the local market authorities shall be notified within 30 days after the death 
of the original lessee of the desire of the spouse or legal heirs to succeed and upon payment of all 
necessary rents or lease due at the time of the original lessee. 
Chapter 6. - COLLECTION AND USE OF MARKETS FEES 
SEC. 40. Market Fees. -- The city/municipality may collect fees or rentals for the 
occupancy or use of any part of a government-owned public market or its premises in accordance 
with existing laws. Subject to the provisions of the Local Government Code, the rental rates or 
fees shall be determined by the local Sanggunian in accordance with the actual requirements for 
the maintenance of the public market and the sustenance of its economic viability. 
SEC. 41. .Subdivision of Market Building and Rates of Fees and Rentals Therefor. -- The 
public market shall be subdivided into sections with each section housing one class or group of 
allied goods; commodities or merchandise: The local Sanggunian shall fix for each section, 
reasonable rates of fees or rentals per square meter or space per month and/or day. 
In case there are several market buildings, or pavilions, each one of them shall be given a 
number or other designation for better identification. 
SEC. 42. Rentals For Fired Stalls, Booths and Tiendas. -- Rentals for fixed stalls, booths, 
and tiendas shall be fixed by the month to be paid within the first ten days of each month. The 
fixed stall, booths and tiendas situated in the best locations shall be assigned higher rates per 


square meter than those less favorably locate. Provided, That said higher rates per square meter 
shall be within the range of such rates determined by the local Sanggunian as provided in Sec. 42 
hereof. 
SEC. 43. Market Fees for the Occupancy of Market Premises. -- The market fees for the 
occupancy of market premises shall be fixed at such reasonable rate per day per square meter of 
space occupied therein, or a fraction thereof. 
SEC. 44. Market Entrance Fee. -- In lieu of the regular market fees based on the space 
occupied, a market entrance fee may be imposed on all transient vendors of any commodity or 
merchandise being brought into the public market for sale on the basis of weight, bundle, sack, 
can, cartload, or any other convenient unit of measure. The amount of entrance fee to be imposed 
shall not exceed the amount of market fee that would be collectible if the fee were charged on the 
basis of space occupied by the said commodity or merchandise, as provided in the immediately 
preceding section. 
SEC. 45. Payment of Fees. -- Unless otherwise provided herein, the market fee must be 
paid in advance before any person can sell, or offer to sell, any commodity or merchandise within 
the public market and its premises. 
SEC. 46. Issuance of Cash Tickets of Transient Vendors; Prohibition on Transfer 
Thereof. -- Cash tickets shall be issued to the vendor buying the same and his name, date and 
signature of the collector shall be written on the back thereof. The cash tickets shall pertain only 
to the person buying the same and shall be good only for the space or spaces of the market 
premises to which they are assigned while in the hands of the original purchaser. If a vendor 
disposes of his merchandise by wholesale to another vendor, the latter shall purchase new tickets 
if he desires to sell the same merchandise even if this is done in the same place occupied by the 
previous vendor. 
Cash tickets shall be provided with serial numbers by the Office of the CityMunicipal 
Treasurer which shall monitor the issuance of the cash tickets in collaboration with the Market 
Administrator. 


SEC. 47. Allocation of Collected Market Fees. -- After deducting statutory or contractual 
obligations, a minimum of fifty percent (50%) of the remainder of the income of the public 
market owned by the government shall be reserved and set aside as a capital and management 
development fund for the maintenance and improvement of the market and for staff 
development. The balance shall accrue to the general fund of the local unit concerned. , 
SEC. 48. Duties of a City or Municipal Treasurer. -- The CityMunicipal Treasurer shall 
be limited to the collection, custody, and proper disbursement of fees and other income of the 
public market, and furnishing collection reports to the Market Administrator, provisions of 
existing laws to the contrary notwithstanding. The administration, supervision and control of the 
public market shall be vested in such bodies or officials as may be provided for by the 
Sanggunian concerned. 
Chapter 7. - SPECIAL MARKETS 
SEC. 49. Special Regulations. -- The provisions of the foregoing chapters of this Code 
may be treated differently from other markets and shall be subject to such ordinances regarding 
location, establishment, and security as may be provided for by the Sanggunian concerned. 
Chapter 8. - RESTRICTION 
SEC. 50. Rules of Conduct. -- (1) The Sanggunian shall promulgate such rules of conduct 
as may be applicable within the market premises to render efficient market management and 
operations. 
(2) The names and pictures of persons authorized by stallholders to help them in their 
daily business shall be registered with the office of the local market authorities. 
SEC. 51. Peddling and Hawking. -- (1) No person shall peddle, hawk, offer for sale or 
expose for sale any articles in the passageways or aisles used by purchasers in any city/municipal 
markets. 
(2) Local market authorities shall designate appropriate areas within the market premises 
which peddlers and hawkers can occupy. Neither shall they be permitted to expose or sell 
merchandise on sidewalks, courts (patios) or places designated and/or intended for the passage of 
the public to the city/municipal markets. Market officials and personnel and policemen detailed 


in the vicinity of the city/municipal markets shall ,,exercise strict compliance with these 
provisions. 
SEC. 52. Dispensing and .Serving of Intoxicating Drinks. -- No person shall drink, serve 
or dispense liquor or any intoxicating drink within the premises of any city/municipal market. 
Any violation hereof shall subject the offender to the penal provisions of this Code and his or her 
lease award shall be subject to revocation. 
SEC. 53. Loose Animals. -- The local markkt authorities shall make sure that no dogs or 
other animals are left astray in the premises of the city/municipality. 
SEC. 54. Illegal Construction. -- The construction of living quarters, within the market 
premises shall not be allowed. 
SEC. 55. Ejected Stallholders Disqualified to Participate In The Drawing of Lots. -- After 
due notice and hearing should a stallholder be ejected from his/her stall/booth, forecause, as 
provided in this Code, he/she shall be disqualified from subsequently tiling another application 
for the lease of any stallhooth in the public market of the city/municipality. 
SEC. 56. Prohibitions. -- (1) No lessee shall remove, construct, and alter the original 
structure of any booth or booths or electrical wiring or water connection without prior permit 
from the local market authorities ' approved by the city/municipal building official. Any 
unauthorized construction shall be subject to demolition by local authorities. Dwelling in stall or 
any place within the market premises shall be strictly prohibited. 
(2) No stallholder in the public market shall be allowed to store gasoline and crude oil. 
TITLE III. - ADMINISTRATION 
Chapter 1. - LOCAL ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC MARKETS 
SEC. 57. Local Advisory Committee. -- In each city or municipality, the Mayor may 
create a Local Advisory Committee to be composed of representatives from the government and 
private sectors to assist him and the Sanggunian in the formulation of policies to enhance the 
efficiency of market operations. 
Chapter 2. - MARKET PERSONNEL 


SEC. 58. Market Administrator. -- The Market Administrator shall exercise direct and 
immediate supervision, administration and control over local government owned/operated public 
markets and the personnel thereof including those whose duties concern the maintenance, 
upkeep, peace and order of the market premises, subject to the supervision of the CityMunicipal 
Treasurer in accordance with existing laws, local ordinances and other rules and/or regulations 
pertinent thereto insofar as collection, remittance, and reporting of collections are concerned. 
Actual collection activities, however, shall be supervised by the Market Administrator including 
the assignment of market collectors therein. 
SEC. 59. Powers and. Functions of the Market Administrator. -- The Market 
Administrator shall: 
(a) Exercise general supervision over the management and operation of public markets; 
(b) Enforce all laws, rules and regulations affecting public market management and 
operations; 
(c) Assist in the formulation of the budget for operations of the city/municipal public 
market prior to submission to the Sanggunian; 
(d) Propose and coordinate plans and programs for public markets, including market 
linkages; 
(e) Propose the imposition of nbw adjusted market fees to the Sanggunian based on 
standards set forth in this Code; and 
(f) Prepare monthly financial statements in collaboration with the CityMunicipal 
Treasurer indicating market income and expenses to be submitted to the Mayor and the 
S anggunian. 
SEC. 60. Other Market Personnei. -- Other officials and employees of the public market 
shall be determined by the Sanggunian in accordance with existing laws. 
TITLE IV. - PENAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 61. Penalty for Prohibited Acts. -- Any person violating, or causing, inducing, or 
abetting the violation of any prohibitory provision of this Code shall, upon conviction of the 


court suffer the penalty of arresto menor or a fine not exceeding two hundred pesos (P200.00), 
and, in case of recidivism, the penalty of arresto mayor or a fine ranging from two hundred ( 
P200.00) to six thousand pesos ( P6,OOO.OO). 
SEC. 62. .Selling Confiscated Goods. -- Any law enforcement officer or public 
market security guards who confiscates goods from any vendor, ambulant or otherwise, 
and sells or offers these goods for sale by himself or through a third persodpersons, shall upon 
conviction of the court, suffer: 
(1) The penalty of prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods, if the value 
involved does not exceed two hundred pesos (P200.00). 
(2) The penalty of prision mayor in 'its minimum and medium periods, if the value 
involved is more than two hundred pesos (P200.00) but does not exceed six thousand 
pesos (P 6,000.00). 
(3) The penalty of prision mayor in its maximum period to reclusion temporal in its 
minimum period, if the value involved is more than six thousand pesos (P6,OOO.OO) but is less 
than twelve thousand pesos (P 12,000.00). 
(4) The penalty of reclusion temporal in its medium and maximum periods if the value 
involved is more than twelve thousand pesos (P12,OOO.OO) but is less than twenty two thousand 
pesos (P22,OOO.OO). If the amount exceeds the latter, the penalty shall be recIusion temporal 'nits 
maximum period to reclusion perpetua. 
In all cases, persons guilty of selling or offering to sell confiscated goods shall also suffer 
a fine equal to the total value of the goods confiscated and sold or offered to be sold. 
The failure of any law enforcement officer or public rnhrket security guard who 
confiscated goods form any vendor, ambulant or otherwise, to have duly account any goods 
confiscated by him upon demand by any duly. authorized officers,. shall be prima facie evidence 
that he has sold the unaccounted confiscated goods, 
SEC. 63. Weights and Measures. --- Any stallholder found violating the provisions of 
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any deficiency in said weights or measures, severely warned 
second offense, hisher stall lease shall be subject to revocation. 
andor reprimanded and for the 
SEC. 64. Dummies -- Any person who acts as dummy for another in connection with the 
enjoyment of any privileges provided in this Code shall be subject to the penalty provided in 
Section 62 hereof. 
TITLE V. - TRAhSITORY AND FINAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 65. Existing Public Market Buildings and Support Facilities. -- All public market 
buildings and support facilities constructed under existing laws or existing city or municipal 
building codes or ordinances, if legally done in accordance therewith, shall be respected subject 
to such limitations established in this code. 
SEC. 66. Barangay Markets. -- Barangay Governments are hereby authorized to establish 
their own barangay markets subject to the same rules and policies provided in this Code. 
SEC. 67. Administrative Authority of the Secretary of Local Government -The Secretary 
of Local Government is hereby authorized to issue rule and regulations for the smooth and 
effective implementation of this Code, provisions of existing laws to the contrary 
notwithstanding. 
SEC. 68. Separability Clause. -- If for any reason or reasons, any part or provisions of this 
Code shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid other parts or provisions hereof which are not 
affected thereby shall continue to be in full force and effect. 
SEC. 69. Repealing Clause. -- All laws, executive orders, decrees, regulations or 
ordinances, or parts thereof, inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed or modified accordingly. 
SEC. 70. Effectivity. -- This Code shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication 
in the Official Gazette or in two newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved,