Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

3927

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by Honorable Sherwin T. Gatchalian

EXPLANATORY NOTE

With the advent of industrialization and the continuing modernization of
our infrastructure facilities, new and modern highways were created to accelerate
travel and commercial linkages. One such facility was the North Luzon
Expressway (NLEX). By its creation, the NLEX now traverses through one of our
barangays in Valenzuela City, Barangay Canumay. It has in effect divided the
contiguous territory of said barangay.

By this effective separation, it became necessary to build two barangay
halls, a duplicate day care center was also built to accommodate the children of
the displaced portion of the barangay and the establishment of separate health
centers for easier access to medical care. Both territories likewise have two
separate grade school and high school facilities.

This physical separation necessitates the splitting of Barangay Canumay
into Canumay East and Canumay West to make governance immediate in its
response to constituency concerns and the delivery of public services
concentrated and adequate to the peculiar needs of each community and more
importantly making the two barangays distinct and independent from each other
with its own sources of revenue.

Section 386 paragraph (a) of R.A. 7160, also known as the Local
Government Code of 1991, provides that the creation of a new Barangay within
Metro Manila should qualify to the minimum requirements of at least 5,000
inhabitants and provides that the creation thereof shall not reduce the population
of the original barangay to less than the minimum requirement prescribed.

Based on the recent survey of the National Statistics Office (NSO), the
population of the Canumay West is more or less SIXTEEN THOUSAND FIVE
HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE (16,559) while Canumay East has a population of more or
less ELEVEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE. (11,633). Barangay


Canumay, Valenzuela City, has a land area of 296.8 hectares or 3,015,472.04
square meters, with a population of more or less twenty-eight thousand one
hundred ninety-two inhabitants.

In view of the foregoing, the support and approval of this initiative is
earnestly sought.



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 3927

Introduced by Representative Sherwin T. Gatchalian

AN ACT
DIVIDING BARANGAY CANUMAY INTO CANUMAY
WEST AND CANUMAY EAST, CITY OF VALENZUELA

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines of the
Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Dividing Barangay Canumay. - Barangay Canumay, located
in Valenzuela City shall be divided into two (2) barangays, to be known as
Canumay West and Canumay East.

SECTION 2. Conduct and Supervision of Plebiscite. - Pursuant to
Section 10 of Republic Act 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government
Code, the division of Barangay Canumay shall be effective upon approval by a
majority of the votes cast by the qualified voters in a plebiscite to be conducted
and supervised by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in the area affected,
within ninety (90) days from the effectivity of this Act.

The amount necessary for the conduct of such plebiscite shall be borne by
the City of Valenzuela.

SECTION 3. Barangay Officials. - The present elective Barangay Officials
of Barangay Canumay shall continue to perform their duties in the barangay of
which they are residents and registered voters. Such other appointive officers and
employees as maybe necessary to organize and complete the government
personnel of the two divided barangays shall be appointed as provided for under
existing laws.

‘The City Mayor may appoint the Punong Barangay and the members of the
Sangguniang Barangay, and the Sagguniang Kabataan Chairman and the
corresponding council where there are vacancies. Such officials shall hold office


until their successors shall have been elected in the regular elections for
barangay officials following the approval and ratification of this ordinance.

SECTION 4, Internal Revenue Allotment Shares. - Barangays Canumay
West and Canumay East shall be entitled to Internal Revenue allotment (IRA)
shares pursuant to Section 285 of Republic Act No. 7160 as amended otherwise
known as the Local Government Code.

SECTION 5. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after
its publication in any newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,