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Public Office
Right, authority and duty created and conferred by law, by which
for a given period, either fixed by law or enduring at the pleasure
of the appointing power, an individual is invested with some portion
of the sovereign functions of the government, to be exercised by
him for the benefit of the public.
Charge, station or employment conferred by appointment or
election by a government.
Public Office is a public trust
Public office are created for effecting the end
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General Principles
Modes of acquiring title to public office
Modes and kinds of appointment
Eligibility and qualification requirements
Disabilities and inhibitions of public officers
Powers and duties of public officers
Rights of public officers
Liabilities of public officers
a. Preventive suspension and back salaries
b. Illegal dismissal, reinstatement and back
salaries
Immunity of public officers
De factor officers
Termination of official relation
The Civil Service
a. Scope
b. Appointments to the civil service
c. Personnel actions
d. Uniform rules on administrative cases in the
civil service
Accountability of public
a. Impeachment
b. Ombudsman (Secs 5 14, Article XI of the
1987 Constitution in relation to RA 6770, or
otherwise known as The Ombudsman Act of
1989)
i. Jurisdiction and Functions
ii. Administrative Penalties
iii. Appeal and Judicial Review
Administrative Law
A. General principles
B. Administrative agencies
a. Definition
b. Manner of creation
c. Kinds
C. Powers of administrative agencies
a. Quasi-legislative (rule-making) power
i. Kinds of administrative rules and
regulations
ii. Requisites for validity
b. Quasi-judicial (adjudicatory) power
i. Administrative due process
ii. Administrative res judicata
c. Fact-finding, investigative, licensing and
fate-fixing powers
D. Judicial recourse and review
a. Doctrine
of
primary
administrative
jurisdiction
b. Doctrine of exhaustion of administrative
remedies
c. Doctrine of finality of administrative action
Election Law
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Suffrage
Qualification and disqualification of voters
Registration of voters
Inclusion and exclusion proceedings
Political parties
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Notes for Administrative Law, Law on Public Officers and Election Law
Atty. R. Raypon | S. Bance
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f. Quo warranto
g. Prosecution of election offenses
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