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This pertains to your letter-query seeking our legal opinion on the following
issues, to wit:
For your ready reference, please find the enclosed copy of the Opinion.
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O5 September 2O07
IION. AMAI}O K. GO
Sangguniang Panlalawigan F{ernber
Provincial CaPitol Bttilding
Tarlac City
Dear Sir:
This issue arose when, trased on DILO Opinion ftos' 114' s'
1994'
and 245, s. 1992, where this Departnrent opined that the
Vice Mayor or Vice
purpose but
Oovemor may chair a sPealal committee created for a special
Rules of Procedure
cannot head a regular comrlrittee, the previous Internal
(lRP) of the previous Sangguniang Panlalawigan of that
province explicitly
prohibited the Presiding Oit'ltout to chair or be a rnember
of any regula-r
committee brnt atlowed hiln to chair special or Ad H€c
committees'
Ure Vice Qovernor' as
Different \iiews th,en crtlppe'r'l uP. Fbr instance' that
because there is no
Presiding Officer is allowea t'o lrold a regular comrnittee'
fle;nce' your query'
suclr protrlbition under the [,ocal Ciovernment Code'
be answered
ln rePly thereto, pleai'e be intbrmed that your query carl
to show you how we
from the pioui"iorr" of your Adopted IKP' Allow us then
came uP vrith such concluslon'
gst expresslo
applginE the legal tw'wxim exPressio 141\ Iys uf one thinE
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cc: Direct()rJosefinaCastilla'Otr
DILO Regional Oflice No. Oi'
San fernando CitY. PamPatt{|lJ