21 laws aimed at bringing discipline back to Dagupan

By Jojo Rinoza

DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan – Motivated by President Duterte’s call for law and order, the mayor of this city has created a task force that will advocate and implement discipline among citizens with 21 city ordinances as their guide.

Mayor Belen Fernandez has called on her constituents and visitors of the city to cooperate in the strict observance of ordinances on public behavior and discipline – dubbed “Artikulong Beinte-Uno.”

With the creation of the city’s “Task Force Discipline,” there will be a massive information drive and campaign in every barangay to instill public discipline based on the 21 standing ordinances.

“           The task force’s mandate is to instill discipline in our people by persuading them as much as possible to observe the provisions of the ordinances,” explained the mayor.

“But when the need arises, as in the case of people who have constantly defied the law or those who have adamantly observed the law, then we have no choice but to enforce the true intent of the law,” she said.

“Artikulong Bente Uno: Disiplina Para Umasenso” prohibits: 1)  Littering; 2) Wearing of sando; sleeveless shirts; short pants; slippers while operating a PUV; 3) Spitting in public; 4) Urinating and defecating in places other than designated comfort rooms; 5) Vandalism; 6) Selling to liquor to minors; 7) Drinking liquor by a minor at any area; 8) Allowing rental of electronic video games by commercial establishments to children during school hours; 9) Admitting minors in the computer game houses and similar establishments; 10) permitting; inducing and abetting minors to play computer/video games during school days; 11) Allowing customers to engage in cybersex and cyber pornography; 12) Neglecting children by allowing them to roam the streets during curfew hours; 13) Soliciting; negotiating and purchasing sexual services; 14) Promoting or brokering the flesh trade;15) Smoking in public; 16) Operation of unenclosed videoke bars with sounds that are not contained beyond 7p.m.; 17) Unregistered Videoke machines; 18) Noise from any singing activity; 19) Drinking in public roads and sidewalks; 20) Allowing stray animals to roam around public places; and 21) Wandering the public places and streets whether naked or half-naked.