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Monday, November 24, 2003
125 violate Building Code
By Christine Mae A. Pelayo
BUILDING owners' failure to secure building and occupancy permits from the City Government raised the number of recorded violations to the Building Code this year, according to reports from the Office of the Building Official.
Establishments committed 125 infractions to the Code from May to mid-November this year.
Assistant City Engineer Teresita Guadalupe, concurrent officer-in-charge of the Office of the Building Official, said they have conducted continuous inspections on buildings for compliance to the Building Code of the Philippines.
Structures inspected include boarding houses, hotels, pension houses, dormitories, motels and appartels, among others.
Of the violators, 17 establishment owners have settled their violations while some boarding house owners still failed to comply with specified building requirements.
Part of their inspection is to determine whether these buildings and structures install hidden or spy cameras.
The City Council and City Mayor's Office earlier eyed the creation of an ordinance for the purpose.
Of the more than 10,000 business establishments to be inspected, the Licensing and Permits Division have on their record 79 boarding houses, 17 hotels, 15 pension houses, 11 lodging houses, nine dormitories, four motels and one appartel.
Annual safety inspection
Guadalupe said their office also regularly conducts Annual Safety Inspection for commercial, educational and industrial buildings.
Residential buildings are exempted from the inspection.
She cited Section No. 301 of the National Building Code, on permits and inspections providing that, "no person or a corporation including any agency or instrumentality of the government shall erect, construct, alter, repair, convert or demolish any building or structure without first obtaining building permit from the Building Official assigned in their place where the subject building is located."
Guadalupe added "this is a presidential decree that all buildings, residential, commercial, educational, institutional, industrial and agricultural are subject for compliance of the Building Code."
Mayor Luzviminda Valdez earlier issued Memorandum Order No. 43 stating that all business establishments are required to undergo safety inspection before the renewal of their business permit on January 20.
(November 21, 2003 issue)
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