BACOLOD City Councilor Caesar Distrito urged the City Legal Office (CLO)-Enforcement Team and Permits and Licensing Division to file criminal charges against the business owner who was found using a fake permit.
Distrito, chairperson of the City Council committee on laws, said Thursday, November 15, that those who are using a fake business permit should be subjected to a filing of criminal cases of falsification of documents.
On Tuesday, November 13, the CLO-Enforcement Team and Permits and Licensing Division padlocked two business establishments for operating without business permits in the city.
Read: Bacolod padlocks 2 firms without business permits
The establishment owners were already given enough time to comply their business permits but they failed to process it.
Distrito said the law should be applied to all and the Permits and Licensing Division should require all business establishments to secure a business permit.
“I commend the CLO and Permits and Licensing Division because it’s already a long overdue. Those who fail to secure business permit should be strictly required to process a permit,” he said.
Distrito disclosed that the law should be applicable to all because it’s unfair to the law abiding citizens who are paying a correct taxes and complied the labor law requirements. (MAP)