Move to unify anti-rabies ordinances gets EBA nod
GOVERNOR Erico Aumentado vowed Thursday to send a memorandum to all local executives in an attempt to unify all municipal ordinances to the newly passed Bohol Anti-Rabies Ordinance.
Aumentado’s action came as the Bohol Rabies Prevention and Eradication Council (BRPEC) met at the Mansion to resolve issues that hinder the province-wide implementation of anti-rabies prevention and eradication program.
BRPEC has initially sought the governor’s help to resolve the issue non-uniformity of applicable laws in the dog registration and vaccination in the towns.
The program calls for massive dog registration and vaccination, dog-population control, elimination after impounding, bite management, public education as well as putting up local mechanisms to bring the campaign to the communities with barangay workers as front-liners.
With different enforceable local laws legislated in the towns, the council members has asked the governor for help to guide local program implementers as to which law would assure sustainability to the program which aims to make the province rabies free by 2010.
Sustainability can be assured if barangays are allowed to get shares in the implementation as well as in the collection of dog registration and vaccination fees.
The fees would assure a revolving fund for vaccine and dog-tag acquisition as proof of vaccination.
The provincial ordinance mandates that dog registration would be P50 for a female and P100 for a male dog. It also states that 50% of the money collected goes to the provincial government as anti-rabies program revolving fund while 30% goes to the frontline barangay government while the remaining 20% goes to the municipal government.
The registration also goes with a subsequent vaccination and dog-tagging.
Some towns however collect minimal amounts for dog-registration and do not require dog-tagging, further complicating possible rabies infection and dog population control.
The governor’s action seeks to declare ultra vires all local ordinances that would run counter to the provisions of the provincial ordinance.
“On matters of issues between a provincial and a municipal ordinance, it is the provincial ordinance that prevails,” the governor who is also a lawyer explained. (rachiu/PIA)
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