17/08/2025
𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆
𝗠𝗔𝗬𝗢𝗥 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗛 𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗜𝗗𝗬 𝗨𝗣 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗘𝗦
Mayor Benjamin Magalong issued an order today, Aug. 17, 2025 giving all business establishments one week starting Aug. 18, 2025 to clean up and maintain their premises as part of the continuing aggressive clean and orderly campaign.
"This is a fair warning to all our businessmen. If after one week your frontage and immediate surroundings remain dirty and disorderly then be prepared to suffer the consequences," the mayor said.
He said a lot of commercial firms appeared to have neglected the upkeep of their premises resulting to eyesores and even health and safety hazards.
"It's very frustrating to see these filthy frontage to think that these are businesses. They mirror the image of our city. Owners should be responsible enough to see to the upkeep of their own bread and butter," the mayor said.
He said after one week, the city through the Public Order and Safety Division and other offices will launch a fresh wave of inspections of commercial establishments along the highways and the central business district to check on their compliance with the city's Anti-Littering Ordinance and other related laws.
Those that will fail to comply will be issued notices of violations and pay the corresponding penalties.
The anti-littering measure or Ordinance No. 54-1988 as amended by Ordinance No. 59-2020 imposes penalties of fines ranging from P1,000-5,000 or community service of up to 36 hours for individuals and fines of P3,000-P5,000 with suspension and revocation of business permits for establishments.
As stipulated in the ordinance, "owners or commercial and industrial establishments such as hotels, restaurants, hospitals, cinema housee, stores, transportation companies, universities, colleges, schools and other similar institutions and owners or administrators of commercial and residential lots shall be obliged to keep their areas and surroundings as well as abutting roads, drainage canals, curbs and gutters, alleys and other passageways and their immediate premises clean."
Owners of buildings abutting on streets are also mandated to provide receptacles on sidewalks for use of the public.
These establishments are to be inspected anytime during regular business hours by law enforcers.
The mayor also reminded residents and visitors that the ordinance punishes rhe following acts:
"Spitting, or expectorating, discharging mucus from the nose, urinating, defecating, vomiting, throwing, dumping, leaving or scattering "pieces of paper, peelings, cigarette or to***co butts, soil or any kind of refuse or garbage in public places such as parks, streets, plazas, lagoons, lakes, brooks, roads, canals, alleys, fences, walls, markets and inside public buildings or enclosures which are open to the public;
"Throwing or dumping garbage, waste matter, refuse, urine, used oil, used paint, water used from painting, cleaning and car washing, human waste and substances whether solid or liquid into canals, drainage systems, sewerage systems, curbs and gutters , creeks, rivers, tributaries, rivulets, and other natural waterways including lakes, lagoons, catch basins and other natural bodies of water."
"It all boils down to discipline and I hope for the day when we do not have to resort to issuing repeated reminders and waging crackdowns to achieve the clean, orderly and healthy Baguio that we want," the mayor said. - Aileen P. Refuerzo
