TACLOBAN CITY – Members of the Leyte provincial board approved on Tuesday Ordinance No. 2012-01 regulating the construction and maintenance of cellular towers across the province.
The proposed measure is authored by Board Member Roque Tiu,who chairs the committee on environment and natural resources.
The ordinance was borne out on the numerous complaints he recieved on the mushrooming of cell site towers in the province, Tiu said.
Although it was found out that cell site towers radiation do not poses any harm to humans, Tiu still pursued with the enactment of the ordinance after it was suggested by government agency officials who attended the public hearings his committee initiated to go on with the drafting of the ordinance for regulation purposes.
Tiu added that it was also noticed that some contractors who were hired to put up tower sites do not secure any permits from the local government units concerned.
“Some contractors and owners of these cell sites are not complying or follow what are mandated by our law like securing a mayor’s building permit and zoning ordinance of the municipality,” Tiu explained.
With the approval of the ordinance, Tiu expects for mobile phone signal providers to include their contractors to obey the provisions cited in the ordinance as per section 7 of the provincial ordinance the office of the building official will assess and evaluate the building plan, mechanical and electrical plan in accordance with the National Building Code and shall issue certificate of clearance while the Bureau of Fire Protection must issue fire safety evaluation clearance after the compliance with the fire and life safety requirements.
Once this documentary requirements are accomplished, the members of the sangguniang bayan shall conduct an initial review on the documents before passing a resolution endorsing to them for approval by issuing a resolution interposing no objection, Tiu said.
Violators of the ordinance faces a penalty of P5, 000 and imprisonment from four to six months.
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