Powers of the LGU

A local government unit enters into a Tri-Partite Memorandum of Agreement with a private corporation where a parcel of land will be used as a garbage dumping site.

• Power to acquire and convey real or personal property

• Power to have continuous succession in its corporate name.

• Power to enter into contracts

• Power to sue and be sued

The Local Government Code of 1991, in Section 20, gives local government units (LGUs) the power to ________ in their jurisdiction.

• negotiate and secure grants

• acquire and convey real or personal property

• reclassify lands

A non-governmental organization approaches a local government with the intention of building a housing project for displaced residents due to fire and they wish to donate building materials, construction services, and post-construction services.

• Power to sue and be sued

• Power to acqquire and convey real or personal property

• Power to have and use corporate seal

• Power to negotiate and secure grants

Municipal corporations can ______ and the obligations arising out of those contracts cannot be impaired by the court.

• enter into contracts

• use its corporate name

• have and use a corporate seal

The Sanggunian of the City of Alemanya recommended the change of the city's name to "City of Alamain."

• Power to have continuous succession in its corporate name

• Power to sue and be sued

• Power to enter into contracts

• Power to have and use a corporate seal

A local government unit (LGU) has the capacity to ______ under its Charter and Section 22(a)(2) of the Local Government Code (LGC) of 1991.

• acquire and convey real or personal property

• have and use a corporate seal

• sue and be sued

The Supreme Court held that a public plaza is beyond the commerce of man so it cannot be the subject of a lease or any other contractual undertaking.

• Power to sue and be sued

• Power to enter into contracts

• Power to acquire and convey real or personal property

• Power to negotiate and secure grants

Power to _____________ in kind, in support of the basic services or facilities enumerated under Section 17 of the Local Government Code of 1991

• reclassify lands

• acquire and convey real or personal property

• negotiate and secure financial grant

In a representative suit, the taxpayers of the City of Almain sued the City in order to question and declare null and void a contract which according to their complaint was executed by defendant city mayor purportedly on behalf of the city without valid authority.

• Power to enter into contracts

• Power to sue and be sued

• Power to have continuous succession in its corporate name.

• Power to negotiate and secure grants

In contracts it would enter into, its _______would be used to be identified as such party in the contract.