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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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ILOILO City – Twenty establishments dispensing intoxicating liquor face possible closure for violating Mayor Jose Espinosa III’s Executive Order (EO) 146.
The EO mandates the closure of these types of establishments by 2 a.m.
Most of the violators were nightclubs and bars in the City Proper and Mandurriao district, according to Jeck Conlu, head of the city government’s Public Safety and Management Office (PSTMO) tasked to enforce the EO.
The operators of these establishments would be summoned by the Business Permits and Licensing Office and asked to explain.
“They would be made to execute a memorandum of undertaking nga pwede sila i-subject for closure kun liwat mag-violate,” said Conlu.
Espinosa issued the EO on Dec. 14. The “unregulated dispensation” of intoxicating drinks results “in the improper and harmful conduct and behavior of consumers,” he explained.
The mayor is keen on making the new policy a norm for businesses engaged in the dispensation of alcoholic beverages. The EO would be deemed an additional condition for these establishments when applying for business permits.
Violation of the EO would entail administrative sanctions which include but is not limited to the cancellation of business permit and/or closure of business establishment, or non-renewal of business permit for the subsequent year.
Conlu urged residents to help the city government enforce the EO by reporting, even through social media, those violating it.
The EO, however, has exemptions. These are the following:
* hotels/motels
* resorts accredited by the Department of Tourism
* restaurants, provided they shall not sell nor serve nor dispense nor allow customers to drink within their premises from 2 a.m. until 8 a.m. on the same day, and
*convenience stores operating on a 24-hour basis, provided that such convenience stores may sell but shall not serve nor allow its customers to drink within its premises from 2 a.m. until 8 a.m. on the same day./PN
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