BACOLOD City – Some 53 business establishments were placed under the monitoring of the City Legal Office (CLO) of Bacolod.
The city government’s Business Permits and Licensing Office (BPLO) and the CLO recently inspected all the tenants at a mall in the downtown area.
Of the 145 stalls they inspected, 53 have no records with the BPLO.
City Legal Officer Romeo Carlos Ting Jr. said this meant they had not secured the necessary permits. Most of them were beauty parlors, gyms, and printing services, among others.
Notices of violation have already been served, and according to them, they are now processing their permits, the city legal officer claimed.
Ting added that they will still monitor the tenants’ compliance by verifying it with the BPLO. Otherwise, they will be meted out with a notice of closure.
On Feb. 3, the city, together with the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), conducted an entrapment operation following a complaint from a business owner who was a victim of a counterfeited permit.
A staff of a business establishment from the said mall was nabbed by the NBI operatives. He was charged with falsification of public documents on Monday./PN
