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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Sunday, March 11, 2018
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BACOLOD City – The Office of the Building Official (OBO) has served a notice of violation to the owner of a business establishment at the downtown area.
The establishment does not have a building permit, the OBO said.
Executive Assistant Samuel Montoyo Sr. requested the OBO to inspect the establishment along Gatuslao Street last week.
Montoyo did not say what kind of establishment it was but claimed that the owner was renovating the building it occupies.
The activity led to the destruction of the sidewalk, which as a result was closed, the executive assistant said.
An OBO team that inspected the site discovered that the establishment violated the implementing rules and regulations of the National Building Code.
The Code’s Section 301 states that “no person, firm or corporation including any agency or instrumentality of the government shall construct alter, repair, convert, use, occupy, move, demolish, and add any building or any portion thereof or cause the same to be done without first obtaining a building permit therefor from the Building Official assigned in the places where the subject building is located or to be done.”
OBO head Isidro Sun issued the notice dated March 6 to Liza Morales.
Sun said Morales must pay a 100-percent surcharge for her building permit fee on top of the P10,000 penalty for her violation.
Morales cannot be reached for comment as of press time.
“It is not proper [for] them [to] destroy the sidewalk because it is government property,” Montoyo said.
He also said he will tap the Bureau of Fire Protection to inspect Morales’ establishment. Montoyo mulls filing charges against the establishment, too.
He said the incident must be a lesson for other business owners and soon-to-be business owners in the city.
They must secure a building permit first, Montoyo stressed./PN
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