Section 16Sec./Art. 16

Quorum. - (a) A majority of all the members the Sanggunian who have been elected and qualified shall constitute a quorum to transact official business. Should a question of quorum be raised during a session, the presiding officer shall immediately proceed to call the roll of the members and thereafter announce the results.

(b) Where there is no quorum, the presiding officer may declare a recess until such time as a quorum is constituted, or a majority of the members present may adjourns frfom day to day and may compel the immediate attendance of any member absent without justifiable cause by designating a member of the Sanggunian, to be assisted by a member or members of the police force assigned in the territorial jurisidiction of the City of Calaca, to arrest the absent member and present him at the session.

(c) If there is still no quorum despite the enforcement of the immediate preceding subsection, no business shall be transacted. The preceding officer, upon proper motion duly approved by the members present, shall then declare the session adjourned for lack of quorum.