Section 2Sec./Art. 2

The City of Sipalay. - The Municipality of Sipalay shall be converted into a component city to be known as the City of Sipalay, hereinafter referred to as the City, which shall comprise the present jurisdiction of the Municipality of Sipalay, Negros Occidental Province. The territorial jurisdiction of the City shall be within the present metes and bounds of the Municipality of Sipalay, as follows:

The City of Sipalay is situated in the Province of Negros Occidental, Island of Negros. Bounded on the North by the Municipality of Cauayan along points 1 to 2, on the East by the Municipality of Candoni along points 2 to 3, on the South by the Municipality of Hinoba-an along points 3 to 4, on the West by the Sulu Sea along points 4 to the point of beginning;

Beginning from a point 1 along the shore in the Barrio of Cartegena with latitude 9Â 50'N., longitude 122Â 23'E., running eastward in a straight line direction, until it intersects point 2 with latitude 9Â 50'N., longitude 122Â 35'E.; thence running southward in a straight line direction until it intersects point 3 with latitude 9Â 40'N., longitude 122Â 24'E.: Then following the course of Sulu Sea going up to the point of beginning, containing an area of thirty-seven thousand nine hundred seventy-eight hectares (37,978 has.) more or less.

The foregoing provision shall be without prejudice to the resolution by the appropriate agency or forum of existing boundary disputes or cases involving questions of territorial jurisdiction between the City of Sipalay and the adjoining local government units.