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Section 2March 23, 2007, Sec./Art. 2
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Section 14, Chapter 5, Title III, Book IV of the same Code, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 14. Public Attorney's Office (PAO) . - The Citizen's Legal Assistance Office (CLAO) is renamed Public Attorney's Office (PAO) . It shall exercise the powers and functions as are now provided by law for the Citizen's Legal Assistance Office or may hereafter be provided by law.
"The PAO shall be an independent and autonomous office attached to the Department of Justice in accordance with Sec. 38(3) , Chapter 7 of Book IV of this Code for the purposes of policy and program coordination.
"The PA0 shall be the principal law office of the government in extending free legal assistance to indigent persons in criminal, civil, labor, administrative and other quasi-judicial cases."
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