Section 2April 30, 2007, Sec./Art. 2

Republic Act No. 7277 is hereby amended by inserting a new title, chapter and section after Section 38 to be denominated as Title 4, chapters 1 and 2 and Sections 39, 40, 41 and 42 to read as follows:

"Title Four

Prohibitions on Verbal, Non-verbal Ridicule and VilificationAgainst Persons with Disability

"CHAPTER 1. Deliverance from Public Ridicule.

"SEC. 39. Public Ridicule . - For purposes of this Chapter, public ridicule shall be defined as an act of making fun or contemptuous initiating or making mockery of persons with disability whether in writing or in words, or in action due to their impairment/s.

"SEC. 40. No individual, group or community shall execute any of these acts of ridicule against persons with disability in any time and place which could intimidate or result in loss of self-esteem of the latter.

"CHAPTER 2. Deliverance from Vilification

"SEC. 41. Vilification. - For purposes of this chapter, vilification shall be defined as:

(a) the utterance of slanderous and abusive statements against a person with disability; and/or

(b) An activity in public which incites hatred towards serious contempt for, or severe ridicule of persons with disability."

"SEC. 42. Any individual, group or community is hereby prohibited from vilifying any person with disability which could result into loss of self-esteem of the latter."