Article 131Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 131

Prohibition, interruption, and dissolution of peaceful meetings.-The penalty of prision correccional in its minimum period shall be imposed upon any public officer or employee who, without legal ground, shall prohibit or interrupt the holding of a peaceful meeting, or shall dissolve the same.

The same penalty shall be imposed upon a public officer or employee who shall hinder any person from joining any lawful association or from attending any of its meetings.

The same penalty shall be imposed upon any public officer or employee who shall prohibit or hinder any person from addressing, either alone or together with others, any petition to the authorities for the correction of abuses or redress of grievances.

SECTION FOUR.-Crimes against religious worship

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

feasibility study in coordination with the DOH and other

government agencies;

(l) Receive, gather, collect and evaluate all information on

the importation, exportation, production, manufacture,

sale, stocks, seizures of and the estimated need for any

dangerous drug and/or controlled precursor and essential

chemical, for which purpose the Board may require from

any official, instrumentality or agency of the government

or any private person or enterprise dealing in, or engaged

in activities having to do with any dangerous drug and/or

controlled precursors and essential chemicals such data

or information as it may need to implement this Act;

(m)

Gather

and

prepare

detailed

statistics

on

the

importation, exportation, manufacture, stocks, seizures of

and estimates need for any dangerous drug and/or

controlled precursors and essential chemicals and such

other statistical data on said drugs as may be periodically

required

by

the

United

Nations

Narcotics

Drug

Commission, the World Health Organization and other

international

organizations

in

consonance

with

the

country's international commitments;

(n)

Develop

and

maintain

international

networking

coordination with international drug control agencies

and

organizations,

and implement the provisions of

international conventions and agreements thereon which

have been adopted and approved by the Congress of the

Philippines;

(o) Require all government and private hospitals, clinics,

doctors, dentists and other practitioners to submit a

report to it, in coordination with the PDEA, about all

dangerous

drugs

and/or

controlled

precursors

and

essential chemicals-related cases to which they have

attended for statistics and research purposes;

(p) Receive in trust legacies, gifts and donations of real

and personal properties of all kinds, to administer and

dispose the same when necessary for the benefit of

government and private rehabilitation centers subject to

limitations, directions and instructions from the donors, if

any;

(q) Issue guidelines as to the approval or disapproval of

applications for voluntary treatment, rehabilitation or

confinement,

wherein

it

shall

issue

the

necessary

guidelines,

rules

and

regulations

pertaining

to

the

application and its enforcement;

(r)

Formulate

guidelines,

in

coordination

with other

government

agencies,

the

importation,

distribution,

production,

manufacture,

compounding,

prescription,

dispensing

and

sale

of,

and

other

lawful

acts

in

connection

with

any

dangerous

drug,

controlled

precursors and essential chemicals and other similar or

analogous substances of such kind and in such quantity

as it may deem necessary according to the medical and

research needs or requirements of the country including

diet

pills

containing

ephedrine

and

other

addictive

chemicals and determine the quantity and/or quality of

dangerous drugs and controlled precursors and essential

chemicals to be imported, manufactured and held in

stock

at

any

given

time

by

authorized

importer,

manufacturer or distributor of such drugs;

(s) Develop the utilization of a controlled delivery scheme

in addressing the transshipment of dangerous drugs into

and out of the country to neutralize transnational crime

syndicates involved in illegal trafficking of any dangerous

drugs

and/or

controlled

precursors

and

essential

chemicals;

(t) Recommend the revocation of the professional license

of any practitioner who is an owner, co-owner, lessee, or

in the employ of the drug establishment, or manager of a

partnership,

corporation,

association,

or

any

juridical

entity

owning

and/or

controlling

such

drug

establishment, and who knowingly participates in, or

consents to, tolerates, or abets the commission of the act

of violations as indicated in the preceding paragraph, all

without prejudice to the criminal prosecution of the

person responsible for the said violation;

(u) Appoint such technical, administrative and other

personnel

as

may

be

necessary

for

the

effective

implementation of this Act, subject to the Civil Service

Law and its rules and regulations;

(v) Establish a regular and continuing consultation with

concerned

government

agencies

and

medical

professional organizations to determine if balance exists

in

policies,

procedures,

rules

and

regulations

on

dangerous drugs and to provide recommendations on

how the lawful use of dangerous drugs can be improved

and facilitated; and

(w)

Submit

an

annual

and

periodic

reports

to the

President, the Congress of the Philippines and the Senate

and House of Representatives committees concerned as

may be required from time to time, and perform such

other functions as may be authorized or required under

existing

laws

and

as

directed

by

the

President

himself/herself or as recommended by the congressional

committees concerned.

Section 82. Creation of the Philippine Drug Enforcement

Agency (PDEA) . – To carry out the provisions of this Act,

the PDEA, which serves as the implementing arm of the

Board, and shall be responsible for the efficient and

effective law enforcement of all the provisions on any

dangerous drug and/or controlled precursor and essential

chemical as provided in this Act.

The PDEA shall be headed by a Director General with the

rank of Undersecretary, who shall be responsible for the

general administration and management of the Agency.

The Director General of the PDEA shall be appointed by

the President of the Philippines and shall perform such

other duties that may be assigned to him/her. He/she

must

possess

adequate

knowledge,

training

and

experience in the field of dangerous drugs, and in any of

the following fields: law enforcement, law, medicine,

criminology, psychology or social work.

The Director General of the PDEA shall be assisted in the

performance of his/her duties and responsibilities by two

(2) deputies director general with the rank of Assistant

Secretary; one for Operations and the other one for

Administration. The two (2) deputies director general shall

likewise be appointed by the President of the Philippines

upon recommendation of the Board. The two (2) deputies

director general shall possess the same qualifications as

those of the Director General of the PDEA. The Director

General and the two (2) deputies director general shall

receive the compensation and salaries as prescribed by

law.

Section 83. Organization of the PDEA . – The present

Secretariat of the National Drug Law Enforcement and

Prevention Coordinating Center as created by Executive

Order No. 61 shall be accordingly modified and absorbed

by the PDEA.

The Director General of the PDEA shall be responsible for

the necessary changes in the organizational set-up which

shall be submitted to the Board for approval.

For purposes of carrying out its duties and powers as

provided for in the succeeding Section of this Act, the

PDEA

shall

have

the

following

Services,

namely:

Intelligence and Investigation; International Cooperation

and

Foreign

Affairs;

Preventive

Education

and

Community

Involvement;

Plans

and

Operations;

Compliance; Legal and Prosecution; Administrative and

Human

Resource;

Financial

Management;

Logistics

Management; and Internal Affairs.

The PDEA shall establish and maintain regional offices in

the different regions of the country which shall be

responsible for the implementation of this Act and the

policies, programs, and projects of said agency in their

respective regions.

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