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 The Market Committee is authorized to call upon any unit of the Municipal Government to render the necessary assistance and support to be able to perform its assigned tasks.

CHAPTER V

AWARDING OF STALLS AND CANCELLATION OF AWARDS

Sec. 8. Application. Filipino citizens who are actual residents of the Municipality of Urbiztondo shall be given preference in the award of public market stalls. All application to lease or rent shall be filed to the Office of the Treasurer in a form prescribed herein.

Sec. 9. Assignment of Occupied Stalls.

a. No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale, any article or articles in any public market, within the Municipality of Urbiztondo or use or occupy any stall without first having been assigned as such in the manner prescribed in this Code.

b. Vendors shall be assigned to their respective stalls according to the nature of the merchandise intended for sale.

c. Dwellings/sleeping in stalls or any place within the market premises is strictly prohibited.

d. Any person other than the stallholder or his/her partner or helpers found conducting business at the stall shall be required to pay rent in addition to the corresponding rents collected from the regular holder of lease, provided that the payment of such additional rents shall not waive the right of the market authorities to impose whatever penalties may be levied upon the lease for violation of this provisions including the revocation of lease.

Sec. 10. Partnership with Stallholder. A market stallholder who enters into a business partnership with any party after he/she has acquired the right to lease such stall shall have the authority to transfer such right to his/her partner or partners provided the partnership is registered to the Market Committee, provided further, that in case of death or any legal disability of such stallholder to continue his/her business for a period of not more than sixty (60) days within which to wind up the business of the partnership. If the surviving partner is otherwise qualified to occupy a market stall under the provisions thereof, the relative within the third degree by consanguinity or affinity of the deceased shall be given the preference to continue occupying the stall or booths.

Sec. 11. Subleasing or Selling of Privileges to Occupy Stall Prohibited. No person shall be allowed to sublease to others the stall awarded. A person, other than the stallholder found sub- leasing or selling the stall to the latter shall be a prima facie evidence of subleasing and shall subject the stall holder to outright revocation of his/her lease award.

Sec. 12. Number of Stalls to One Person Not to Exceed Two. No person shall be allowed to lease more than one stall, provided that when two stalls are leased to one person, such stall shall adjoin one another and shall be located in the same section of the market, and provided further, that it shall be a violation of this Section for more than one member of a family consisting of a father, mother, sons, daughters to hold stalls in one market unless these sons and daughters are already married and with their families of their own support or when they are already living by themselves and independently of their parents.

Sec. 13. Duration of Regular Lease. Any awarded lease in any form upon approval of this Code shall be five (5) years renewable contract subject to review, in case of renewal, by