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 Sec. 7. Smoking Regulation. The municipal government shall enforce the prohibition and/or regulation of smoking in the following locations: inside public buildings especially hospitals and schools, enclosed public places including public vehicles and other means of transport, any enclosed area outside of one’s residence, private place of work and other duly-designated enclosed area and ensure that the owner, proprietor, possessor, manager or administrator of such places has established smoking areas.

Sec. 8. Ban on Persistent Organic Pollutants. The municipal government shall formulate plans to eliminate the processing, sale, distribution, use and disposal of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and mixtures to include organochlorine pesticides such as aldrin, dieldrin, DDT, hexachlorobenzene, lindane, taxophere, and chlordane and organochlorine by-products such as dioxins and furans.

Sec. 9. Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Together with concerned agencies, the Municipal Government shall fully implement plans and programs to reduce greenhouse causing gas emissions such as burning of rice hulls in large quantities (targeting big and medium scale rice millers), tires, plastics, styrofoams and other greenhouse-causing materials.

Sec. 10. Phase out of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS). The Municipal Government and other concerned agencies shall draw up plans to phase out ozone depleting substance such as chlorofluorocarbons, halons, bromide, which are known to cause harmful effects on the ozone layer.

Sec. 11. Sewerage System. The Municipal Government shall adopt necessary measures to ensure that all drainage systems are adequately established and maintained to prevent the negative effects of all types of effluents on both surface and underground water.

Sec. 12. Liquid Waste Disposal. To avoid the deterioration of the Receiving Water Body (RWB), no industrial plant with high waste load potential shall discharge into a body of water where the dilution or assimilative capacity of said water body during dry weather conditions is insufficient to maintain its prescribed water quality according to its usage and classification. Further, no persons, entities or establishments shall discharge, wholly or partially, untreated or inadequately treated industrial effluents directly into bodies of water or through bypass canals and/or pumps and other unauthorized means.

Sec. 13. Health and Sanitation Measure. The Municipal Government shall adopt appropriate measures to assist barangay governments improve environmental sanitation by expanding the use of sanitary toilets for waste disposal, this include direct investments in public health education and strict enforcement of the Building and Sanitation Code.

Sec. 14. Ambient Air Quality and Noise Level Monitoring. When necessary, the Mayor, in close collaboration with the DENR-EMB I, shall establish, operate and maintain noise and ambient air quality sampling and monitoring stations, the result of which shall be released to the public particularly to communities living near and around emission sources. In general, the municipal government shall strictly regulate and monitor the operation of all noise-producing equipment such as construction and transportation equipment, stationary engines, electrical, electronic and similar equipment and contrivances to ensure that the generated noise and vibration levels are within the acceptable noise standards.

Sec. 15. Information and Education. The Mayor shall implement a continuing program of education and information dissemination on air and noise pollution as an integral part of the pollution control policy of the municipal government.

Sec. 16. Advisory Group. A group from the industrial sector shall be organized for the purpose of sharing air pollution reduction and noise abatement techniques and advised the Mayor and the barangay council on policy requirements to promote clean air in the municipality.

Sec. 17. Acts Prohibited and Punishable under this Code shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

a. Causing, permitting, suffering or allowing the emission of particulate matter from any source whatsoever, including but not limited to, vehicular movement, exportation of