Distance of Establishments

I. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1224 AN ACT AMENDING SECTION ONE OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED NINE
HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT1, AS AMENDED
This law gives the local government unit the power to regulate or prohibit by ordinance the
establishment, maintenance and operation of businesses that serve alcoholic beverages such as
of night clubs, cabarets, dancing schools, pavilions, cockpits, bars, saloons bowling alleys, billiard
pools, and other similar places of amusement within its territorial jurisdiction.
No night clubs, cabarets, pavilions, or other similar places shall be established, maintained and/or
operated within a radius of two hundred lineal meters from any public building, schools, hospital
and churches. No dancing schools, bars, saloons, billiard pools, bowling alleys, or other similar
places shall be established, maintained and/or operated within a radius of fifty lineal meters from
any public building, schools, hospital and churches.
The enforcing agency is the respective local government unit.

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Republic Act No. 938 An Act Granting Municipal or City Boards and Councils the Power to Regulate the
Establishment, Maintenance and Operation of Certain Places of Amusement Within Their Respective Territorial
Jurisdictions.