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Ordinance Regulating Second-Hand Cellular Phones

February 20, 2010

PROPOSED ORDINANCE No.

3 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE PURCHASE AND SALE, TRADE-IN,

4 PAWNING OF USED, PRE-OWNED AND RECONDITIONED 5 MOBILE PHONE WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF 6 CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION 7 THEREOF; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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9 Introduced by Coun.cilor Ian Mark Q. Nacaya

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11 WHEREAS, the buying and selling of second-hand or used mobile phones by 12 mobile phone dealers and/or mobile phone retailers/resellers is allegedly a profitable

13 business venture in Cagayan de Oro City;

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15 WHEREAS, it has also been reported that the aforementioned second-hand or

16 used mobile phones are now accepted by a number of pawnshops as items for

17 pawnll1g; 18

19 WHEREAS, in unison with the said upswing commerce on second-hand or

20 used mobile phones is the report that snatched or stolen mobile phones are

21 surreptitiously being sold by lawless elements to mobile phone dealers and/or mobile

22 phone retailers/resellers or pawned to pawnshops as second-hand or used mobile

23 phone units; .

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25 WHEREAS, some shocking instances have already occurred wherein

26 customers of some mobile phone dealers and/or mobile phone retailers/reseUers

27 vending second-hand mobile phones have ended up buying their snatched or stolen

28 mobile phone units;

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30 WHEREAS, there is indeed an undeniable linkage between the reported rash

31 or mobile phone snatching and the proliferation of buying, selling and pawning of

32 second-hand or used mobile phones in the city;

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34 WHEREAS, curtailing the selling, buying and pawning of second-hand or

35 used mobile phones bereft of original receipt of purchase of the unit would

36 substantially help in addressing the alarming increase in the theft and robbery of

37 mobile phones within the city since the market of the same would be vastly reduced,

38 it not eliminated;

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40 WHEREAS, the Local Government Code of 1991 mandates the City

41 Government of Cagayan de Oro to enact measures designed to ensure that the mobile

42 phone-owning public, as well as the operations of mobile phone-based business

43 entities will not be unduly harmed by the criminal activities of lawless elements;

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45 NOW, THEREFORE:

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47 BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of Cagayan de Oro that:

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PROPOSED ORDINANCE No.

3 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE PURCHASE AND SALE, TRADE-IN,

4 PAWNING OF USED, PRE-OWNED AND RECONDITIONED 5 MOBILE PHONE WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF 6 CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION 7 THEREOF; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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9 Introduced by Councilor Ian Mark Q. Nacaya

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11 WHEREAS, the buying and selling of second-hand or used mobile phones by 12 mobile phone dealers and/or mobile phone retailers/resellers is allegedly a profitable

13 business venture in Cagayan de Oro City;

14

15 WHEREAS, it has also been reported that the aforementioned second-hand or

16 used mobile phones are now accepted by a number of pawnshops as items for

17 pawnl11gj 18

19 WHEREAS, in unison with the said upswing commerce on second-hand or

20 used mobile phones is the report that snatched or stolen mobile phones are

21 surreptitiously being sold by lawless elements to mobile phone dealers and/or mobile

22 phone retailers/resellers or pawned to pawnshops as second-hand or used mobile

23 phone unitsj

24

25 WHEREAS, some shocking instances have already occurred wherein

26 customers of some mobile phone dealers and/or mobile phone retailers/resellers

27 vending second-hand mobile phones have ended up buying their snatched or stolen

28 mobile phone units;

29

30 WHEREAS, there is indeed an undeniable linkage between the reported rash

31 or mobile phone snatching and the proliferation of buying, selling and pawning of

.32 second-hand or used mobile phones in the city;

33

34 WHEREAS, curtailing the selling, buying and pawning of second-hand or

35 used mobile phones bereft of original receipt of purchase of the unit would

36 substantially help in addressing the alarming increase in the theft and robbery of

37 mobile phones within the city since the market of the same would be vastly reduced,

38 it not eliminated;

39

40 WHEREAS, the Local Government Code of 1991 mandates the City

41 Government of Cagayan de Oro to enact measures designed to ensure that the mobile

42 phone-owning public, as well as the operations of mobile phone-based business

43 entities will not be unduly harmed by the criminal activities of lawless elements;

44

45 NOW, THEREFORE:

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47 BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of Cagayan de Oro that:

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