Establishing the Cagayan de Oro City Cultural Center and Museum in Cagayan de Oro City, Province of Misamis Oriental

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Establishment of Cagayan de Oro City Cultural Center and Museum

- Section 1: Establishes the Cagayan de Oro City Cultural Center and Museum to promote culture and the arts, and to serve as a medium for the protection, preservation, presentation, and promotion of the city's cultural, artistic, archaeological, social, historical, religious, and philosophical heritage.

- Section 2: The Center and Museum shall be a collaboration between the City Government of Cagayan de Oro and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), with its site, structures, governance, organization, operations, and development to be provided for by mutual agreement between the parties, to be executed and published within one (1) year from the effectivity of this Act.

- Section 3: The Center and Museum shall:
• Compile musical notes, lyrics, and instruments of local origin (Section 3a)
• Publish and disseminate the city's literary works, epics, stories, and historical accounts (Section 3b)
• Compile the city's literature, film, or audiovisual recordings of cultural performances (Section 3c)
• Compile the city's epigrams, proverbs, legends, and the origin, history, and etymology of the city, its words, names of barangays, and other places of interest and their respective histories (Section 3d)
• Gather and document the city's religious practices and traditions, and the background and origin of local fiestas and festivals (Section 3e)
• Compile photographs, exhibits, local landmarks, historical sites, scenic views, and acquire and display local arts and artifacts (Section 3f)
• Gather archaeological findings, geological materials, and preserve samples of indigenous flora and fauna (Section 3g)
• Conduct performances on local music, dances, arts, literary works, epics, stories, historical accounts, and legends (Section 3h)
• Carry out any other relevant and appropriate activities (Section 3i)

- Section 4: The City Government of Cagayan de Oro shall provide the land necessary for the construction or establishment, or both, of the main venue and ancillary offices and facilities of the Center and Museum.

- Section 5: The amount necessary for the implementation of this Act shall be charged against the current year's budget of the NCCA (Proper). Thereafter, such amount as may be necessary for its continued implementation shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

- Section 6: Within sixty (60) days from the effectivity of this Act, the NCCA, in coordination with the City Government of Cagayan de Oro, other concerned agencies of the government, and private stakeholders, shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act.

- Section 7: Notwithstanding the non-issuance of the implementing rules and regulations, this Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.