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B. (1) Any person who shall cut, gather or remove trees from any forest land,watershed areas, alienable and disposable lands, without any authority under a licenseagreement, lease, license or permit, shall be guilty of qualified theft as defined and punishedunder article 309 and 310 of the Revised Penal Code.(2) Any person who shall engage in cutting, gathering or removing of trees from hisown land, for firewood and charcoal making, and other purposes for sale shall secure permitfrom the office of the Mayor before applying for permit from the Department of Environmentand Natural Resources. A permit fee of three pesos (P3.00) per cubic meter shall becharged each applicant.C. For purposes of personal and household consumption, member or members ofthe same household may be allowed to cut, gather and remove trees from his or their ownland without the necessity of the permit; provided that the same shall not be sold orbartered.D. Firewood or charcoal obtained in violation of the above provisions shall beconfiscated in favor of the government.SECTION 36. Prohibiting the Taking of Bamboo Shoots. In accordance withMunicipal Ordinance No. 05-91, it shall be unlawful for any person to take bamboo shoots,sale, exchange and barter whether in their original or processed form and even they aretaken from his or her own bamboo plantation or other sources.SECTION 37. Parks for Tourism. <strong>The</strong> Municipal Land Use and Zoning Ordinanceshall designate park areas for tourism development. Measures shall be instituted to maintainthe ecological asset as the basis of the tourism industry. Littering in tourism area shall bepunished without mitigation.SECTION 38. Forest Management. <strong>The</strong> Municipality shall create the MunicipalForest Management Planning Team tasked to protect, to preserve, to conserve and toproperly manage forest resources.SECTION 39. Prohibited Acts on Parks. No person shall destroy to include but notlimited to the picking of flowers, cutting of trees, vandalistic and other detrimental acts inorder to preserve the aesthetic beauty and structures of parks as well as the generalserenity.SECTION 40. Tourism Areas. Identified tourism areas shall be properly declared bythe <strong>Sangguniang</strong> Bayan in consultation with the Department of Environment and NaturalResources (DENR) in case they are within the timberlands.CHAPTER IVSOLID WASTE MANAGEMENTSECTION 41. Statement of Policies. Consistent with Department of Environmentand Natural Resources (DENR) framework of promoting a sustainable urban environment,the Municipal Government hereby adopts these policies on Ecological Waste Management.1. <strong>The</strong> insurance of the protection of public health and environment;2. <strong>The</strong> utilization of the environmentally-sound methods that maximize the utilizationof valuable resources and encourage resource conservation and recovery;3. <strong>The</strong> insurance of the proper segregation, collection, transport, storage treatmentand disposal of solid waste through the formulation and adoption of the bestenvironmental practice in ecological waste management excluding incineration;249