Handout 6 Flashcards
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It is a building, edifice, or premise or a completely independent part thereof, which is used for the regular reception, accommodation, or lodging of travelers and tourists and the provision of services incidental thereto for a fee.
Hotel.
It refers to any place with a pleasant environment and atmosphere conducive to comfort, healthful relaxation, and rest, offering food, sleeping accommodation, and recreational facilities to the public for a
tep or remineration
Resort.
Catering to transients, it is a lodging establishment that does not meet the minimum requirements of an economy hotel.
Tourist Inn.
It refers to any building or edifice containing several independent and furnished or semi-furnished apartments, regularly leased to tourists and travelers for dwelling on a more or less long-term basis and offering basic services to its tenants, similar to hotels.
Apartel
It is a private or family-operated tourist boarding house, tourist guest house, or tourist lodging house employing non-professional domestic helpers regularly catering to tourists and travelers, containing several independent lettable rooms, providing common facilities such as toilets, bathrooms/showers, living and dining rooms and/or kitchen and where a combination of board and lodging may be provided.
Pension House.
It refers to any structure with several separate units, primarily located along the highway with individual or common parking space at which motorists may obtain lodging and, in some instances, meals.
Motorist Hotel or Motel
The certificate of accreditation shall be displayed in a conspicuous place of the establishment.
Section 34. Display of Certificate of Accreditation.
The rights over the accreditation shall
be non-transterable.
Section 35. Non-Transferability of Certificate of Accreditation
Hotel, resort, tourist inn, motel, apartel, and pension housekeepers, managers, or operators shall exert all efforts not to allow gambling of any form, drunkenness, or disorderly conduct of any kind by anyone in the establishment and its immediate premises.
Section 39. Gambling and Disorderly Conduct
Managers or operators of hotels, resorts, tourist inns, motels, apartels, and pension houses shall exert all possible efforts not to permit any person whom they know or have reason to believe to be either a prostitute, a pedophile, or of questionable character to occupy a room or to enter the premises.
Section 40. Prostitution and Other Immoral/Illegal Activities
The Certificate of Accreditation shall be valid for one (1) year from the date of issue unless sooner revoked by the DOT.
Validity of Certificate of Accreditation
Any of the following acts, omissions, or offense shall constitute sufficient grounds for the cancellation of accreditation:
Grounds for Cancellation of Accreditation
was adopted in view of the country’s accelerating economic and physical development coupled with urbanization and population growth. This Code contains technical knowledge on building design, construction, occupancy, and maintenance.
The National Building Code of the Philippines (Presidential Decree 1096)
General Building Requirements
Section 104.
Building Permits. No person, firm, or corporation including any agency or instrumentality of the government shall erect, construct, alter, repair, move, convert or demolish any building or structure or cause the same to be done without first obtaining a building permit therefore from the Building Official assigned in the place where the subject building is located or the building work is to be done.
Building Permits
Section 301
Location of Property
(a) General. No building shall be constructed unless it adjoins or has direct access to a public space yard or street on at least one of its sides.
(b) Fire Resistance of Walls. Exterior walls shall have fire resistance and opening protection xxx.
General Requirements of All Building by Use of Occupancy
Section 704.
(a) Subject to the provisions of the Civil Code on Easements of Light and View, and the provisions of this part of the Code [National Building Code of the Philippines], every building shall be designed, constructed, and equipped to provide adequate light and ventilation.
Light and Ventilation
Section 801. General Requirements of Light and Ventilation
Every room intended for any use, not provided with artificial ventilation system as herein specified in this Code [National Building Code of the Philippines], shall be provided with a window or windows with a total free area of openings equal to at least ten percent of the floor area of a room, and such window shall open directly to a court, yard, public street or alley, or open watercourses.
Section 808. Window Openings
for a building used for human habitation shall be supplied from the existing municipal or city waterworks system. In the case of drinking water from underground sources, it must conform to the criteria set in the latest approved National Standards for Drinking Water. Such design, construction, and operation of deep wells for the abstraction of groundwater shall be subject to the provisions of the Water Code of the Philippines.
potable water requirements
from buildings shall be discharged directly into the nearest street sanitary main sewers under the existing municipal or city sanitary sewerage system following the criteria set by the Code on Sanitation and the Environmental Management Bureau, which is under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
Sanitary sewage
This law provides that no establishment shall be operated and opened for public patronage without a sanitary permit issued by the Secretary of Health or his duly authorized representative. Under the said law, such establishment must provide adequate water supply, toilet and bath facilities shall be kept clean at all times, and with periodic insect and vermin control measures to eradicated vectors of diseases.
Code on Sanitation of the Philippines (Presidential Decree 856)
This law provides for the minimum standards for solid waste management, as well as the penalties for violation thereof.
Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 (Republic Act 9003)
This law requires owners, administrators, or occupants of a building, structures, and their premises or facilities and other responsible persons to comply with the following:
a. A fire safety inspection shall be conducted as a prerequisite to the grants of permits and/or licenses by local governments and other government agencies concerned, for the: (1) Use or occupancy of the building, structures, facilities, or their premises, including the installation of fire protection and fire safety equipment, and electrical system in any building structure or facility; and (2) Storage, handling and/or used of explosives or combustible, flammable, toxic and other hazardous materials;
d. Owners, occupants, or administrators of building, structures, and their premises or facilities shall incorporate and provide therein fire safety construction, protective and warning system, and shall develop and implement fire safety programs.
Fire Code of the Philippines (Presidential Decree 1185)
This law provides for the minimum standards for air quality management, water quality management, land use management, natural resources management and conservation, and waste management.
Philippine Environmental Code (Presidential Decree 1152)
