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Solicitor General vs Metropolitan Manila Authority

THE SOLICITOR GENERAL, RODOLFO A. MALAPIRA, STEPHEN A. MONSANTO, DAR. CALDERON, and GRANDY N. TRIESTE, petitioners, vs. THE METROPOLITAN MANILA AUTHORITY and the MUNICIPALITY OF MANDALUYONG, respondents.

G.R. No. 102782 | 1991-12-11

D E C I S I O N 


CRUZ, J.: 

In Metropolitan Traffic Command, West Traffic District vs. Hon. Arsenio M. Gonong, G.R. No. 91023, promulgated on July 13, 1990, 1 the Court held that the confiscation of the license plates of motor vehicles for traffic violations was not among the sanctions that could be imposed by the Metro Manila Commission under PD 1605 and was permitted only under the conditions laid down by LOI 43 in the case of stalled vehicles obstructing the public streets. It was there also observed that even the confiscation of drivers licenses for traffic violations was not directly prescribed by the decree nor was it allowed...