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Civil ServiceCommission vs. Unda

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, AND THE MUNICIPALITY OF MASIU, LANAO DEL SUR, REPRESENTED BY MAYOR NASSER P. PANGANDAMAN, JR., Petitioners, v. SAMAD M. UNDA, Respondent. G.R. No. 213331 THE MUNICIPALITY OF MASIU, PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL SUR, REPRESENTED BY NASSER P. PANGANDAMAN, JR., MUNICIPAL MAYOR, Petitioner, v. SAMAD M. UNDA, Respondent.

G.R. No. 213237 | 2017-09-13

Republic of the Philippines
Supreme Court
Manila
 
THIRD DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N
 
BERSAMIN, J.:
 
An appointment to a position that is optional under the Local Government Code (LGC) but without the corresponding appropriation by the relevant sanggunian is ineffectual.
 
The Case

The petitioners in these consolidated cases assail the decision promulgated on January 23, 2014,1whereby the Court of Appeals (CA) reversed the decision of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and upheld the appointment of the respondent as Municipal Environmental and Natural Resources Officer (MENRO) for the Municipality of...