intelligently a local dialect generally understood in the municipality, and the Spanish or English language. SHTcDE [2408-42.] SECTION  2607 . The Municipal President . — The municipal president shall be the chief executive officer of the municipality and shall have the following general powers and duties: ( c ) Ecclesiastics, soldiers, and so forth . — In no case shall there be elected or appointed to a municipal office ecclesiastics; soldiers in active service; persons receiving salaries from provincial, departmental, or Insular funds; those who are delinquent i n the payment of public taxes; or contractors for public works within the province. ARTICLE  III The Municipal Executive ( a ) Observation and enforcement of laws . — He shall take care that all laws, ordinances, regulations, and resolutions in force in the municipality are duly observed and executed within the jurisdiction of the municipality. ( b ) Authority over municipal officers . — He shall see that all other officers of the municipality faithfully discharge their respective duties, and to that end may, with the approval of the provincial governor, cause to be instituted any appropriate crimin al action or take other proceedings to bring the attention of the proper superior officer to the derelictions of the municipal official. ESaITA ( c ) Recommendations to council . — He shall give to the municipal council from time to time such information and recommend such measures as he shall deem advantageous to the municipality. ( d ) Meetings of council.  — He shall preside at all meetings of the municipal council; shall have the right to vote on ordinances or other matters coming before the council only in the case of a tie vote; shall sign the secretary's record of the proceedings  of each meeting of the council, at the same meeting at which same is approved by the council; and shall sign all ordinances and resolutions. ( e) Bonds, contracts, and so forth . — He shall sign all bonds, contracts, 823 Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011