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The crime of resistance and disobedience to a person in authority or the agents of such person of Article 151 under Revised Penal Code has only the jail term of arresto mayor and a fine not exceeding P500.

Rep. Lord Allan Jay Velasco (Lone District, Marinduque), author of House Bill 5816, said the bill seeks to address outdated fines and penalties of the 8-decade Revised Penal Code.

Velasco said that under the Code, when the disobedience to an agent of a person in authority is not of serious nature, the penalty of arresto menor or a fine ranging from 10 to P100 pesos shall be imposed upon the offender.

Under Velasco's bill, any person who resists or seriously disobeys any person in authority or the agent of such person while engaged in the performance of official duties shall be penalized with arresto mayor and slapped a fine not exceeding P40,000.

The bill shall penalize an offender with a fine ranging from P800 to P8,000 when the disobedience to a person in authority is not of a serious nature.

"The fine components of the law are still based on 1930 prices, the year the law was enacted. The massive inflation and devaluation our currency has gone through renders the punitive fine component of the RPC negligible," Velasco said.

source: PNA

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