THE Quezon City government has issued a cease-and-desist order on the 57-year-old Capitol Golf Course and Country Club Inc. for operating without a permit in the past 10 years.
In a May 11 order signed “for and by authority of the City Mayor” by Garry Domingo, Business permit and Licensing Office head, the city government said “verification from our database shows that you are operating under EXPIRED Business Permit No. 97-069456 last issued on May 8, 2007, amounting to operating WITHOUT the required permit.” ‘‘In view of all the foregoing, you are hereby ordered to cease and desist from further operating your business immediately.
Please be informed also, that your establishment will be inspected after the service of this order and if you are found to be violating the same, the procedures for the PERMANENT CLOSURE of your business establishment will be initiated.”
The CDO was addressed to Jose Dagdagan, general manager of the CgCcci.
The order stemmed from the complaint of the Madrid Danao and Carullo Law Offices.
In April 24 letter to Domingo, CHGCCI through the Ocampo and Manalo Law Firm, informed Domingo that the gold course management “is currently undergoing liquidation and is continuing operations for that purpose.”
“In fact, CHGCCI’s liquidation is the subject of a proceeding currently pending before Branch 90, Regional Trial Court, Quezon City docketed as Case No. 11-261 entitled Filibon Tacardon vs. CHGCCI, et al.,” it told the city’s BPLO.In an April 19 two-page letter from the Madrid Danao and Carullo Litigators, the city government was requested to issue a CDO against the golf course management for operations “despite the expiration of its corporate life as of 25 January 2010.””Having confirmed CHGCCI’s continuing illegal operations, we respectfully and strongly beseech your honorable office to now issue a CDO against CHGCCI’s continued operations, lest it be perceived as giving CHGCCI unwarranted benefits at the expense of it shareholders and the general public,” the law firm said.
According to BPLO’s legal counsel, Rodolfo Dimaisip, the complainant, lawyer Rainier Madrid,was one of the stakeholders.
The golf course and country club located at the Capitol Hills Drive, Barangay Old Balara was established and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 22, 1960.
The fourth clause of the club’s by-laws stated “that the term for which said corporation is to exist is fifty (50) years from and after the date of the incorporation.”
Last week, Domingo clarified a CDO, not a closure order, was issued. He said the CDO was issued on the management of the private golf course to “give the party concerned a chance to wind up the operations until after we issue a closure order.”
