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City Ordinance No. 2029-03 of the City of Libertad prohibits: “No person shall engage in any conduct that disturbs the peace, order, or quiet of the city.” Penalties: fines up to PHP 4,500 or imprisonment up to 25 days. On a Friday at 12:15 a.m., street musician D performs with a portable speaker in a busy plaza; a passerby objects that the sound disturbs residents, and D is arrested. D challenges the ordinance as void-for-vagueness. (a) Identify the doctrine and the controlling rule. (b) Distinguish void-for-vagueness from overbreadth and evaluate whether the phrase “disturbs the peace, order, or quiet of the city” provides ascertainable standards for enforcement. (c) Apply to D’s facts and determine whether D’s conduct could be punished under the ordinance, or whether the ordinance is void-for-vagueness; if void, discuss possible remedies (e.g., severability or redrafting).

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The ordinance is void-for-vagueness; the controlling rule is that penal statutes must define the offense with ascertainable standards; the phrase 'disturbs the peace, order, or quiet' fails this standard; applying to D’s facts, the street musician’s conduct would not be punishable absent a narrower standard; possible remedies include severability or redrafting. The ordinance is void-for-vagueness; the proper remedy is to strike only the portion relating to speech, leaving other provisions intact (severability); applying to D, the rest of the ordinance could still regulate non-expressive disturbances. The ordinance is valid as to non-expressive disturbances but void for expressive activities; the busking would be protected expression and not punishable under the ordinance as written. The only effective remedy is redrafting to define 'disturbs the peace, order, or quiet' with objective standards (e.g., decibel limits, time-of-day restrictions); without redrafting, the ordinance remains void.

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