The Cebu City Stockyard was created in 1952 by virtue of Cebu City Ordinance No. 138 dated September 4, 1952. The city stockyard established under the Office of the City Veterinarian to control and regulate the storage and confinement of domestic food animals and domestic poultry for purposes of sanitation.
The creation of the "city stockyard" comes with it the appointment of new city hall employees, among them the stockyard foreman, cleaners, watchman, and laborers.
The stockyard foreman had the duty of supervising the sanitation of the stockyards and its laborers. It also had the duty of supplying all domestic food animals and domestic poultry stored and confined therein with water for drinking and to prevent pilferage and injuries to the animals.
The stockyard foreman also supervises the proper disposal of dead animals and poultry and to cooperate with the city treasurer in the collection of stockyard fees. The foreman also keeps daily records of animals and poultry stored in and taken out.
Interestingly the ordinance provided that all domestic food animals and domestic poultry intended for slaughter at all city abattoirs and all those for shipment to Manila and other provinces shall be stored and confined in the city stockyard.
The ordinance provides that animals intended to be slaughtered at all city abattoirs should be stored and confined in the city stockyard at least 12 hours before the time of the slaughter.
As regulatory fees, the stockyard charges per day for each domestic food animal and domestic poultry stored and confined in the city stockyard twenty centavos for every cattle. The same fee shall be collected for every carabao and horse. For swine, sheep, and goat, a fee of ten centavos was collected while for domestic poultry it was one centavo.
The penalty for violating the ordinance shall be a fine of one hundred pesos or Imprisonment for not more than thirty days or both at the discretion of the court.
The secretary to the council at that time was Pio Abelgas Kabahar. Pio who changed his name to Piux, was a well known artist, composer, stage director, actor, and comedian. Pio or Piux was the son of Justo Kabajar, a revolutionary during the Cebuano uprising against Spain in 1898.
The brother of Justo by the name of Hugo was also a revolutionary leader. The mother of Pio was Margarita Abelgas.
Justo and Margarita had two children, Pio and Vicente. When the wife of Justo died, he remarried. The name of his second wife was Maria Enriquez. Justo and Maria had three children, namely, Amado, Soledad, and Paciencia.
Piux was the director of the first Cebuano/Visayan talking movie entitled Bertoldo and Balodoy. The aunt of Pio (sister of his father) by the name of Apolinaria married Ireneo Cabase, also a talented artist and composer.
The president of the municipal board that enacted the ordinance creating the city stockyard was lawyer Carlos J. Cuizon (who also served Cebu City as mayor).
The ordinance was approved by Mayor Jose Chiong Veloso Rodriguez who was a Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Rodriguez was also elected congressman. Rodriguez succeeded as mayor, Pedro Elizalde. Rodriguez was succeeded by Mayor Pedro B. Clavano.
The secretary to the mayor was Cornelio C. Magbanua. The other members of the municipal board of the city of Cebu who enacted the ordinance were Engr. Eulogio Enriquez Borres, Atty. Florentino D. Tecson, Jose A. Cavan, Atty. Florentino S. Urot, Atty. Casimiro V. Madarang, Atty. Generoso Jaca (he was from Moalboal, Cebu, he became a lawyer on May 11, 1950) and Luis V. Diores (he was admitted to the Bar on January 25, 1952), his son and namesake, Luis F. Diores Jr. also became a lawyer on May 6, 1982. Luis, nicknamed Lou, was a University of the Philippines College of Law graduate while an incumbent vice mayor ran for reelection in 1967 under the Nacionalista Party.