IMPROVED DESIGN. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Mindanao Regional Office presents the new PHP1,000 bill in Davao City Monday (June 13, 2022). The agency said the note will be circulated in Mindanao soon. (Contributed photo) DAVAO CITY - Officials of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Mindanao Regional Office urged the public Monday to treat the new polymer banknote with care, as simply stapling it can be considered as "intended mutilation" punishable by law. "Those who are accustomed to stapling banknotes, the polymer ones should not be stapled. Unlike the paper banknote, you can take the staples out, and it will just leave holes (but the polymer ones will rip," said Dorothy Joy Diaz, BSP Mindanao Regional Office bank officer. She added: "If it rips, then it is a mutilated banknote. Violators can be charged under the Presidential Decree 247." Presidential Decree 247 or the Central Bank Act states that willful defacement, mutilation, ripping, burning or