EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 570
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 570 - CREATING
A TASK FORCE TO UNDERTAKE LAND ASSEMBLY AND OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT
REGISTRY ACTIVITIES IN DECLARED BAGONG LIPUNAN SITES AND URBAN LAND
REFORM ZONES
WHEREAS,
Presidential Decree No. 1396 mandates the Ministry of Human Settlements
with the management of urban development through the formulation of
plans and programs and the implementation of projects for new town
development and land assembly and real property management;
WHEREAS, the Ministry is consequently empowered under Presidential
Decree No. 1517 to utilize land assembly and other innovative land
acquisition techniques and to establish official developmental
registries in areas declared as Urban Land Reform Zones and Bagong
Lipunan Sites;
WHEREAS, there is a need to initiate the development of such Bagong
Lipunan Sites and Urban Land Reform Zones, with the Lungsod Silangan
site and its adjacent area being developed as a model;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, by the power vested in me by
the Constitution do hereby order the following:
Section 1. There is hereby created a Task Force to
undertake land assembly and official development registry activities in
declared Bagong Lipunan Sites and Urban Land Reform Zones to be placed
under the supervision of the Ministry of Human Settlements with the
following primary functions:
a)
to undertake land assembly operation in Lungsod Silangan and in the
areas peripheral to take Marikina-Infanta Road identified by the
Ministry of Human Settlements in its Lungsod Silangan Development Plan
and approved by the President of the Philippines as Bagong Lipunan
Sites and Urban Land Reform Zones;
b) to initiate
the establishment of official development registries in such areas as a
basis for land acquisition and disposition;
c) to secure
the area from squatting of any kind; and
d) to utilize
other innovative land acquisition techniques, other than land assembly
in such areas.
Sec. 2. The Task Force shall be composed of: (a)
the Deputy Minister, Ministry of Human Settlements as Chairman; (b) the
Commanding General, Philippine Constabulary; and (c) the Director,
Bureau of Lands as Members. In addition, the Task Force may involve the
Land Registration Commission and the local government executives
concerned in membership of its various committees as authorized under
Sec. 5 of this Order.
Sec. 3. In undertaking land assembly and official
development registry activities in the Lungsod Silangan site and its
adjacent area, the Task Force shall exercise the following powers and
responsibilities;
a)
to set up temporary field offices to secure the area and promulgate and
implement rules and regulations related to the security of the
area;
b) to set up
temporary field offices of the Land Registration Commission which will
process land claims in the area;
c) to
designate and develop resettlement sites within or without the area for
displaced farmers and tenants;
d) to
establish a public information office to liaise with the tenants and
farmers of the area and undertake the promotion and publication of
information, studies and investigation on all aspects of the area’s
development;
e) to cause to
implement, supervise and monitor all projects of the Human Settlements
Development Corporation and the National Housing Authority and other
related projects of government agencies identified in the Lungsod
Silangan Development Plan;
f) to identify
such other projects and sectoral programs necessary for the development
of Lungsod Silangan in the integrative Human Settlements approach;
g) to contract
with international and local specialists in planning, academic and
authorities and institutions research and consultancy service in
specified areas related to human settlements problems as may further
the attainment of the objectives of this order;
h) to
establish and supervise a working staff which shall keep records,
abstracts, collate and synthesize studies of the area’s development;
i) to
determine the qualifications and fix the compensation of its members,
working staff and other personnel which it is hereby authorized to hire
for administrative operations; and to appoint, discipline, and remove
its employees; provided, excess as to the technical staff and such
other positions as one highly technical policy determining or primarily
confidential in nature, all positions in the Task Force shall be
subject to the coverage of the plans of the Office of Compensation and
Position Classification;
j) to apply
for, receive and accept from sources within and without the
Philippines, for its own use and not for sale, grants or donations of
equipment, materials or services. Such grants or donations shall be
exempt from gift taxes and shall be deductible from the net taxable
income of the grantor, or donor, and the donee, upon certification of
the Task Force; provided, however, that any grant or donation received
in accordance with this order shall be disclosed to the President
through a report by the Task Force;
k) to adopt
rules and procedures for its governance;
l) to
undertake and perform such other activities as may be assigned by the
President of the Philippines.
Sec. 4. The Chairman of the Task Force shall have
the following duties and responsibilities:
a)
preside over meetings of the Task Force;
b) hire and
maintain such working group staff or personnel as may be necessary to
carry out the purposes and objectives of the Task Force;
c) administer,
obligate, and disburse appropriations, gifts or donations upon approval
by a majority of the members of the Task Force;
d) constitute
continuing ad hoc committees consisting of the members of the Task
Force and such other experts as are necessary to assist the Task Force
in the discharge of its functions;
e) call upon
the Land Registration Commission and the Bureau of Lands to complete
all data requirements, the operational expenses for such activity of
which shall be charged against existing current appropriations of the
two agencies;
f) receive
gifts or donations in whatever form and from whatever source;
Sec. 5. As may be necessary in its Operations, the
Task Force shall create committees to assist it in its tasks and
functions. Such committees shall have the membership of concerned and
affected local governments and local government entities.
Sec. 6. In order to facilitate the implementation
of its tasks and execution of its functions, the Task Force shall have
the power to call upon any ministry, bureau, office agency or
instrumentality of the government for such assistance as it may
require.
Sec. 7. The Amount of TEN MILLION PESOS
(P10,000,000) is hereby appropriated for the operations of the Task
Force for calendar year 1979 and shall be released to the Task Force
through the Ministry of Human Settlements out of any available funds
from the National Treasury not other appropriated. The amount of
P2,000,000 shall be utilized for current operating expenditures and
P8,000,000 for the capital outlay needs of the development of the area.
For the succeeding calendar year, and until the termination of the Task
Force, the budgetary requirements shall be provided for in the General
Appropriations Act of the government in such amounts as shall be
adequate for the purpose.
Sec. 8. Operating expenses and capital
expenditures to be incurred by national government agencies for
implementation of projects and programs in the area shall be charged to
the budgetary appropriations of the implementing agencies or other
applicable appropriations subject to the provisions of Sec. 21 of
Presidential Decree No. 1177.
Sec. 9. The Task Force shall submit to the
President of the Philippines a report of its accomplishments within
sixty (60) days upon approval of this Order and quarterly thereafter.
Sec. 10. This Order shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Baguio,
this 29th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and seventy-nine.
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