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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 57 -
AUTHORIZING OWNERS AND/OR USERS OR UNREGISTERED OR UNAUTHORIZED
WATER/SEWER CONNECTIONS, DEVICES OR INSTRUMENTS TO COMPLY WITHOUT
PENALTY, UNDER THE “MWSS OPERATION LINIS” PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the national policy of this
Administration is to institute reconciliatory measures for the purpose
of promoting unity, coupled with discipline and the rule of law, among
the Filipino people, as instruments to enhance the development and
sustained growth of the national economy;
WHEREAS, in consonance with the prevailing thrust of the new
Administration, the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS)
has initiated the “MWSS Operation Linis” program in its effort to
provide better and efficient services to its customers, as well as to
increase its monthly revenue for the further expansions and improvement
of its existing facilities.
WHEREAS, with the fast-tracking of its capital projects, MWSS will be
progressively increasing delivery of water supplies to its legitimate
customers;
WHEREAS, reports have reached this Office that there is still a very
large number of unregistered or unauthorized water/sewer service
connections, devices and instruments and that this illicit practice has
resulted not only in the loss of revenue to the MWSS, but also in
depriving others of a fair share of precious water supply;
WHEREAS, in order to account for and collect all the revenues due the
MWSS which can be used for the improvement of its services, to be fair
to its paying customers, to discourage the profligate use of water and
to effect a more equitable water supply distribution, all for the good
of the greatest number, it is imperative to encourage the registration
of all unregistered or unauthorized water/sewer connections and/or the
removal of unregistered or unauthorized devices and instruments;
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Government to afford the owners/users
of unregistered or unauthorized water/sewer service connections,
devices and instruments the chance to voluntarily come out and register
their unauthorized connections, devices and instruments within the
ambit of MWSS rules and regulations;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby
order:
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c.
d.
In
return, the MWSS shall guarantee in favor of the owners/users availing
of this Executive Order the following:
a.
b.
c.
It
is expressly understood, however, that this Executive Order shall cover
only those unrecorded and unreported, unregistered or unauthorized
water/sewer service connections, and those recorded and reported but
not yet investigated and assessed, prior to the effectively hereof.
This Executive Order shall also cover services installed or connected
up to the present. Any water/sewer service connection or illegal device
discovered to have been installed during or after the grace period of
one (1) month shall immediately be cut-off or removed by the MWSS and
the owner/users thereof shall be charged for violation of Presidential
Decree No. 401, as amended by Batas Pambansa Blg. 876 and other
applicable penal laws for theft of water in addition to payment of
penalties to be prescribed in the MWSS implementing rules and
regulations.
2.
For this purpose, the MWSS is
hereby authorized to hire contractual census enumerators.
The MWSS may also opt to give
rewards to those who support unauthorized or unregistered connections,
devices and instruments under the existing MWSS rewards system.
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DONE, in the City of Manila, this 15th day of February in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-three.
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