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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 677
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 677 -
AMENDING Section 7 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3019, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE
KNOWN AS THE ANTI-GRAFT AND CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT
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WHEREAS,
the program of reform in the government under the New Society has been
endorsed overwhelmingly by the people in the referendum held on
February 27, 1975; and chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, as a continuing instrument of the reform program and in
consonance with the dictum that the life of a public officer is an open
book and subject to scrutiny, all government officials and employees
must account at frequent intervals their financial position in order
that they will be beyond suspicion and reproach.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
decree and order that —chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 1. Section 7 of Republic Act No. 3019, as
amended, is further amended to read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 7. Statement of assets and liabilities. — Every
public officer, within thirty days after assuming office, and within
the month of January of every year thereafter, as well as upon the
expiration of his term of office, or upon his resignation or separation
from office, shall prepare and file with the office of the
corresponding Department Head, or in the case of a Head of Department
or Chief of an independent office, with the Office of the President, a
true detailed and sworn statement of assets and liabilities, including
a statement of the amounts and sources of his income, the amounts of
his personal and family expenses and the amount of income taxes paid
for the next preceding calendar year; Provided, That public officers
assuming office less than two months before the end of the calendar
year, may file their first statement, on the following month of
January."
Section 2. The provision of this Decree shall take
effect beginning January, 1976, for the statement pertaining to the
calendar year 1975.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 31st day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-five.
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