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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 890
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 890 -
PENALIZING THE UNAUTHORIZED SALVAGE OF VESSELS, WRECKS, DERELICTS AND
OTHER HAZARDS TO NAVIGATION AS WELL AS CARGOES CARRIED BY SUNKEN VESSELS
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WHEREAS,
Letter of Instruction No. 263 dated March 1, 1975 authorizes the
Philippine Coast Guard to issue permits to salvage derelicts and sunken
vessels or wrecks, and the Bureau of customs to issue permits to
salvage cargoes carried by sunken vessels;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in order to ensure full and strict compliance with the said
Letter of Instruction No. 263, it is necessary that certain penalties
be provided for unauthorized salvage operations.
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:cralaw:red
1. That henceforth it shall be unlawful for any
person to engage in the business or operation of salvaging vessels,
wrecks, derelicts and other hazards to navigation, or of salvaging
cargoes carried by sunken vessels, without first securing the required
salvage permit from competent authority pursuant to Letter of
Instruction No. 263, and any violator hereof shall, upon conviction, be
punished by a fine of not less than P100.00 nor more than P500.00 or
imprisonment for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than six (6)
months, or both, at the discretion of the Court.
2. If the offender is a juridical person, the
President or the Manager, or any other official in charge of the
management thereof, as the case may be, shall suffer the penalties
herein provided.
3. Any watercraft, equipment, tolls, paraphernalia or
instruments used in the salvage of vessels, wrecks, derelicts, and
other hazards to navigation, as well as the cargoes carried by the
vessels which are recovered in violation hereof, shall be impounded and
forfeited in favor of the government.
4. Independently of the criminal liability herein
provided, the Secretary of National Defense is hereby empowered to
impose, in the exercise of his discretion, an administrative fine for
violations hereof at such rates as may be fixed by him which in no case
shall exceed the amount of P1,000.00.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 9th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-six.
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