REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5941 - AN
ACT AMENDING SECTIONS THREE AND FOUR OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THIRTEEN
HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE (RE: SALE OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT COTTAGES IN
BAGUIO AND THE LOTS ON WHICH THEY ARE BUILT, ETC.)
Section 1. Section s three and four of Republic Act Numbered
Thirteen hundred sixty-one are amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 3. The cottages and lots including furniture
and equipment shall be sold at public auction to the highest bidder
under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe:
Provided, That no cottage and lot including furniture and equipment may
be sold for less than the appraised actual value of each cottage and
lot including furniture and equipment as found by the Committee on
Appraisal: Provided, further, That no person or family shall buy more
than one cottage and the lot on which it is built including furniture
and equipment: Provided, furthermore, That no person who already owns
residential property in Baguio shall be allowed to participate in the
public auction to sell these cottages and lots including furniture and
equipment: Provided, furthermore, That every cottage and the lot on
which it is built including furniture and equipment in Jungle Town and
Engineer's Hill shall be sold, at a price to be fixed by the Committee
on Appraisal payable in ten yearly installments, to the present lessee
or occupant thereof who has continuously leased or occupied them for
not less than three years prior to the date of the approval of this
amendatory Act, unless such lessee or occupant refuses to exercise the
right herein granted within a period of six months from the date he is
notified in writing that such cottage and lot including furniture and
equipment are ready for sale to him as well as of the price thereof, in
which case the same shall be sold in like manner as the cottages and
lots including furniture and equipment not located in Jungle Town and
Engineer's Hill: And provided, finally, That if a lot and/or cottage is
excluded from the sale because the lot is needed as provided for in
Section two hereof, the occupant or lessee shall be assigned another
lot in Jungle Town and Engineer's Hill which shall be sold to him as
herein provided.
"Sec. 4. Except as provided for in Section three
hereof, no government official or employee or member of his family
shall be allowed to purchase any of the cottages and lots including
furniture and equipment, and any sale to such person shall be void:
Provided, That if a government official or employee is the occupant and
lessee of a cottage continuously for at least five years prior to the
approval of this amendatory Act, and does not own any residential lot
in the City of Baguio, he shall be allowed to purchase the same and be
given preference in the sale of the cottage and lot so occupied and
leased by him."
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969.
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