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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 896
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 896 -
FURTHER AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4136, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LAND
TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC CODE
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I,
FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the
powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order and decree:cralaw:red
Section 1. Section 8, paragraph (d) of Republic Act
No. 4136 as amended by Presidential Decree No. 843 is hereby amended to
read as follows:cralaw:red
"(d) Private motor tricycles for three wheels the sum
of P30.00 and private motorcycles, scooters and bicycles with motor
attachments, of two wheels, the sum of P50.00.
Section 2. Section 8, paragraph (i) of the same Act
is hereby amended to read as follows:cralaw:red
"(i) Motor vehicles not intended to be operated or
used upon any public highway, or which are operated on highways not
constructed or maintained by the government, or are intended not to be
used or operated at all, shall be exempt from payment of the
registration fees provided in this Act, but shall each pay an annual
recording and service fee of fifteen pesos: Provided however, That no
refund, credit for, or reimbursement of registration fees or part
thereof shall be made to any owner on account of the discontinuance of
the use or operation of a motor vehicle subsequent to the payment of
such registration fees: Provided, however, That in the event motor
vehicles exempted under this section shall be found operated on any
public highway, the regular registration fees and surcharges shall be
collected in addition to whatever penalties may be imposed for
violation of this Act. The Commissioner of Land Transportation shall
provide distinctive number plates for vehicles exempted from payment of
regular registration fees, and the owner of the vehicles concerned
shall pay a plate fee as prescribed by the Land Transportation
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Section 3. Section 8, paragraph (k) of the same Act
is hereby amended to read as follows:cralaw:red
(k) The registration fees provided in this Act for
trucks may be payable in two equal installments, the first to be paid
on or before the last working day of March whether for hire or private;
and the second to be paid on or before the last working day of August;
Provided, That the fifty per cent penalty shall apply only to the
unpaid balance of the remaining period of delinquency.
Section 4. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 26th day February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-six.
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