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NO. 51-97
TO:
ALL CLERKS OF COURT OF THE METROPOLITAN TRIAL COURTS, MUNICIPAL TRIAL
COURTS
IN CITIES, MUNICIPAL TRIAL COURTS AND MUNICIPAL CIRCUIT TRIAL COURTS
SUBJECT:
REPORT OF CASES ON VIOLATION OF TRAFFIC LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS
ORDAINED
UNDER R.A. 4136, as AMENDED.
The fatal vehicular
incidents that occurred on the same day on June 22, 1996 in Gumaca,
Quezon
and Leyte, wherein more than thirty (30) persons died, prompted
President
Fidel V. Ramos to send written instructions to Assistant Secretary
Manuel
F. Bruan, Head of the Land Transportation Office [LTO] " to institute
stricter
measures to improve public safety on roads especially Vehicle and
Driver
safety."
Although such serious
vehicular accidents usually wind up in Courts, and the guilty party
meted
the penal sanction, nonetheless the accessory penalty as to whether the
driver's license would be revoked or suspended would suffer the fate of
oblivion. The principal cause is failure of Clerks of Court to furnish
the LTO or its nearest agency a copy of the judgment of conviction or
acquittal.
Such lamentable state of complacency cannot be condoned.
Pursuant, therefore,
to Sections 4[d], 8 and 58 in relation to Sections 16, 27 and 29 of
R.A.
4136 as amended, in order to achieve the objectives thereof, ie.,
of instilling traffic discipline and fulfilling vehicle safety, driver
safety and road safety in our highways, upon request of Assistant
Secretary
Manuel F. Bruan, Head of the Local Transportation Office, you are
hereby
ordered:chanroblesvirtuallawlibrary
1. To
submit by
registered mail to the LTO, East Avenue, Quezon City, at the end of
each
month, a list of all cases, criminal or civil, involving violations of
any provisions of the aforementioned Act or of other laws and
ordinances
relating to motor vehicles disposed of by your respective Courts during
the month, indicating in each case, the name and address of the driver
or owner of the vehicle, the number and date of issue of his license
and/or
of the Certificate of Registration of the vehicle and the offense of
which
the driver/owner was convicted or acquitted. Only positive reports
including
change in the status of previously reported cases are required. No
report
is necessary if there is no case filed or if there is no change in the
status of previously reported cases.
2. To
forward by
courier service to the nearest agency of LTO for suspension or
revocation
pursuant to Section 29 of the said ACT, all licenses of drivers whose
cases
remain unsettled after fifteen [15] days from the date of apprehension.cralaw:red
Non-compliance
herewith
shall be treated as an administrative offense and dealt with
accordingly.
July 15, 1997.
[Sgd.]
ALFREDO
L. BENIPAYOCourt
Administrator
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