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ACT NO. 2573
ACT NO. 2573 - AN ACT PROVIDING FOR
THE MUTUAL INSURANCE OF WORK ANIMALS
Section 1. There is hereby created a division in the Bureau
of Agriculture to be known as the division for the mutual insurance of
work animals. The short title of said division shall be the "insurance
division." There is hereby created a society of owners of work animals
to insure such animals against death by making mutual contributions to
pay death losses. The name of such society shall be "Work Animals
Insurance Society."
Sec. 2. The management of the association shall be
vested in a board consisting of the Director of Agriculture, as
chairman, the Insular Treasurer, and a citizen of the Philippine
Islands who is acquainted with and interested in agriculture, as
members. Said third member shall be appointed by the Governor-General
and confirmed by the Upper House of the Legislature. The members of
this board shall serve without pay, except they shall be entitled to
their actual and necessary expenses while engaged in the performance of
their duties in connection herewith.
Sec. 3. Any resident of the Philippine Islands
being the owner of one or more work animals, either carabao or vacas,
shall be eligible for membership in said society.
Sec. 4. Any person qualified for membership may
join said society by paying to the treasurer of the municipality where
such person resides a membership fee of one peso if such person desires
to insure less than six work animals, two pesos if he desires to insure
more than five and less than eleven, five pesos if he desires to insure
more than ten and less than fifty and ten pesos if he desires to insure
fifty or more work animals. Said membership fee shall be collected but
once and shall be used to pay the expenses of administering the affairs
of said society.
Sec. 5. Whenever any person desires to become a
member of said society, he shall, in addition to paying the
above-mentioned membership fee, file with the municipal treasurer a
detailed description on blanks furnished by said society of each animal
which he desires to insure and at the same time, pay to said treasurer
three per cent of the value of each of said animals according to the
appraisement hereinafter provided, as his pro rata shares for his
insurance, whereupon at the expiration of thirty days from said date,
if such animal or animals be alive and in apparent good health, they
shall become insured hereunder. Said payment of three per cent of the
value of said work animal shall be payable annually in advance, and
whenever a member fails to make such payment he shall by that act cease
to be a member of said society: Provided, however, That the insurance
provided for herein shall not take effect or be in force until at least
fifty thousand work animals have been listed for insurance and their
premiums paid, whereupon the Director of Agriculture shall issue a
formal statement declaring this Act to be operative.
Sec. 6. At the end of each calendar month said
Insurance Board shall ascertain the number and value of work animals
insured hereunder that died during said month, whereupon the Insular
Auditor, within sixty days, upon the certificate of said Board, shall
issue a voucher upon the Insular Treasurer against the insurance fund
created by this Act, payable to the owner or owners of such animals,
respectively, for eighty per cent of the appraised value thereof, less
the value, it any, of the carcass of such animal.
Sec. 7. After a work animal has been accepted for
insurance hereunder it shall not thereafter be rejected on account of
age, but a carabao above fifteen years of age or under three years of
age, or a vaca above eight years of age or under three years of age,
shall not in the first instance be accepted for insurance
hereunder.
Sec. 8. For the purposes of this Act work animals
are hereby appraised as follows: carabaos, three to five years of age,
fifty to one hundred pesos; five to ten years of age, one hundred to
one hundred and fifty pesos; ten to fifteen years of age, fifty to one
hundred pesos. Work cattle, three to five years of age, fifty to ninety
pesos; five to eight years of age, eighty to one hundred and twenty
pesos; eight to twelve years of age, fifty to eighty pesos; twelve
years of age, no value. Said Board shall arrange a schedule of values
within this limits prescribed in this section. When an animal reaches
the age limit in any of the above-mentioned classes it shall
automatically pass to the succeeding class.
Sec. 9. Whenever a member of this society loses a
work animal by death, the same being insured herein, he shall cause
said animal, before the same is buried or otherwise disposed of, to be
viewed by two disinterested persons, one of whom shall be designated by
the municipal treasurer: Provided, That if the animal should pass the
age limit corresponding to the last class, it shall be considered as
assessed and paid for according to said class. Said member shall
thereupon file a statement, under oath, with the municipal treasurer,
on a blank furnished by said treasurer, setting out a description of
said animal, the date and cause of death, if known, and such other
facts as may be desired by said Insurance Board. In the event of a work
animal insured herein becoming unserviceable on account of sickness,
accident or any other cause, said Insurance Board shall, subject to the
regulations prescribed by the same, pay the value of said animal, less
the value of its carcass, if any. For the purposes of this Act,
municipal treasurers are authorized to administer oaths.
Sec. 10. No new or additional members shall be
accepted in any municipality while such municipality is known to be
infected with rinderpest.
Sec. 11. At the end of each year the Insurance
Board shall, after exhausting the membership fees, deduct from the
amounts received during the year as insurance premiums losses that have
been paid for and losses which remain unpaid, together with the unpaid
balance of expenses of administration. Fifty per cent of the surplus of
the premiums shall be placed in a reserve fund to meet future
contingencies, and fifty per cent of said surplus shall be distributed
among the members of the association in proportion to the amounts paid
by them as premium during the year.
Sec. 12. Animals which have been immunized against
rinderpest by the Bureau of Agriculture may be insured hereunder, but
such animals shall constitute a separate class. They shall be appraised
twenty per cent higher than non-immunized animals and the assessment
collected shall be twenty per cent less than the assessment collected
for insuring non-immunized animals of the corresponding class.
Sec. 13. Any person who shall kill any work animal
for the purpose or with the intent to secure insurance hereunder, or
who shall falsely represent that a work animal hereunder is dead, or in
any way cheat or defraud the said society, shall be punished by
imprisonment not to exceed six months or a fine not to exceed two
hundred pesos, or both, and may be deprived of his right to collect the
insurance or required to refund the same should it have been paid, and
he shall also be dropped from the roll of membership and shall not
thereafter be eligible for membership in said society.
Sec. 14. Whenever the owner of an animal insured
hereunder should transfer his rights in and to the said animal by
mortgage, sale, conveyance or by testate or intestate succession, his
interest in the insurance policy shall pass to the person to whom said
animal is mortgaged, sold or conveyed, or to the person taking his
interest in said animal.
Sec. 15. So far as this Act imposes duties upon
public officials such duties shall be a part of the public duties of
said officials, and shall be performed without additional
compensation.
Sec. 16. This Act shall take effect upon its
passage.
Enacted, February 4, 1916.
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