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BATAS PAMBANSA BILANG. 74BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 74 - AN ACT
AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FORTY-ONE HUNDRED
AND THIRTY-SIX, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LAND TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC
CODE
Section 1.
Section s five, seven and eight of Republic Act Numbered Forty-one
hundred and thirty-six, otherwise known as the Land Transportation and
Traffic Code, are hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 5.
Compulsory registration of motor vehicles. — (a) All motor vehicles and
trailer of any type used or operated on or upon any highway of the
Philippines must be registered with the Bureau of Land Transportation
for the current year in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
"(b) The dates of annual registration of motor
vehicles shall be based on a registration scheme to be prepared by the
Bureau of Land Transportation subject to approval of the Minister of
Transportation and Communications. The scheme shall provide for a
system that will distribute the registration of motor vehicles
equitably over different months in a calendar year. Said scheme and
rates shall not be changed more often than once every three (3) years,
and only upon due notice given to the public at least ninety (90)
calendar days before the effectivity of such registration scheme.
"Any registration of motor
vehicles not renewed or before the date fixed by the Bureau of Land
Transportation shall become delinquent and invalid.
"(c) Dealer's Report. — Dealers shall submit to the
Director of Land Transportation a report concerning the sale or
transfer of or any other transaction involving motor vehicles,
including such information as importation, manufacturing data, and
number of stocks remaining, as the Director may require for the
effective enforcement of the provision of this Act within five (5)
working days from such sale, transfer or transaction. Such dealers
shall furnish also the buyer with a duplicate copy thereof, duly
authenticated by the Director of Land Transportation.
"(d) Unauthorized repair of change of engine serial
number. — Unless satisfactorily explained to and approved by the
Director of Land Transportation, no repair involving the restoration of
the original or registered serial number as stamped on the engine shall
be allowed. No change involving an alteration of or tampering with the
original or registered engine serial number of a motor vehicle shall
ever be allowed, and any motor vehicle with a trace of having its
engine serial number altered or tampered with shall be refused
registration or re-registration.
"(e)
Encumbrances of motor vehicles. — Mortgages, attachments, and other
encumbrances of motor vehicles, in order to be valid against third
parties must be recorded in the Bureau. Voluntary transactions or
voluntary encumbrances shall likewise be properly recorded on the face
of all outstanding copies of the certificates of registration of the
vehicle concerned.
"Cancellation or foreclosure of such mortgages, attachments, and other
encumbrances shall likewise be recorded, and in the absence of such
cancellation, no certificate of registration shall be issued without
the corresponding notation of mortgage, attachment and/or other
encumbrances.
"Records of encumbrances of motor vehicles shall be kept by the Bureau
of Land Transportation in chronological and/or alpha-numerical and/or
any other sequence and shall contain, among other things, the time,
date, number of the entry, and other cross-indexing entries for
immediate data retrieval, in a "Book of Motor Vehicle Encumbrances"
referring to the creation, cancellation or foreclosure of the aforesaid
mortgages, attachments or to other encumbrances.
"The Bureau of Land Transportation shall collect a fee of Fifty Pesos
(P50.00) for every annotation of a mortgage, attachment and/or other
encumbrances or cancellation thereof."
"Sec. 7.
Registration Classification. — The classification of vehicles shall be:
(1) Private
(2) For Hire
(3) Government
(4) Diplomatic
"Within ninety days from the approval of this Act, appropriate
subclassifications shall be determined by the Director of Land
Transportation with the approval of the Minister of Transportation and
Communications, taking into consideration the body configuration,
weight, cubic displacement and/or number of cylinders of the motor
vehicle.
"(a) Private. — Motor vehicles registered under this
classification shall not be used for hire under any circumstance.
"(b) For Hire.
— Motor vehicles registered under this classification are those covered
by certificates of public convenience, or special permits issued by the
Board of Transportation, and shall be subject to the provisions of the
Public Service Act and the rules and regulations issued thereunder, as
well as the provisions of this Act.
"(c) Government. — Motor vehicles owned by the
government of the Philippines or any of its political subdivisions
shall be registered under this classification.
"(d) Diplomatic. — Motor vehicles owned by foreign
governments or by their duly accredited diplomatic officers in the
Philippines and used in the discharged of their official duties.
Tourists bringing their own motor vehicles to the Philippines may,
however, without registering such motor vehicles, use the same during
but not after ninety (90) days of their sojourn: Provided, That the
motor vehicle displays the number plates for the current year of some
other country or state, and said number plates as well as the name and
address (permanent and temporary) of the thereof are registered in the
Bureau of Land Transportation prior to the operation of the motor
vehicle.
"If such tourists remain in the
Philippines longer than ninety (90) days, the motor vehicle shall not
be operated unless registered in accordance with this Act and the
corresponding registration fees paid."
"Sec. 8. Schedule of Registration Fees. — Except
as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, each application for
registration of motor vehicles shall be accompanied by an annual
registration fee in accordance with a schedule to be prepared by the
Bureau of Land Transportation subject to the approval of the Minister
of Transportation and Communications in consultation with the Minister
of Finance. The fees in the schedule shall be fixed on the basis of the
model, body configuration, weight, cubic displacement or number of
cylinders of the motor vehicle and other relevant factors. Said
schedule shall not be changed more often than once every three (3)
years, and only upon due notice given to the public at least ninety
(90) calendar days before the effectivity of such schedule: "Provided,
however, That beginning the calendar year 1981 and until changed
pursuant to this section, the schedule of registration fees shall be as
follows:
Type Gas Diesel
Bantam Cars 0-1600 cc Private
P300.00 P250.00
For Hire 450.00
400.00
Light Cars 1601-1280 cc Private
600.00 550.00
For Hire 900.00
800.00
Heavy Cars 2801-over Private
1,500.00 1,200.00
For Hire
2,500.00 2,000.00
Trucks/Buses, including
all types of utility vehicles
(per 100 kg. of gross
vehicle weight) Private
20.00 2.00
For Hire 30.00
15.00
Trailers (per 100 kg.
of gross weight) Private P10.00
For Hire 12.00
Mopeds (0-49 cc) P60.00
Mopeds (50-cc over)
Without sidecar Private 120.00
With sidecar Private 150.00
Without sidecar For Hire 150.00
With sidecar For Hire 240.00
"Provided, further, That
registration fees for vehicles owned by the government and its
political subdivisions shall be determined in consultation with the
Minister of the Budget and within the constraints imposed by available
funds: Provided, further, That all motor vehicles, regardless of type
and/or classification, which are exclusively used and operated on
private roads shall be subject to a recording fee of One Hundred Pesos
(P100.00) only, for which stickers in lieu of regular plates shall be
issued corresponding to the year of recording: Provided, finally, that
such vehicles shall not be required to be physically brought to the
office of the Bureau of Land Transportation for recording nor to be
covered by compulsory vehicle insurance as required for registration
purposes.
"For uniformity of registration fees and classification, all
manufacturers and/or assemblers of motor vehicles, prior to the
introduction of a new model motor vehicle, shall submit the
specifications of said model to the Bureau of Land Transportation which
shall determine under what schedule of registration fees the said model
should fall."
Sec. 2. All references to the "Land Transportation
Commission" or "Commissioner" in any other provision of Republic Act
Numbered Forty-one hundred thirty-six, as amended, shall be
automatically substituted with the words "Bureau of Land
Transportation" and/or "Director", as the case may be; and all other
section or portions thereof which are inconsistent with this Act and/or
Executive Order Numbered Five Hundred forty-six are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 11, 1980.
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