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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1505
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1505
- AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 260, AS AMENDED, BY PROHIBITING THE
UNAUTHORIZED MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, REPAIR AND DESTRUCTION OF
ORIGINAL FEATURES OF ALL NATIONAL SHRINES, MONUMENTS, LANDMARKS AND
OTHER IMPORTANT HISTORIC EDIFICES
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WHEREAS,
Presidential Decree No. 260 dated August 1, 1973, as amended, has
declared certain sites, churches and places as national shrines,
monuments, and/or landmarks, and placed their preservation, restoration
and/or reconstruction under the supervision and control of the National
Historical Institute in collaboration with the Department of Tourism;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, Section 4 of said Presidential Decree specifically vests the
National Historical Institute with the right to declare historical and
cultural sites and edifices as national shrines, monuments, and/or
landmarks;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 1 dated September 24, 1972
reorganizing the government, has assigned to the National Historical
Institute the preservation, restoration, and/or reconstruction of
several historic sites and buildings;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, some private individuals and entities have undertaken the
repair and alteration of historic edifices without the prior written
permission of the National Historical Institute resulting in the change
of the original features of such edifices;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, such moves adversely affect the efforts of the Philippine
government, in general and of the National Historical Institute, in
particular, in the preservation of our cultural heritage through the
conservation of our historic sites and buildings; and
WHEREAS, there is a need to safeguard the improvements that have been
made by the National Historical Institute in the development,
preservation, reconstruction and restoration of said national shrines,
and to prevent the careless and unscientific modification of the
original features of important monuments, landmarks and historic
edifices.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in by the Constitution,, do hereby order
and decree: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 1. Presidential Decree No. 260 is hereby
amended by inserting another section after Section 4 to read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 5. It shall be unlawfully for any person to
modify, alter, repair or destroy the original features of any national
shrine, monument, landmark and other important historic edifices
declared and classified by the National Historical Institute as such
without the prior written permission from the Chairman of said
Institute.
Any person who shall violate this Decree shall, upon conviction, be
punished by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than five
years or a fine of not less than one thousand pesos nor more than ten
thousand pesos or both, at the discretion of the court or tribunal
concerned." chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 2. Sections 5 and 6 of the same Decree are
hereby renumbered Section 6 and 7 respectively.
Section 3. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-eight.
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