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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1605
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1605 -
GRANTING THE METROPOLITAN MANILA COMMISSION CERTAIN POWERS RELATED TO
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL IN METROPOLITAN MANILA, PROVIDING
PENALTIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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WHEREAS,
under Presidential Decree No. 824, as amended by Presidential Decree
No. 1274, the Metropolitan Manila Commission was created, among others,
to act as contract government to establish and administer programs and
provide services common to the area, and to establish and operate a
transport and traffic center which shall direct traffic activities;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, traffic congestion in Metropolitan Manila has reached alarming
and critical proportions and the institution of highly efficient
traffic management system particularly relating to traffic violations
has become imperative to remove or at least minimize the difficulties,
discomfort and inconvenience of the residents and sojourners therein;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, it is now high time that the Metropolitan Manila Commission be
afforded greater authority and support in carrying out its said
responsibility by rationalizing the use of roads, streets and
thoroughfares in Metropolitan Manila and penalizing traffic violators
to ease the traffic problem.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree the following:cralaw:red
Section 1. The Metropolitan Manila Commission shall
have the power to impose fines and otherwise discipline drivers and
operators of motor vehicles for violations of traffic laws, ordinances,
rules, and regulations in Metropolitan Manila in such amounts and under
such penalties as are herein prescribed. For this purpose, the powers
of the land Transportation Commission and the Board of Transportation
under existing laws over such violations and punishment thereof are
hereby transferred to the Metropolitan Manila Commission. When the
proper penalty to be imposed is suspension or revocation of driver's
license or certificate of public convenience, the Metropolitan Manila
Commission or its representatives shall suspend or revoke such license
or certificate. The suspended or revoked driver's license or the report
of suspension or revocation of the certificate of public convenience
shall be sent to the Land Transportation Commission or the Board of
Transportation, as the case may be, for their records update. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 2. Operators of public utility motor vehicles
or owners of private motor vehicles or their attachments, if any, which
shall stall on public roads, streets or thoroughfares in Metropolitan
Manila shall pay a fine of two hundred pesos (P200.00) to the
Metropolitan Manila Commission, through the city or municipal treasurer
of the locality where the vehicles stalled, which shall allocate
portions thereof to the local government units of Metropolitan Manila
to be used exclusively for traffic management and control activities in
that particular local government. In addition thereto, for vehicles
towed by traffic enforcement agencies, a towing fee shall be imposed in
such amounts as may be determined by the Commission, which shall be
paid to the treasurer of the city or municipality where the vehicles
are impounded.
For the effective implementation of this section, the Metropolitan
Manila Commission is hereby empowered to prescribe penalties and
surcharges, the manner of impounding and disposition of stalled motor
vehicles and their attachments, and on other related matters.
Section 3. Violations of traffic laws, ordinances,
rules and regulations, committed within a twelve-month period, reckoned
from the date of birth of the license, shall subject the violator to
graduated fines as follows: P10.00 for the first offense, P20.00 for
the second offense, P50.00 for the third offense, a one year suspension
of driver's license for the fourth offense, and a revocation of the
driver's license for the fifth offense: Provided, That the Metropolitan
Manila Commission may impose higher penalties as it may deem proper for
violations of its ordinances prohibiting or regulating the use of
certain public roads, streets or thoroughfares in Metropolitan Manila.
In case of death, physical injury, or damage to property, the payment
to the aforecited fine shall not relieve the offender from any civil as
well as criminal liability arising from such death, physical injury, or
damage to property.
Section 4. All fines imposed by the Metropolitan
Manila Commission for traffic violations under this Decree, if
uncontested, shall be paid either to the city or municipal treasurer of
the locality in Metropolitan manila where the offense or violation was
committed, or to the Philippine National Bank or the Philippine
Veterans Bank and their branches. These treasurers and banks shall
immediately transfer all collections to the Metropolitan Manila
Commission which shall hold the fund and allocate the same to be used
exclusively for traffic management and control activities therein.
Section 5. In case of traffic violations, the
driver's license shall not be confiscated but the erring driver shall
be immediately issued a traffic citation ticket prescribed by the
Metropolitan Manila Commission which shall state the violation
committed, the amount of fine imposed for the violation and an advice
that he can make payment to the city or municipal treasurer where the
violation was committed or to the Philippine National Bank or
Philippine Veterans Bank or their branches within seven days from the
date of issuance of the citation ticket.
If the offender fails to pay the fine imposed within the period herein
prescribed, the Metropolitan Manila Commission or the law-enforcement
agency concerned shall endorse the case to the proper fiscal for
appropriate proceedings preparatory to the filing of the case with the
competent traffic court, city or municipal court.
If at the time a driver renews his driver's license and records show
that he has unpaid fine, his driver's license shall not be renewed
until he has paid the fine and corresponding surcharges.
Section 6. The PC METROCOM, the Metropolitan Police
Force and the Constabulary Highway Patrol Group shall assist the
Metropolitan Manila Commission in enforcing and carrying out the
provisions of this Decree. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 7. The Metropolitan Manila Commission shall
promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the proper and effective
implementation of this Decree.
Section 8. Insofar as the Metropolitan Manila area is
concerned, all laws, decrees, orders, ordinances, rules and
regulations, or parts thereof inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed
or modified accordingly.
Section 9. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila on
this 21st day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and seventy-eight.
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