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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 635
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 635 -
AMENDING Section ONE HUNDRED TWELVE OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED ONE
HUNDRED FORTY-ONE, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE PUBLIC LAND LAW
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WHEREAS,
the infrastructure program of the Government has been adopted primarily
to hasten the economic development of the country;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, to carry out this program more effectively and to cope with
the demands of the ever growing traffic volume, advance planning and
programming for wider roads must be made;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in order to attain this objective, and to minimize to a great
extent the financial burden on the part of the Government in acquiring
the needed right-of-way for its public works projects, it is necessary
to amend further section 112 of Commonwealth Act No. 141, as
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution, do hereby
decree and order as follows:cralaw:red
Section 1. Section 112 of Republic Act No. 141, as
amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 112. Said land shall further be subject to a
right-of-way not exceeding sixty (60) meters in width for public
highways, railroads, irrigation ditches, aqueducts, telegraph and
telephone lines, and similar works as the Government or any public or
quasi-public service or enterprise, including mining or forest
concessionaires, may reasonably require for carrying on their business,
with damages for the improvements only."
Section 2. This Decree shall take effect
immediately. All acts inconsistent with this Decree are hereby repealed
or modified accordingly.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 7th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-five.
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