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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 815
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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 815
- AMENDING Section 4 OF P.D. NO. 583, DATED NOVEMBER 16, 1975,
"PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR THE UNLAWFUL EJECTMENT, EXCLUSION, REMOVAL,
OR OUSTER OF TENANT-FARMERS FROM THEIR FARMHOLDINGS"
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WHEREAS,
there is an urgent need to further strengthen the security of tenure of
the tenant-farmers/agricultural lessees in the cultivation of the
landholding planted to rice and corn;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, despite various Decrees, Letter of Instructions and other
Orders as well as speeches and other pronouncements by me that tenant
farmers and agricultural lessees should be ejected or dispossessed of
the lands being cultivated by them, some landowners, landholders,
and/or agricultural lessors have resorted to various schemes and
devices with which to circumvent the aforementioned pronouncements;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in view of the numerous disturbing reports that many
landowners have subleased their tenanted landholding planted to rice
and corn to other persons so that the latter appears in their behalf as
the legal possessor thereof without binding the landowner in the event
of a violation of the aforementioned Presidential Decrees Nos. 316 and
583, the government must act with dispatch to protect the security of
tenure of our tenant/farmers/agricultural lessees; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, this scheme is patently directed against a vital program of
the New Society and cannot be tolerated, much less sanctioned, by the
government;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
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:cralaw:red
Section 1. Section 4 of P.D. No. 583 is hereby
amended as follows:cralaw:red
"Subject to the studies on zoning of the Human Settlements Commission
and unless previously authorized by the Secretary of Agrarian Reform,
any landowner, landholder, agricultural-lessor or anybody acting for
and in their behalf, who converts his tenanted land primarily devoted
to rice and corn into any non-agricultural use or into the production
of any other crop as a means to avoid the application of the land
reform laws or decrees to his landholdings and to dispossess his
tenant-farmers of the land tilled by them shall, upon conviction,
suffer the penalty of prision mayor or a fine ranging from P5,000.00 to
P10,000.00 or both, at the discretion of the Court. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"The same penalty shall be imposed on a landowner, landholder,
agricultural-lessor, or anybody acting for and in their behalf, who by
any other act, scheme or strategy shall eject, exclude, remove or oust
and/or cause the ouster, exclusion, removal or ejectment of a
tenant-farmer from his farmholdings in contravention of decrees, laws,
and other orders on land reform."
Section 2. All provisions of existing laws, orders,
decrees, rules and regulations inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed of modified accordingly.
Section 3. This decree shall take effect
immediately. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Done in the City of Manila,
this 21st day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-five.
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