REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4777 - AN ACT
AMENDING SECTIONS TWO AND FOUR OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED THREE THOUSAND
SIX HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO CREATE THE HUNDRED ISLANDS
CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, DEFINING ITS POWERS, DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES"
Section 1. Section two of Republic Act Numbered Three
thousand six hundred fifty-five is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. The governing body of the Hundred Islands
Conservation and Development Authority shall be composed of the
Secretary of Public Works and Communications, as chairman, and the
Commissioner of Tourism, the Fisheries Commissioner, Director of Plant
Industry and the District Engineer of Pangasinan, as members, and the
last three shall at the same time serve as Directors of the Park
Resources Conservation, Horticulture and Development, respectively.
This body shall be entrusted with the administration of the domain of
the Authority and empowered to appoint its staff and personnel as well
as to provide its own rules for the conduct of its business."
Sec. 2. Section four of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 4. The sum of five hundred thousand pesos is
hereby appropriated, out of the funds of the National Treasury, for the
use of the Hundred Islands Conservation and Development Authority,
which shall be made available in fiscal year nineteen hundred
sixty-three-nineteen hundred sixty-four: provided, however, that not
more than two hundred thousand pesos thereof shall be used to asphalt
or pave with concrete portions of the Tarlac-Pangasinan and the
Pangasinan-Zambales Roads, including the Poblacion-Lucap Road, leading
to Lucap, Alaminos. The same amount shall be appropriated for the same
purposes every year during the next succeeding three years. The initial
sum may be advanced from any immediately disposable fund of the
government to be replaced as soon as the appropriation provided for in
this Act is available.
"As soon as the Hundred Islands Conservation and Development Authority
begins to derive any revenue out of any improvements, establishments or
services that it provides or authorizes to operate, such revenue shall
be divided as follows: fifty per cent for its own work of maintenance,
conservation and development: twenty-five per cent for the provincial
government of Pangasinan and the other twenty-five per cent to be
distributed among the municipalities bordering the foreshore area in
proportion to the length of their respective shorelines included in the
area placed under the Authority's jurisdiction."
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 18, 1966
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