Presidential Decree No. 1327 (PD 1327) — Creating Barangay Vitalez in the Municipality of Parañaque Metro-Manila
WHEREAS, the basic objective of government is to accelerate
the pace of socio-economic development throughout the country;
WHEREAS, the government, has engaged in intensified
development projects geared towards the upliftment of the socio-economic
well-being of our people.
WHEREAS, in the execution of the said governmental projects,
close supervision by local officials is a necessity so as to at least
approximate a certain degree of achievement which will contribute to a large
extent towards the political, social and economic upliftment of the residents of
the localities involved;
WHEREAS, it has been the steady desire of the inhabitants of
the area affected to create the proposed barangay so as to effectively attain
the goals of the New Society throughout the land;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution, do hereby
order and decree, as part of the law of the land, the following:
SECTION 1. The following subdivisions known as Baltao,
Airlanes Village, Jetlane Village, Gat Mendoza and Vitalez in Barangay Tambo in
the Municipality of Parañaque, Metro-Manila, is hereby detached and separated
therefrom to form and constitute into a distinct and independent barangay which
created to be known as Barangay Vitalez without affecting in any manner the
legal existence of the mother barangay Tambo.
SEC. 2. Except as hereinafter provided, all provisions of
law, now or hereafter applicable to regular barangays, shall be applicable to
barangay Vitalez.
SEC. 3. The present elective barangay officials of Barangay
Tambo shall continue to perform their duties as such officials in the newly
created Barangay Vitalez until the barangay officials of said barangay shall
have been appointed by the President. Such officials so appointed shall hold
office until their successors shall have been elected in the regular election
for barangay officials following the issuance of this Decree and shall have
qualified, unless sooner removed at the pleasure of the President. Such
appointive officers and employees as may be necessary to organize or to complete
the government personnel of the barangay Vitalez shall be appointed as provided
for under existing laws.
SEC. 4. Upon the effectivity of this Decree, the
proportionate share of Barangay Vitalez in the obligations, funds, assets and
other property of Barangay Tambo shall be transferred by the President to the
newly created barangay upon the recommendation of the Commission on Audit.
SEC. 5. All laws or parts of laws as well as all executive
orders or regulations, inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.
SEC. 6. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila this 3rd day of April, in the year of Our Lord,
nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.
(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the
Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Assistant
Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).
