Presidential Decree No. 1336 (PD 1336) — Creating Barangay Talon Tres in the Municipality of Las Piñas, 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 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 Carmencita,
Paramount, Admiral Park, Pelayo, Aristocrat, Doña Purisima and Golden Gate in
Barangay Talon in the Municipality of Las Piñas, Metro-Manila, is hereby
detached and separated therefrom to form and constitute into a distinct and
independent barangay which is created to be known as Barangay Talon Tres without
affecting in any manner the legal existence of the mother barangay Talon.
SEC. 2. Except as hereinafter provided, all provisions of
law, now or hereafter applicable to regular barangays, shall be applicable to
barangay Talon Tres.
SEC. 3. The present elective barangay officials of Barangay
Talon shall continue to perform their duties as such officials in the newly
created Barangay Talon Tres 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 elections
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 Barangay Talon Tres shall be appointed as provided
for under existing laws.
SEC. 4. Upon the effectivity of this Decree, the
proportionate share of Barangay Talon Tres in the obligations, funds, assets and
other property of Barangay Talon 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
Republic of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Assistant
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