AMENDING SECTION TWO OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NUMBER FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT CREATING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HIGHWAYS.

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 548
• Sections: 3

Preamble

WHEREAS, under Section 2 of Presidential Decree No. 458,

only three (3) major services were provided as services units

under the Office of the Secretary of Public Highways, namely: the

Planning Service, the Administrative Service, and the Financial and

Management Service;

WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary to create a Project

Execution Service, which shall undertake the evaluation of the

performance of the different offices and units under the Department,

check the progress of work on projects, undertake fiscal analysis of the

expenditures of public works funds, as well as monitor and update

necessary and relevant data on construction work in order to keep the

Secretary well posted on the current status of on-going projects;

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:

Section 1

SECTION 1. The provision of Section 2 of Presidential Decree

No. 458 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. Organization of the Department of Public

Highways. — The Department of Public Highways, hereinafter called

the Department, shall be composed of a Department Proper made up of the

immediate Office of the Secretary, the Planning Service, the

Administrative Service, the Financial and Management Service, and the

Project Execution Service;"

Section 2

SEC. 2. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of September in the

year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.

(Sgd.)

FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.)

ALEJANDRO MELCHOR

Executive Secretary