FURTHER AMENDING SECTIONS TWO, TEN AND FIFTEEN OF PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT, AS AMENDED, CREATING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HIGHWAYS.

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 636
• Sections: 6

Preamble

WHEREAS, there is urgent need for a Special Projects Service

in the Department of Public Highways which shall be responsible for the

management and implementation of all special projects financed wholly

or in part by foreign loans;

WHEREAS, there is likewise urgent need to provide the Bureau

of Construction and Maintenance in the Department of Public Highways

with an Administrative Division and the Bureau of Equipment with a Spare

Parts Division;

WHEREAS, the Secretary of Public Highways has strongly

endorsed the creation of the foregoing offices in order to enable the

Department to cope with its responsibilities and perform its function

with increased effectiveness and effeciency;

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. Section 2 of Presidential Decree No. 458, as

amended, is hereby further 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, the

Project Execution Service and the Special Projects Service; two bureaus,

namely: (a) the Bureau of Construction and Maintenance and (b) the

Bureau of Equipment; and the Regional and District Offices.

The Special Projects Service shall be headed by a Director and

assisted by an Assistant Director to be appointed by the President upon

recommendation of the Secretary of Public Highways."

Section 2

SEC. 2. The second paragraph of Section 10 of the same

decree, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"The Bureau shall be headed by a Director assisted by an

Assistant Director. It shall be composed of the following divisions: (a)

Design Division, (b) Construction Division, (c) Soils and Materials

Division, (d) Maintenance Division and (e) Administrative Division."

Section 3

SEC. 3. Section 15 of the same decree, as amended, is

hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 15. Functions and composition of the Bureau of

Equipment. — The Bureau of Equipment shall be responsible for the

management and control of all equipment belonging to the Department,

including their repair, maintenance and allocation to the department

field offices. It shall have an Administrative Division, a Financial and

Management Division, a Planning Division, an Operations Division,

Equipment Depots and Area Shops, and a Spare Parts Division."

Section 4

SEC. 4. All laws, decrees, rules and regulations

inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Section 5

SEC. 5. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of January, in the

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

(Sgd.)

FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.)

ROBERTO V. REYES

Acting Executive Secretary