Presidential Decree No. 838 (PD 838) — Creating the Municipality of Kalingalan Caluang in the Province of Sulu.
WHEREAS, it has been observed that the Municipality of Luuk,
province of Sulu, covers a vast land area wherein the present local
officials can hardly cope with the maintenance of peace and order and
the economic development of the municipality;
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accelerate the economic
development of said municipality and to make it responsive to the
present drive on peace and order under the New Society; and
WHEREAS, to attain these goals, it is necessary to divide
the present Municipality of Luuk into two (2) distinct municipalities;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution,
do hereby order and decree:
SECTION 1. The Barangays of Kulihon, Tongol, Pangdan, Pang,
Kan Lagay, Niog Niog, Mangal Mangal, Kambing, Karungdong. Pitogo,
Gimbaon, Sucuban, Tigbas, Liyansitan, Kambusi and Niyangkaan, all in the
Municipality of Luuk, Province of Sulu, are hereby separated from said
municipality to form and constitute into a distinct and independent
Municipality of Kalingalan Caluang without affecting in any manner the
legal existence of the mother Municipality of Luuk.
SEC. 2. The seat of Government of the newly created
municipality shall be in Barangay Karungdong.
SEC. 3. in case of conflict as to the boundary of these two
municipalities, the dividing line running from west to east shall be the
national read from Barangay Tayuman to Barangay Kan-muni. All sitios
and barangays north of the national read shall belong to the
Municipality of Luuk and all sitios and barangays south of the said
national read to the Municipality of Kalingalan Caluang: Provided,
however, that the entire land area of Barangay Tigbas shall be included
in the newly created municipality.
SEC. 4. Except as herein provided, all provisions of law,
now or hereafter applicable to regular municipalities, shall be
applicable to the Municipality of Kalingalan Caluang.
SEC. 5. The present officials of the Municipality of Luuc
shall, upon the effectivity of this Decree, exercise jurisdiction over
the sitios and Barangays not included in the newly created municipality
of Kalingalan Caluang.
SEC. 6. All officials of the newly created municipality
shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines who shall hold
office until their successors shall have been elected in the general
elections for local officials 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
Municipality of Kalingalan Caluang shall be appointed as provided for
under existing laws.
SEC. 7. Upon the effectivity of this Decree, the
proportionate share of the new Municipality of Kalingalan Caluang in the
obligations, funds, assets and other property of the Municipality of
Luuc shall be transferred by the President to the newly created
municipality upon the recommendation of the Commission on Audit.
SEC. 8. All laws or parts of laws, as well as executive
orders, that are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.
SEC. 9. This Decree shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 6th clay of December, in the year
of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.
(Sgd.)
FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President
Republic of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.)
JACOBO C. CLAVE
Presidential Executive Assistant
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