Preamble
WHEREAS, the allocation and use of funds for the maintenance of the country's network of roads and bridges is prescribed in the Revised Philippine Highway Act, as amended; WHEREAS, it has become necessary to improve procedures for funding the maintenance of local roads and bridges to ensure fully effective local road maintenance programs by local governments; and WHEREAS, it is desirable to improve the capability of local government to carry out their road maintenance programs in consonance with the concept of local autonomy; 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: