Deductions for administrative expenses, highway equipment, and contingent emergency expenditures.
Section 6
SEC. 6. Deductions for administrative expenses, highway equipment, and contingent emergency expenditures.— Administrative expenses.—So much as may be required but not to exceed three per centum of all moneys accruing to the Highway Special Fund, or such sum as may hereafter be appropriated for expenditure under the provisions of this Act, shall be deducted from the Highway Special Fund and made available until expended, for administering the provisions of this Act as the Secretary of Public Works and Communications may deem necessary, including expenditures for sundry expenses, salaries and wages of the necessary personnel of the Division of Highways, in-service training programs, and for carrying on the necessary highway research, fiscal and cost accounting, statistical and investigational studies independently or in cooperation with other fiscal and research agencies, and for publishing results thereof. Highway equipment, machineries, etc.—So much as may be needed but not to exceed two and a half million pesos upon the passage of this Act, and so much as may be required for each fiscal year thereafter, but not to exceed one percent of the Highway Special Fund, shall be set aside from the said Fund and made available and expended for the purchase of highway equipment, machinery, laboratory and testing material, equipment, motor vehicles ferries, and all needed and necessary accessories and spare parts, and for the establishment and/or maintenance of the necessary repair shops, motor pools, storage depots, laboratory, material testing and other highway construction aids and facilities by the Division of Highways whenever deemed necessary by the Director of Public Works and approved by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications. Contingent emergency expenditures.—Six per centum of the Highway Special Fund, shall be set aside and made available and expended in the discretion of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications for the relief of provinces, chartered cities and municipalities which have suffered unusually serious loss or damage or destruction beyond their reasonable capacity to bear: Provided, That the sums so authorized shall be expended for restoration, including relocation of roads and bridges damaged or destroyed, in such manner as to give the largest measure of permanent relief, under the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications. Unexpended contingent fund.—In the event, however, that the sums corresponding to the contingent emergency fund provided in the preceding paragraph, or part thereof, remain unexpended after the fiscal year during which it has been set aside, the same shall be made available for investigation, survey, and improvement of roads in the National System at the discretion of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications upon the recommendation of the Director of Public Works. After making the deduction authorized by this section, the said Secretary shall apportion the remainder of the Highway Special Fund among the different provinces, chartered cities and municipalities in the manner provided for in the next article.