Executive Order No. 47




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 47, July 07, 1936 ] ROAD AND STREET RIGHTS-OF-WAY THROUGH PUBLIC LAND In order to preserve the natural growth of timber along proposed roads and to make provision for appropriate planting and roadside beautification, the width of the rights-of-way for national and provincial roads constructed through public land is hereby fixed at sixty meters. Right-of-way widths of sixty meters shall also be reserved in laying out the principal streets of town sites located on public land, and a minimum width of fifteen meters for other streets.1âшphi1 This Order shall take effect immediately and shall be observed by all offices and officials concerned. Done at the City of Manila, this seventh day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the first. MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippines By the President: ELPIDIO QUIRINO Secretary of the Interior The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation