MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 309, November 22, 1940 ]
AMENDING FURTHER EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 47, DATED JULY 7, 1936 AS AMENDED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 294, DATED AUGUST 5, 1940, FIXING THE WIDTH OF ROAD AND STREET RIGHTS-OF-WAY THROUGH PUBLIC LAND
Executive Order No. 47, dated July 7, 1936, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following paragraph:
“The area herein reserved as rights-of-way through naturally forested areas are classified as forest reserve, and it shall be unlawful for any person willfully to enter and occupy any portion of said areas or make kaingin therein or in any manner destroy or cause any damage to the timber stand or other forest growth found therein. Any person violating the provision of this Order shall be subject to the penalty provided for in section 2751 (b) of the Administrative Code, as amended by Commonwealth Act No. 447: Provided, however. That nothing herein shall be construed as to alter or modify the jurisdiction of the Director of Public Works over national and provincial roads.”
Done at the City of Manila, this 22nd day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the sixth.1a⍵⍴h!1
(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President
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