[ Acts No. 4239, August 22, 1935 ]
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE AWARD OF CONTRACTS FOR PUBLIC WORKS TO CONTRACTORS WHO ARE NOT CITIZENS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS OR OF THE UNITED STATES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines
in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
Section 1. No contract for the construction of any public building, excavation, pipe laying, bridges, piers, drainage, roads, water works, irrigation projects, or any other class of public works or improvements which shall be undertaken and done at the expense of the government or semi-government entities, shall be awarded to any contractor who is not a citizen of the Philippine Islands or of the United States, or of any country the laws of which grant similar right or privilege to citizens of the Philippine Islands or of the United States, nor to any association or corporation that is not duly registered or incorporated under the laws of the Philippine Islands, and of which at least seventy per centum of the capital stock or of any interest in said capital stock, belongs wholly to citizens of the Philippine Islands or of the United States.
Section 2. All Acts or parts of Act which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.1aшphi1
Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, August 22, 1935.
The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation
