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[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5945, June 21, 1969 ]
AN ACT CREATING A SEPARATE HIGHWAY AND PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEERING DISTRICT FOR THE SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF BOHOL.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
Section 1. Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, all the municipalities in the second congressional district of the Province of Bohol, except the municipalities of Balilihan and Alburquerque, are hereby constituted into a separate highway engineering district and a separate public works district. The municipalities of Balilihan and Alburquerque shall continue to be included in the first highway and the first public works engineering district: Provided, however, That such two municipalities may be transferred to the highway and public works districts herein created or constituted, by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications at any time after June thirty, nineteen hundred seventy-one: Provided, finally, That said municipalities shall be transferred, and shall become part of the highway and public works engineering districts constituted under this Act from July one, nineteen hundred seventy-three unless earlier transferred pursuant to the preceding proviso.
Section 2. There shall be a highway district engineer and a public works district engineer and such other personnel as may be necessary, who shall be appointed in accordance with existing laws.
Section 3. The office of the highway district engineer shall be in the Municipality of Carmen, Province of Bohol; the office of the public works district engineer shall be in the Municipality of Tubigon, same province.
Section 4. The present personnel and the property of the highway district engineer in said Municipality of Carmen and those of the public works district engineer in said Municipality of Tubigon shall respectively be transferred to the highway and the public works engineering districts constituted herein.1âшphi1
Section 5. Any existing executive or department orders inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Section 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Enacted without Executive approval, June 21, 1969.
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