AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM IN CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, PROVINCE OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL, DEFINING ITS PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Eighteenth Congress
Third Regular Session

Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of July, two thousand twenty one.

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11771, May 24, 2022 ]

AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM IN CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, PROVINCE OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL, DEFINING ITS PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1. There is hereby established a cultural center and museum in the Cagayan de Oro City, Province of Misamis Oriental, to be known as the Cagayan de Oro City Cultural Center and Museum to promote culture and the arts. It shall serve as the institutional medium for the protection, preservation, presentation and promotion of the cultural, artistic, archaeological, social, historical, religious and philosophical heritage of the city and and its people in view of the richness of their legacies and of their relevance to their contemporary and future aspirations.

Section 2. The Cagayan de Oro City Cultural Center and Museum shall be a collaboration between the City Government of Cagayan de Oro and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) with its concerned affiliated cultural agencies and pertinent academic and private sector partners, and members of the community, with its site, structures, governance, organization, operations, and development to be provided for by mutual agreement between the parties, to be executed and published within one (1) year from the effectivity of this Act. 

Section 3. To fulfill its purposes and achieve its objectives, the Cagayan de Oro City Cultural Center and Museum shall:

Section 4. The City Government of Cagayan de Oro shall provide the land necessary for the construction or establishment, or both of the main venue and ancillary offices and facilities of the Cagayan de Oro City Cultural Center and Museum.

Section 5. The amount necessary for the implementation of this Act shall be charged against the current year's budget of the NCCA (Proper). Thereafter, such amount as may be necessary for its continued implementation shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

Section 6. Within sixty (60) days from the effectivity of this Act, the NCC, in coordination with the City Government of Cagayan de Oro, other concerned agencies of the government, and private stakeholders, shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act.

Section 7. Notwithstanding the non-issuance of the implementing rules and regulations, this Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,

This Act which originated in the House of Representatives was passed by the House of Representatives on February 3, 2021,, amended by the Senate of the Philippines on on January 31, 2022, and which amendments were concurred in by the House of Representatives on February 2, 2022.

Approved: MAY 24 2022

(SGD.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines