An Act to Amend Section Ninety of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Forty-One, Otherwise Known as the "Public Land Act"
Public Land Act
Year:
1955
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
June 14, 1955
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This Act amends Section Ninety of the Public Land Act by introducing a requirement for a forty-meter wide strip along rivers or streams to be preserved as permanent timberland. It prohibits any clearing or ordinary farming on this designated area, even after the issuance of a patent or lease contract.Full Text
REPUBLIC ACT No. 1273
An Act to Amend Section Ninety of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Forty-One, Otherwise Known as the "Public Land Act"
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. Section ninety of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred forty-one, otherwise known as the "Public Land Act", is hereby amended by adding the following subsection at the end thereof:
Section 2. All laws, executive orders and regulations, or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.
Section 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: June 14, 1955.
"(i) That the applicant agrees that a strip forty meters wide starting from the bank on each side of any river or stream that may be found on the land applied for, shall be demarcated and preserved as permanent timberland to be planted exclusively to trees of known economic value, and that he shall not make any clearing thereon or utilize the same for ordinary farming purposes even after patent shall have been issued to him or a contract of lease shall have been executed in his favor."
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