CREATING THE MUNICIPALITY OF LUGUS IN THE PROVINCE OF SULU

WHEREAS, to hasten the pace of socio-economic development of
the country, especially in Muslim Mindanao area, is a basic objective of the
State;

WHEREAS, the primordial aim of development can be best
achieved by the creation of local government units which could, through faster
administrative response, greatly contribute to the social, educational, cultural
and economic needs of the residents of the proposed municipality;

WHEREAS, the creation of the municipality of Lugus in Sulu
province will greatly redound to the benefits of the inhabitants therein and
greatly contribute to the pacification drive of the government towards
normalization in the area;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the Philippines, by virtue of the power in me vested
by the Constitutions, do hereby order and decree, as part of the law of the
land, the following:

SECTION 1. Barangays Bas-Lugus, Witwit, Bas Numuk, Larap,
Mantam, Lugusan, Gapas, Pa-et, Alu Duyung, Laha, Alu, Kayawan, Bas Mangkallay,
Kayawan Subah, and Tingkangan, all in the Municipality of Tapul, Province of
Sulu, are hereby detached and separated from said Municipality and constituted
and created into a separate, distinct and independent municipality to be known
as the Municipality of Lugus, Province of Sulu, without effecting in any manner
the legal existence of the mother Minicipality shall be in Barangay Alu, and
that of the Municipality of Tapul shall be in Barangay Kalang.

SEC. 2. Except as hereinafter provided, all
provisions of law, now or hereafter applicable to regular municipalities, shall
be applicable to the Municipality of Lugus.

SEC. 3. The present elective municipal officials of the
Municipality of Tapul shall continue to perform their duties as such officials
in the newly created Municipality of Lugus until the municipal officials of the
latter municipality shall have been appointed by the President. Such officials
so appointed in the regular elections for municipal officials following the
issuance of this Decree and shall have qualified, unless sooner removed, at
pleasure, by the President. Such appointive officers and employees personnel of
the Municipality of Lugus shall be appointed as provided for under
existing laws.

SEC. 4. Upon the effectivity of this Decree, the
proportionate share of Lugus in the obligations, funds, assets and other
property of the Municipality of Tapul shall be transferred by the President to
the newly created municipality upon the recommendation of the Commission of
Audit.

SEC.5. All laws or parts of laws as well as all executive
orders or regulations inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.

SEC. 6. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, Philippines, this 23rd day of October, in the
year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

			(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines
	By the President:
	(Sgd.) JACOBO C. CLAVE
		Presidential Executive Assistant