EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 8, July 22, 1946
AMENDING PARAGRAPHS (8) AND (9) OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 161, DATED AUGUST 23, 1938, ENTITLED “PROMULGATING REGULATIONS TO GOVERN THE ADMINISTRATION AND COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT I…
sixty-one, dated August twenty-three, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight,
are hereby amended to read as follows:
“(8) The irrigation fees to be paid, beginning with those for
the year 1946, by landowners under irrigation systems constructed under
the provisions of Act No. 2152, as amended, and operated and maintained
by the Director of Public Works, with the exception of the San Miguel
Irrigation System in Tarlac Province, shall consist of the following
items:“(a) Actual cost of operation and maintenance including equipment, with interest of four per cent.
“(b) An insurance charge at the rate of fifty centavos per hectare.
“(c) An additional charge to be applied on the cost of
construction, provided that the total annual charge under (a), (b) and
(c) hereof, for land under any system shall be twelve pesos per
hectare.”“(9) The irrigation fees as fixed under paragraph (8) for any
year shall be due and payable on or before April thirty of the following
year, after which date the penalty shall be ten per cent additional to
December thirty-one, and twenty per cent thereafter as prescribed by
existing law. Landowners delinquent in the payment of said irrigation
fees for one year or longer shall be subject to court action for the
collection of the same as provided in section thirteen of Act Numbered
Two Thousand one hundred and fifty-two, as amended.”
Done at the City of Manila, this 22nd day of
July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of
the Independence of the Philippines, the first.
Chief of the Executive Office