AUTHORIZING THE BUREAU OF LAND TRANSPORTATION TO DISPOSE OG IMPOUNDED MOTOR VEHICLES UNCLAIMED BY OWNERS FOR A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME.

WHEREAS, there are many motor vehicles which, for reasons of
the various offenses committed by their owners, are now impounded by the Bureau
of Land Transportation and considered abandoned for failure of the said owners
to pay the required penalties or fines;

WHEREAS, the maintenance and security of such impounded and
abandoned vehicles are causing unnecessary expenses to the Bureau, which could
otherwise be channeled to and utilized for more reasonable and fruitful uses or
purposes;

WHEREAS, such impounded and abandoned motor vehicles may
cause unnecessary risks, harm and danger within the compound of the agency;
and

WHEREAS, there is the need to orderly dispose of such
impounded and abandoned vehicles at the Bureau or in any of its agencies.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the
Constitution, do hereby order and decree:

SECTION l. – All motor vehicles, duly impounded by the
Director of Land Transportation or by his deputy or by any other authorized
officer, which are unreasonably and actually abandoned by their owners for
failure to pay the necessary and required fines and penalties within a period of
six months from the date of apprehension, shall be sold and disposed of by the
•Bureau of Land Transportation in a public sale: Provided, That, in all cases
before any public sale is done, the owners of the impounded and abandoned
vehicles shall be given written notice and the option to redeem the said
property after paying all the necessary charges within a period of fifteen (15)
days from the receipt of such notice or to participate in the public bidding to
be set and conducted by the Bureau.

SEC. 2. – The owner shall answer for the storage fees the
amount of which is to be fixed by the Bureau and approved by the mister of
Transportation and Communications, for the services rendered in keeping the
vehicles, aside from the payment of a Penalty of P5.00 per day from the time the
vehicle is impounded, but in no case shall the total amount exceed 1/5 of the
appraised value of the vehicle.

SEC 3. – The Bureau shall fix the time and place of the
public sale where all concerned and interested parties may participate in the
bidding and shall cause such notice of time and place to be published once a
week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation.

SEC. 4. – After the public sale, the proceeds shall be
applied to all liens, fines, fees, penalties and such other charges like the
costs in the publication of notice: Provided, That whatever is the remainder
shall be returned to the former owners.

SEC. 5. – All laws, decrees, letter of instructions, orders,
rules and regulations or any part thereof which are in conflict with the
provisions of this Decree are hereby repealed, amended or modified
accordingly.

SEC. 6. – This Decree shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 7th 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.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
		Presidential Assistant