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MOP, Bk 3, v.4, 207

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 294, August 05, 1940 ]

AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 47, DATED JULY 7, 1936, FIXING THE WIDTH OF ROAD AND STREET RIGHTS-OF-WAY THROUGH PUBLIC LAND



Executive Order No. 47, dated July 7, 1936, is hereby amended to read as follows:
“In order to preserve the natural growth of timber along proposed roads and to make provision for appropriate planting and roadside beautification, the width of the rights-of-way for national and provincial roads constructed through the public domain is hereby fixed at sixty (60) meters: Provided, That rights-of-way of at least one hundred twenty (120) meters shall be reserved through naturally forested areas of aesthetic or scientific value. Right-of-way widths of sixty (60) meters shall also be reserved in laying out the principal streets of town sites located on public land, and a minimum width of fifteen meters for other streets.”
Done at the City of Manila, this 5th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty, and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the fifth.

(Sgd.) MANUEL L. QUEZON
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JORGE B. VARGAS
Secretary to the President
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