Executive Order No. 180, s. 1948

Signed on October 2, 1948

MALACAÑANG
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 180

ESTABLISHING THE CLASSIFICATION OF ROADS

For the purpose of classifying and establishing the limits of public roads and fixing the responsibility for the proper maintenance of the roads built or to be built, and upon the recommendation of the National Transportation Board created by Executive Order No. 45, dated July 6, 1936, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby establish the following classification of roads:

I. NATIONAL ROADS

All roads now classified as Insular roads; main traffic routes connecting provincial capitals with important commercial centers, national airports, national seaports, and national parks and roads of military importance, which may be so designated by the President, upon favorable recommendation of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications. National Roads shall have a right-of-way of not less than twenty (20) meters, provided that a right-of-way of at least sixty (60) meters shall be reserved for roads constructed through unpatented public land and at least one hundred twenty (120) meters reserved through naturally forested areas of aesthetic or scientific value.

II. PROVINCIAL ROADS

All roads connecting one municipality with another municipality the terminal to be the public plazas; all roads extending from a municipality, or from a provincial or national road to a public wharf or railway station and any other road which may be so designated by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications upon the request of the Provincial Board concerned and upon favorable recommendation of the Director of Public Works. Provincial roads shall have a right-of-way of not less than fifteen (15) meters, provided that a right-of-way of at least sixty (60) meters shall be reserved for roads constructed through unpatented public land.

III. MUNICIPAL AND CITY ROADS

All highways not included in the above classifications. Municipal and City roads shall have a right-of-way of not less than ten (10) meters; provided that the principal streets of townsites located on public lands shall have a width of sixty (60) meters and all other streets a width of not less than fifteen (15) meters.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

(a) The construction, maintenance and improvement of National Roads shall be accomplished by District and City Engineers under the supervision of the Director of Public Works, and shall be financed from such appropriations as may be authorized by the Republic of the Philippines in annual or special appropriation acts. The Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall also allot all funds collected under the provisions of section 1495 of the Revised Administrative Code and Act No. 3992, as amended, with the exception of the thirty (30) per centum of said funds, ten (10) per cent of which accrue to the municipalities for the maintenance and improvement of municipal roads and twenty (20) per centum to the road and bridge funds of provinces and chartered cities for the maintenance and improvement of National Roads, and whenever practicable or funds are not needed for maintenance purposes, for their construction.

(b) The construction, maintenance and improvement of provincial roads shall be accomplished by District Engineers under the supervision of the Director of Public Works subject to existing laws, and shall be financed with provincial funds and such aid as may be authorized by the Republic of the Philippines in annual appropriation acts.

(c) The construction, maintenance and improvement of municipal and city roads shall be accomplished by the municipal or city government concerned subject to existing laws, and shall be financed with municipal or city funds and such aids as authorized by existing laws or may be authorized by the Republic of the Philippines in annual appropriation acts: Provided, however, That any municipal road of great importance to the province may, on request of the Provincial Board and upon favorable recommendation of the Director of Public Works, be classified as a provincial road by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications.

(d) The Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall cause the Director of Public Works to prepare from time to time a map showing the proposed system of national and provincial roads, which, upon approval by the President, shall constitute the official road map of the Philippines.

(e) Executive Order No. 135, dated December 31, 1937, as amended by Executive Order No. 194, dated March 13, 1939; Executive Order No. 239, dated December 16, 1939; Executive Order No. 286, dated July 9, 1940; and Executive Order No. 311, dated December 17, 1940, are hereby further revised accordingly.

This Order shall take effect as of September 1, 1948.

Done in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the third.

(Sgd.) ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary

Source: Presidential Museum and Library

Quirino, E. (1948). Executive Order No. 180 : Establishing the classification of roads. Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. 44 (10), 3691-3708.