Full Title
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, AND OPERATION OF MEDICAL, FIRE-FIGHTING, CRASH, RESCUE STATIONS, EQUIPMENT AND OTHER FACILITIES NEEDED BY AIRPORTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
House Bill No.
H. No. 3130
Date of Approval
August 14, 1952

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance Type
Bill Note

Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 48 no. 10 page 4272 (10/00/1952)

Full Text of Issuance

H. No. 3130 / 48 OG No. 10, 4272 (October, 1952)

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 828, August 14, 1952 ]

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, AND OPERATION OF MEDICAL, FIRE-FIGHTING, CRASH, RESCUE STATIONS, EQUIPMENT AND OTHER FACILITIES NEEDED BY AIRPORTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: SECTION 1. The following sums or so much thereof as may be necessary are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of fire-fighting facilities in airports under the jurisdiction of the Civil Aeronautics Administration:

I. For two first class airports (Manila and Cebu)
   
A. MANILA  
   
1. Equipment—  
a. One fire crash truck P120,000.00
b. One fire crash truck 50,000.00
c. Three asbestos clothings at P450 each 1,350.00
d. Ten sets of fireman's coats, helmets and boots at P500 each 5,000.00
e. One ambulance 10,000.00
f. Office and medical equipment 1,000.00
  _____________
  187,350.00
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2. Personnel—
a. One assistant fire chief 2,400.00
b. Four pump operators at P1,800 7,200.00
c. Seven firemen and rescue nozzlemen at P1,800 12,600.00
d. Four driver-firemen at P1,800 7,200.00
e. One doctor 3,720.00
f. One nurse 2,400.00
g. Two driver medical-attendants at P1.800 3,600.00
  _____________
  39,120.00
  _____________
 
3. Sundry expenses—
a. Fuel and supplies 5,040.00
  _____________
  5,040.00
  _____________
Total for Manila P231,510.00
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B. CEBU
 
1. Equipment—
a. One fire crash truck P80,000.00
b. Two asbestos clothings at P450 each 900.00
c. Six sets of fireman's coats, helmets and boots at P500 each 3,000.00
  _____________
  83,900.00
  _____________
 
2. Buildings—
a. For the construction of one building P5,000.00
  _____________
  5,000.00
  _____________
 
3. Personnel—
a. One fire chief 2,400.00
b. One assistant fire chief 2,040.00
c. Three pump operators at P1,800 5,400.00
d. Four firemen and rescue nozzlemen at P1,800 7,200.00
e. One driver-first aider 1,680.00
  _____________
  18,720.00
  _____________
 
4. Sundry expenses—
a. Fuel and supplies 3,000.00
  _____________
  3,000.00
  _____________
Total for Cebu 110,620.00
  _____________
 
II. For the thirteen second class airports (Bacolod, Iloilo, Baguio, Davao, Legaspi, Daet, Cagayan, Laoag, Zamboanga, Naga, Dumaguete, Tacloban and Tagbilaran)
 
1. Equipment—
a. Thirteen fire crash trucks at P50,000 each P650,000.00
b. Thirteen asbestos clothings at P450 each 5,850.00
c. Thirty-nine sets of fireman's coats, helmets and boots at P500 each 19,500.00
  _____________
  675,350.00
  _____________
 
2. Buildings—
a. For the construction of thirteen buildings P52,000.00
  _____________
  52,000.00
  _____________
 
3. Personnel—
a. Thirteen fire crew chiefs at P1,920 24,960.00
b. Thirteen driver-pump operators at P1,560 20,280.00
c. Twenty-six nozzlemen at P1,560 40,560.00
d. Thirteen driver-first aiders at P1,440 18,720.00
  _____________
  104,520.00
  _____________
 
4. Sundry expenses—
a. Fuel and supplies 26,000.00
  _____________
  26,000.00
  _____________
Total for thirteen second class airports 857,870.00
  _____________
Grand total P1,200,000.00
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 Provided, That the Civil Aeronautics Administrator may use any savings in the appropriation for equipment, representing the difference between the amount appropriated and actual cost, to increase the appropriation for other equipment, and may use any savings in sundry expenses for any airport to augment the appropriations for sundry expenses for such other airport or airports as in his judgment shall require the use of such savings.SEC. 2. The sum of one hundred ninety-six thousand four hundred pesos or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually commencing with the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifty-three to nineteen hundred and fifty-four (July 1, 1953 to June 30, 1954) and every fiscal year thereafter, for the purpose of continuing the activities authorized under the provisions of this Act. SEC. 3. The balances of the funds appropriated in this act for personnel and sundry expenses remaining unexpended on June 30, 1953, shall be reverted to the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund in the National Treasury.SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved, August 14, 1952.

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