Proclamation No. 1850




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Proclamation No. 1850, April 26, 1979 ] DECLARING THE EXISTENCE OF A PUBLIC CALAMITY IN THE PROVINCE OF LEYTE. WHEREAS, great damage and destruction of lives and property was brought about by the recent occurrence of typhoon Bebeng, particularly in the province of Leyte; and WHEREAS, to prevent excessive increase in the prices of prime commodities due to profiteering and hoarding by those who control the supply thereof, and to enable the government, as well as civic, relief and welfare agencies to carry out their functions, it is necessary that a state of calamity be proclaimed in the province of Leyte; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby proclaim that a state of calamity existing in the Province of Leyte. During the existence of the calamity it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation in said province to sell or offer for sale of foodstuffs, building and construction materials and all prime necessities of life at prices exceeding those fixed or may be fixed by proper authorities, and to aggravate the crisis by refusing, for purposes of profiteering, to sell at the legal price, or by hiding, concealing or hoarding such foodstuffs, building and construction materials of other prime commodities for the same purpose. All government agencies concerned are hereby directed to implement and execute rescue, relief and rehabilitation work in accordance with existing operational plans and the directives and orders I have issued in connection with calamities. The Price Control Council, with the assistance of the Integrated National Police shall enforce the provisions of Act No. 4164, particularly Section 3 thereof, in all affected areas. As such implementing agency, the Council is hereby empowered to order the seizure of any commodity, material or merchandise or prime necessity, sell to the public at the price authorized by Act No. 4164 and Republic Act No. 6361, and reimburse to the owner of the same its legal price.1aшphi1 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed. Done in the City of Manila, this 26th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine. (Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) JACOBO C. CLAVE Presidential Executive Assistant The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation