Executive Order No. 254 (1940)

MALACAÑAN PALACE

MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 254, February 20, 1940 ]

REVISING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 195, DATED MARCH 13, 1939 ESTABLISHING A CLASSIFICATION OF PORTS

For the purpose of fixing the responsibility for the proper administration, operation, and maintenance of ports, and upon the recommendation of the National Transportation Board created by Executive Order No. 45, I, MANUEL L. QUEZON, President of the Philippines, do hereby establish the following classification of ports:

1. National ports. - National Ports shall comprise all ports primarily of importance to foreign, interisland, and interprovincial commerce. Other ports which, on account of their geographical locations, are necessary for enforcing Customs regulations or for national defense, may also be classified as National Ports. The improvement and maintenance of National Ports shall be financed by the National Government, and their administration and operation shall be under the direct supervision and control of the Insular Collector of Customs.

2. Pursuant to the above classification and the provisions of Section 1145 of the Revised Administrative Code and Commonwealth Act No. 175, the following ports are hereby designated as National Ports:

I. (a) PORTS OF ENTRY OPEN TO OVERSEAS SHIPPING:

PROVINCES | PORTS

Albay | (1) Legaspi Cagayan | (2) Aparri Camarines Norte | (3) Jose Pañganiban (Formerly Mambulao) Cebu | (4) Cebu Davao | (5) Davao Iloilo | (6) Iloilo Manila | (7) Manila Sulu | (8) Jolo Zamboanga | (9) Zamboanga

(b) PORTS OF ENTRY WITHOUT CUSTOMS FACILITIES AND OPEN TO OVERSEAS SHIPPING UPON ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PERMITS BY THE INSULAR COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS:

PROVINCES | PORTS

Albay | (1) Tabaco Occidental Negros | (2) Pulupandan Pangasinan | (3) Sual Tayabas | (4) Hondagua

II. PORTS OPEN TO COASTWISE TRADE ONLY:

PROVINCES | PORTS

Agusan | (1) Nasipit Albay | (2) Virac (Catanduanes) Antique | (3) San Jose de Buenavista Bataan | (4) Mariveles Batanes | (5) Basco " | (6) Contra Costa Batangas | (7) Batangas " | (8) Nasugbu Bohol | (9) Tagbilaran Capiz | (10) Capiz Cotabato | (11) Makar " | (12) Parang Ilocos Norte | (13) Ga-an Bay Ilocos Sur | (14) San Ildefonso ” “ | (15) Solvec Lanao | (16) Iligan La Union | (17) San Fernando Leyte | (18) Tacloban Marinduque | (19) Balanacan Masbate | (20) Masbate Mindoro | (21) Calapan Occidental Misamis | (22) Jimenez Oriental Misamis | (23) Cagayan Oriental Negros | (24) Dumaguete Palawan | (25) Balabac " | (26) Culion " | (27) Puerto Princesa Romblon | (28) Romblon Samar | (29) Borongan " | (30) Catbalogan Sorsogon | (31) Magallanes Sulu | (32) Sitankai " | (33) Siasi " | (34) Batobato Surigao | (35) Surigao Zamboanga | (36) Puluan " | (37) Malangas

3. Municipal ports. - Municipal Ports shall comprise all other ports not classified as National Ports. The administration and operation of Municipal Ports shall be under the Municipal Councils concerned, subject to the general regulations that may be issued by the Insular Collector of Customs, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 39 of the Administrative Code. The maintenance and improvement of these ports shall be financed by the municipalities concerned and from appropriations authorized by the National Government and such work shall be carried out with the advice and under the general supervision of the Director of Public Works.

4. Any municipal port may hereafter be declared a national port or any national port declared a municipal port, when it is considered necessary to do so in the interest of commerce, for the enforcement of Customs regulations, or for national defense purposes.

This order shall take effect as of this date.

Done at the City of Manila, this 20th day of February, 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