Proclamation No. 644 (1960)
Declaring the Period From March 9 to 15 of Every Year as Traffic Safety Week and March 16 of Every Year as Safe-Driving Day (S-D Day) and Creating a Committee to Take Charge of Their Celebration
MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Proclamation No. 644, February 8, 1960 ]
DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM MARCH 9 TO 15 OF EVERY YEAR AS TRAFFIC SAFETY WEEK AND MARCH 16 OF EVERY YEAR AS SAFE-DRIVING DAY (S-D DAY) AND CREATING A COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR CELEBRATION
WHEREAS, the loss of life, limb and property resulting from traffic accidents reaches appalling proportions;
WHEREAS, it is the government’s duty to solve the critical traffic situation with a view to minimizing, if not totally eliminating, traffic accidents and the resultant loss of life, limb, and property; and
WHEREAS, in the furtherance of this duty, it is necessary to conduct an efficacious educational campaign by the use of leaflets, posters, banners, billboards, signboards, mass media, the radio, and other appropriate means to arouse traffic-safety consciousness and impel the observance of traffic and road courtesy rules and regulations;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from March 9 to 15 of every year as Traffic Safety Week and March 16 of every year as Safe-Driving Day (S-D Day).
A committee is hereby created to take charge of the celebration of Traffic Safety Week and Safe-Driving Day, the same to be composed of the following:
The Undersecretary for Communications and Transportation | Chairman The Chief, Traffic Control Group P.C. | Member The Chief, Manila Police Department | “ The Administrator, Motor Vehicles Office | “ The President, Philippine Motors Association | “ The President, Manila Rotary Club | “ The President, Manila Lions Club | “ The President, Manila Jaycees | “ The President, Philippine Safety Council | “ The Commissioner of Public Highways | “ The Operation Officer, Traffic Control Group, P.C, | “
Executive Order No. 242, dated January 9, 1956, as amended by Executive Order No. 266, dated February 27, 1956, is hereby revoked.
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 8th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.
CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines
By the President:
NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary