Republic Act No. 2012: Limited access highway act

In plain language

This act establishes provisions for the planning, design, acquisition, and operation of limited access highways to improve traffic safety and public welfare.

Establishment of limited access highways

Authority of the Department of Public Works and Communications

Property acquisition for highways

Preference of condemnation cases

Grade crossing elimination

Local service road regulation

Highway

Transportation

Infrastructure

REPUBLIC ACT No. 2012

An Act Increasing the Authorized Capital Stock of the Manila Railroad Company of the Philippine Islands to One Hundred Fifty Million Pesos

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1

To enable it to fully rehabilitate its lines and equipment, to extend its road and to attain the purposes and objectives for which it was created, the authorized capital stock of the Manila Railroad Company of the Philippine Islands is hereby increased from fifty million pesos to one hundred fifty million pesos: Provided, That forty million pesos shall be for the railway project in Mindanao and thirty million pesos for the extension of the Panay Railway from the Municipality of Cuartero, Capiz, to the Municipality of Pandan, Antique.

Section 2

This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 22, 1957.

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