REPUBLIC ACT NO. 828 - 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.

[ 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

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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

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39,120.00

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3. Sundry expenses—

a. Fuel and supplies

5,040.00

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5,040.00

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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

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83,900.00

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2. Buildings—

a. For the construction of one building

P5,000.00

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5,000.00

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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

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18,720.00

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4. Sundry expenses—

a. Fuel and supplies

3,000.00

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3,000.00

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Total for Cebu

110,620.00

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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

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675,350.00

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2. Buildings—

a. For the construction of thirteen buildings

P52,000.00

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52,000.00

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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

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104,520.00

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4. Sundry expenses—

a. Fuel and supplies

26,000.00

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26,000.00

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Total for thirteen second class airports

857,870.00

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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.