REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3425 - AN ACT CREATING THE MUNICIPALITY OF BATARASA IN THE PROVINCE OF PALAWAN

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The barrios of Inogbong, Marangas, Bono-bono, Malihod, Bulalakaw, Tarusan, Iwahig, Iganigang, Sarong, Akayan, Rio Tuba, Sumbiling, Sapa, Malitub, Puring, Buliluyan and Tahod in the Municipality of Brooke's Point, Province of Palawan, are separated from said municipality and constituted into a distinct and independent municipality, to be known as the Municipality of Batarasa, same province. The seat of government of the new municipality shall be in the present site of the barrio of Marangas.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon the election of the new municipal officials in the general elections for local officials in November of nineteen hundred and sixty-three.

Enacted, without Executive approval, June 18, 1961.