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Republic of the Philippines

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILLNO. 5888

Introduced by Honorable Roger G. Mercado
SSS
EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to declare the certain portions of land in Barangay Combado,
Maasin City, Southern Leyte, into alienable and disposable lands

There are certain areas within the jurisdiction of Barangay Combado which are
still classified as timberland but which are being cultivated and made as residence by the
people therein. Task Force Combado, which was organized on September 1998 reported
that the final survey and inventory conducted on July 2001 disclosed that there are 170
houses established within an area of 16, 907.62 square meters. Thus, the Combado
Foreshore and Timberland Actual Occupants need their occupied lots converted into
alienable and disposable lands. It is in response thereto that this measure is being
Proposed.

It is well known fact that most of our lands, especially alienable and disposable
lands, are already under private claims or ownership, thereby limiting available lands for
most of the poor who also deserve a land to call their own.

Itis in this context that Barangay Combado has decided to explore the possibility
of reclassifying certain portions of its vast timberland into alienable and disposable for
the purpose of allocating it to its landless and homeless residents. Instead of allowing the
area to grow into a slum colony that may later provide problems in terms of sanitation,
peace and order, Barangay Combado has decided to legitimize the occupancy of its
landless residents.

This timberland, once reclassified from alicnable and disposable, shall be eligible
for titling to the actual occupants who have acquired, cultivated, and made considerable
investments to develop it into a productive land. Hence, the private sector shall become
active partners of the goverment in preserving the protected areas in Barangay
Combado,

In Vigy Of the foregoing. approval of this bill is earnestly recommended.

—GPCE.

ROGER G. MERCADO


Republic of the Philippines

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
‘Quezon City, Metro Manila
Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No,__ 5882

Introduced by Honorable Roger G. Mercado
sss

AN ACT
DECLARING CERTAIN PORTIONS OF LAND IN BARANGAY
COMBADO, MAASIN CITY, SOUTHERN LEYTE, AS ALIENABLE
AND DISPOSABLE LANDS

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

SECTION 1. The portions of timberland situated in Barangay Combado,
Maasin City, Souther Leyte, is hereby reclassified from timberland to alienable and
disposable land, more or less particularly described as follows

LOT 7099-4
Tie Point (TP) - Coordinates - 10 - 08 - 02.07 N, 124-50 - 12.72 E
Tie Lines is TP -1 — (See table below)

LINES BEARING DISTANCES
Tr N86 18'W 784.59 M
i = £2 S$ 63 WE 62.14M

2 3 S 52° 46° W 0.86 M

30 (4 S 73° 43° W 217M
45 S 76° 58'W 53.37M
$6 S 68° 32'W 62.27M
6 7 S 67° o8'W 120.23M
7 8 S71" s4'°w 108.77M
8 9 s 71° 25°w 305.91M
9 10 N82” 38°W 74.12M
1 oO N00" 04'W 1139M
mW 12 N86" S6'E 16,00 M
2 13 N72° 47E 112.87M
3004 N74° 34°E 44.73M
41s N67" 16'E 129.05 M
1s 16 N71° 4VE 175.84 M
1617 N66! 47°E 44.61M
17 18 N22" 08'E 26.43M
1g 19 N72” 18'E 16.38M
19 20 N72? 1VE 11.90M
20 «(I N71° 5a°E 11.78M

2 2 N78" 48'E 20,09M


2 B N68" 02° 13.95M
23 24 N65° 35°E 50.82M.
44 N67" SOE 18.96 M
LOT 7099-B
Tie Point (TP) — Coordinates - 10-08 -02.07N, 124-S0-12.72E

Tie Lines is TP -1 — (See table below)

LINES BEARING DISTANCES
™T? 1 86°42 W 720,00Ms
I 2 N24°04'W 26.04M
2 3 N63°06'E, 26.14M
3 4 N20°52'E 859M
4 5 N70°S7'E 931M
< Ps N60" 08°E 15.20M
6 7 N77 26E 11.63M
7 8 N72°40'E 232M
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9 10 N83°SVE 1214M
lo ou N81°24E 7.83M
Wo 12 S$ 88°22"E 422M
2 13 N 82"S2'E 355M
3B 14 S78°58'E 119M
415 N 88°28°E 10.88 M
Is 16 N 86° 10°E 644M
1617 N72°3VE 7.65 M
17 WB $67°23°E 832M
1819 N81°26'E 5.84M
19 20 $.86°59°E 457M
20 «21 $85°40° E 1721M
21 2 S79 45°E 747M
2 @B N 76°S4'E 11.87M
3B N84 18°E 11.28M
24 25 S01°40°E 44,00 M
25 6 $ 88°37'W 21,02M
26 27 N72°39'W 9.82M
27 (8 N14°47'E 6.08M
28 (29 N78°28'W 593M
2930 N8d°4s;W 1691M
30°31 N8°O7W 6.73M
3132 N1220'E 887M
322-33 N 82°37'W 2258M
33004 S17°43'W 5.83M
33S N84°31'W 10.40M
35°36 $04°58'E 921M
36037 885° S0'W 16.26 M
3738 N06 30'W 14.59M
3839 S77 45';W 34.04 M
3940 $25°49°E 15.17M
40 41 $ 70°20'W 25.48 M
41 1 S71°33'W 39.13M

SECTION 2. The land Management Bureau shall cause the subdivision of the
lands so identified, and subject to the approval of the Secretary of Environment and


Natural Resources, shall determine the areas of each lot, taking into consideration the
nature of land, the number or prospective applicants and the purpose for which it shall be
utilized.

SECTION 3. The land so subdivided shall be distributed to the residents of
Barangay Combado who are members of the Combado Foreshore and Timberland Actual
Occupants Association, not otherwise disqualified by and law to own public lands and
who do not own any parcel of land in the Philippines nor a beneficiary of any of the
agrarian reform land distribution. Provided, further, That no person shall be entitled to
more than one lot: Provided, finally, that members of a family living under one household
shall be considered as one person.

SECTION 4. No property acquired by virtue of this Act shall, without the
consent of the Land Management Bureau, be sold, transferred, mortgaged, or otherwise
disposed or within a period of five (5) years from the date of the issuance of the
Certificate of Title. Any such sale of disposition made in violation hereof shall be null
and void.

SECTION 5. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources shall issue
the necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act.

SECTION 6. All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations or parts thereof,
which are inconsistent within this Act are hereby repealed or amended accordingly,

SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved,