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SENATE OF THE PHILIJi>PINES . 
SIXTEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
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Senate Bill No. 
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Introduced by SENATOR JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
We have been witnesses to the deplorable conduct of pubic 
utility agencies, companies or corporations, both public and private, 
that supply water, light power, gas telephone, and other services, of 
leaving the road, street, passageway of pathway where an installation 
maintenance or repair work was done in a very deplorable and 
dangerous situation. More often than not, the repair or reconstruction 
takes place many months later and in a haphazard way. In the 
meantime, the poor residents of the area suffer the inconvenience of 
using the road street or passageway in dire need of repair. Besides the 
strong clamor for necessary completion by residents affected, owners 
and managers of these public utilities completely ignored such calling. 
This bill seeks to relieve the suffering public by requiring the 
utility agency, company or corporation to repair or reconstruct the 
place within seventy-two (72) hours from completion of the work. To 
ensure complians;e thereof, the proposed law requires the Punong 
Barangay or the barangay secretary to issue a certificate of repair 
work completion, which will be the basis for any further activities that 
any pubHc utiHty companies or enterprise, which may venture out in 
the same barangay. 
Hence, the swift passage of this measure is fervently sought. 
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JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO 


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SENATE OF THE PHILIPPINES 
SIXTEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
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Senate Bill No. ~~=--=u'-'-
Introduced by SENATOR JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO 
AN ACT REQUIRING ALL PUBLIC UTILITY AGENCIES AND 
COMPANIES OR CORPORATIONS, BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE 
TO REPAIR ANY DIGGING OR DECONSTRUCTION MADE IN THE 
COURSE OF THEIR INSTALLATION OR MAINTENANCE WORK 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the 
Philippines in Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Coverage. - This Act shall apply to all public utility 
agencies and companies or corporations, both public and private, that 
supply water, light, power, gas, telephone and other services to the 
public. 
SECTION 2. Acts Required. - Any existing law to the contrary 
notwithstanding, all public agencies, companies or corporations 
covered by this Act shall, within seventy two (72) hours from 
completion of any work affecting any road, street, passageway, 
pathway and similar places, repair or reconstruct the same by 
restoring it to its status prior to such work. . The repair or 
reconstruction shall be done in the presence of the Punong Barangay 
concerned or in its absence, the Barangay Secretary, who is hereby 
required to issue a certificate of repair work completion. A copy of the 


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certificate shall be retained by the Barangay Official for record 
purposes. 
SECTION 3. Penalty. - The manager and official of the public 
utility agency, company or corporation who have direct supervision in 
the installation or repair work shall be liable for violation of Section 2 
of this Act, 
and, upon conviction, 
shall be punished with 
imprisonment of not less than six (6) months but not more than one 
(1) year and a fine of not less than Fifty Thousand Pesos (P 50,000.00) 
but not more than One Hundred Thousand Pesos (PlOO, 000.00). 
SECTION 4. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) 
days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in two (2) 
newspapers of general circulation. 
APPROVED,