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952

REGISTRATION UNIT

HOUSE BILL NO.
BILLS AND INDEX SERVICE

Introduced by Honorable Rosenda Ann Ocampo

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to require subdivision and condominium owners and
developers to provide rainwater wells and collectors in their subdivision or
condominium projects as part of flood mitigation measure

Being a tropical country, the Philippines frequently experiences
typhoons and monsoon rains that bring heavy rainfalls. These heavy
rainfalls, coupled with the devastating effects of climate change, result to loss
of lives and damage to properties.

Natural calamities and freak weather phenomenon cannot be
prevented. But there are creative and effective ways to minimize the effects
caused by typhoons and monsoon rains. One way is to provide for a
rainwater wells and collectors that will harvest, collect and store rainwater to
prevent its direct discharge to drainages or sewers to mitigate, if not prevent,
flooding in low-lying areas.

The government encourages the participation of the private sector in its
effort to implement and find new ways to control floods. This bill therefore
requires subdivision and condominium owners and developers to provide
rainwater wells and collectors in their subdivision or condominium projects.

In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly recommended.

SENDA ANN OGAMPO


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 952

Introduced by Honorable Rosenda Ann Ocampo

AN ACT
REQUIRING SUBDIVISION AND CONDOMINIUM OWNERS AND
DEVELOPERS TO PROVIDE RAINWATER WELLS AND COLLECTORS IN
THEIR SUBDIVISION OR CONDOMINIUM PROJECTS AS PART OF
FLOOD MITIGATION MEASURE

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

SECTION 14. All subdivision and condominium owners and developers
are hereby required to provide rainwater wells and collectors in their
subdivision or condominium projects as part of flood mitigation measure.

For purposes of this Act, rainwater wells and collectors refer to
structures or receptacles that will harvest, collect and store rainwater and
prevent the direct discharge of rainwater to drainages or sewers which causes
flooding in low-lying areas.

SEC. 2. Subdivision and condominium owners and developers shall not
be issued licenses, permits, clearances and other documents by government
offices or government regulatory agencies if their subdivision or condominium
plans have no provision for rainwater wells and collectors. The same license
or permit shall not be renewed if the subdivision or condominium owners and
developers fail to construct the rainwater wells and collectors in violation of
this Act.

SEC. 3. Failure on the part of the owner or developer of subdivision or
condominium project to construct the rainwater wells and collectors shall be
punishable with a fine of five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) but not


more than two million pesos (P2,000,000.00) or imprisonment of not less than
six (6) months but not more than one (1) year, or both, at the discretion of the
court.

In the case of a partnership, association, corporation or any juridical
person, the fine shall be imposed upon the president, treasurer or any other
officer or person responsible for the violation.

If the offender is a foreigner, the offender shall be deported immediately
without further proceedings in the Bureau of Immigration after the service of
sentence.

Government officials, employees and agents who shall approve the
issuance of licenses or permits in violation of this Act shall suffer the penalty of
suspension of not less than ten (10) days but not more than thirty (30) days
after due notice and hearing in the appropriate administrative proceedings

SEC. 4. Within sixty (60) days from the effectivity of this Act, the
Secretary of Public Works and Highways shall, in coordination with the
Secretary of the Interior and Local Government and the Chief Executive
Officer of the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board, promulgate the
necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act.

SEC. 5. All laws, orders, rules and regulations, and other issuances
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are repealed, amended or modified

accordingly.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in
the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,