EXECUTIVE ORDER NO.

903 July 21, 1983

PROVIDING FOR A REVISION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 778 CREATING THE

MANILA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY, TRANSFERRING EXISTING
ASSETS OF THE MANILA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO THE AUTHORITY, AND
VESTING THE AUTHORITY WITH POWER TO ADMINISTER AND OPERATE THE
MANILA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

WHEREAS, the Manila International Airport as the principal airport of the Philippines for
both international and domestic air traffic, is required to provide standards of airport
accommodation and service comparable with the best airports in the world;

WHEREAS, domestic and other terminals, general aviation and other facilities, have to
be upgraded to meet the current and future air traffic and other demands of aviation in
Metro Manila;

WHEREAS, a management and organization study has indicated that the objectives of
providing high standards of accommodation and service within the context of a financially
viable operation, will best be achieved by a separate and autonomous body; and

WHEREAS, under Presidential Decree No. 1416, as amended by Presidential Decree

No. 1772, the President of the Philippines is given continuing authority to reorganize the
National Government, which authority includes the creation of new entities, agencies and
instrumentalities of the Government;

Sec. 3. Creation of the Manila International Airport Authority. There is hereby established
a body corporate to be known as the Manila International Airport Authority which shall be
attached to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. The principal office of
the Authority shall be located at the New Manila International Airport. The Authority may
establish such offices, branches, agencies or subsidiaries as it may deem proper and
necessary; Provided, That any subsidiary that may be organized shall have the prior
approval of the President.

Sec. 4. Purposes and Objectives. The Authority shall have the following purposes and
objectives:

(a) To help encourage and promote international and domestic air traffic in the
Philippines as a means of making the Philippines a center of international trade and
tourism and accelerating the development of the means of transportation and
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(b) To formulate and adopt for application in the Airport internationally acceptable
standards of airport accommodation and service; and

(c) To upgrade and provide safe, efficient, and reliable airport facilities for international
and domestic air travel.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2640

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2640 - AN ACT TO CREATE A PUBLIC CORPORATION TO BE

KNOWN AS THE VETERANS FEDERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES, DEFINING ITS
POWERS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Sec. 2. The said Federation shall have perpetual succession, with power to sue and be
sued; to hold such real and personal property as shall be necessary for its purposes, and
to receive real and personal property by gift, devise or bequest; to invest its funds for the
exclusive benefit of the veterans of the Philippines; to extend, within its capabilities, all
necessary assistance, and operate such enterprises as may further the material or moral
well-being of veterans; to adopt a seal, and to alter or destroy the same at pleasure; to
have offices and conduct its business and affairs in the City of Manila and/or provinces,
cities, municipalities and barrios of the Philippines and to amend said laws, regulations and
rules; to establish and operate branches of its office anywhere in the Philippines; to
publish a magazine and/or other publications; and generally, to do all such acts and things
as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act and to promote the
purposes of said Federation.

Any action or decision of the Federation or of the Supreme Council shall be subject to the
approval of the Secretary of National Defense.

Sec. 3. No association shall be an affiliated member of the Federation unless it is

integrated by veterans who served in the naval, or land arms or services of the Philippines
at some time in the Philippine Revolution, or World Wars I or II, or in the United States
Army Forces in the Far East in World War II, or in the Philippine Expeditionary Forces to
Korea in the Korean Campaign, or in any armed conflict in which the Philippines may be
involved in the future: Provided, however, That the said veterans have been honorably
discharged or separated from the service or continue in the active military service or are
carried on the military rosters on inactive reserve.

Sec. 4. The purposes of the Federation shall be to uphold and defend the democratic
way of life as envisioned in the Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines; to represent
and to defend the interests of all Filipino veterans; to coordinate the efforts of all different
veterans of the Philippines in behalf of the interests of respective members; to promote
mutual help among former comrades-in-arms; to perpetuate their common experiences in
war; to undertake acts of charity and relief work; to preserve peace and order; to foster
love of country and things Filipino and inculcate individual civic consciousness. In general,
the Federation shall exist solely for purposes of a benevolent character, and not for
pecuniary profit of its members.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10072

AN ACT RECOGNIZING THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RED CROSS AS AN

INDEPENDENT, AUTONOMOUS, NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION
AUXILIARY TO THE AUTHORITIES OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES IN
THE HUMANITARIAN FIELD, TO BE KNOWN AS THE PHILIPPINE RED CROSS

Section 3. Philippine Red Cross. - The Philippine Red Cross shall be recognized as the
voluntary, independent and autonomous nongovernmental society auxiliary to the
authorities of the Republic of the Philippines in the humanitarian field, to assist said
authorities in discharging the obligations set forth in the Geneva Conventions and the
Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Pursuant to the
fundamental principle of unity, the Philippine Red Cross shall be the only national society
of the Red Cross in the Republic of the Philippines and be directed by a central body,
and shall perform the duties inherent upon such status over the entire Philippine territory.

Section 4. Purposes. - The purposes of the Philippine Red Cross shall be as follows:

(a)To cooperate with public authorities in the prevention of disease, the

promotion of health and the mitigation of human suffering by their own programs
in such fields as education, health and social welfare, for the benefit of the
community;
 (b)To organize, in liaison with public authorities, emergency relief operations and
other services to assist the sick and wounded of armed forces in time of armed
conflict, in accordance with the spirit of and under the conditions prescribed by
the Geneva Conventions to which the Republic of the Philippines proclaimed its
adherence;

(c)For the purposes mentioned in the preceding paragraphs, to perform all duties
devolving upon the Philippine Red Cross as a result of the adherence of the
Republic of the Philippines to the said Convention;

(d)To act in matters of voluntary relief and of communication between the people
of the Republic of the Philippines and their Armed Forces, in time of peace and in
time of armed conflict, and to act in such matters between similar national
societies of other countries and the Governments and people and the Armed
Forces of the Republic of the Philippines;

(e)To establish and maintain a system of national and international relief in time
of peace and in time of armed conflict and apply the same in meeting emergency
needs caused by typhoons, floods, fires, earthquakes, and other natural or man-
made disasters, and to devise and carry on measures for alleviating the suffering
caused by such disasters;

(f)To devise and promote such other services in time of peace and in time of
armed conflict as may be found desirable in improving the health, safety and
welfare of the Filipino people, and of all peoples in general; and

(g)To devise such means as to make every citizen and/or resident of the
Philippines a member of the Philippine Red Cross.

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4850 July 18, 1966

AN ACT CREATING THE LAGUNA LAKE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY,

PRESCRIBING ITS POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES, PROVIDING FUNDS
THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

CHAPTER I

DECLARATION OF POLICY AND CREATION OF AUTHORITY

Sec. 1. Declaration of Policy. It is hereby declared to be the national policy to promote,

and accelerate the development and balanced growth of the Laguna Lake area and the
surrounding provinces, cities and towns hereinafter referred to as the region, within the
context of the national and regional plans and policies for social and economic
development and to carry out the development of the Laguna Lake region with due
regard and adequate provisions for environmental management and control, preservation
of the quality of human life and ecological systems, and the prevention of undue
ecological disturbances, deterioration and pollution.

Sec. 2. Laguna Lake Development Authority created. For the purpose of carrying out and
effecting the declared policy, as provided for in Section one hereof, there is hereby
created a body corporate to be known as the Laguna Lake Development Authority,
hereinafter referred to as the Authority, which shall be organized within one hundred
twenty (120) days after the approval of this Act. The Authority shall execute the powers
and functions herein vested and conferred upon it in such a manner as will, in its
judgment, aid to the fullest possible extent in carrying out the aims and purposes set forth
below. This Act may be known as the Laguna Lake Development Authority Act of 1966.