Amendment to Sec. 1495 of Act No. 2711 (Revised Administrative Code)

December 1, 1925

ACT NO. 3248

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, LEVYING A SPECIFIC TAX ON MOTOR SPIRITS AND ALLOTTING THE PROCEEDS FOR THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT, AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS

SECTION 1. Section fourteen hundred and ninety-five of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 1495. Specific tax on manufactured oils. — On refined and manufactured mineral oils, there shall be collected the following taxes:

"(1) Kerosene or petroleum, per liter of volume capacity, one and one-half centavos;

"(2) Lubricating oils, per liter of volume capacity, three centavos;

"(3) Naphtha, gasoline, and all other lighter products of distillation, per liter of volume capacity, four centavos;

"All money collected under the provisions of subsections two and three of this Act shall be deposited in the Insular Treasury to constitute a special fund for the maintenance, reconstruction, improvement, and where practicable, for the construction of provincial and insular roads and bridges, to be apportioned by the Secretary of Commerce and Communications to the different provinces in the following proportions:

"Twenty-five per cent equally among all the provinces;

"Twenty-five per cent in proportion to cedula sales in each province during the previous year;

"Twenty-five per cent in proportion to the combined length of first and second-class roads maintained throughout the previous year in each province;

"Twenty-five per cent in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications for the maintenance, improvement, or construction of interprovincial roads or for the maintenance and improvement of roads subjected to unusually heavy traffic:

"Provided, That the apportionment of this fund to the different provinces shall be operative from January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven."

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-six.

Approved, December 1, 1925.