An Act Appropriating the Sum of Fifty Thousand Pesos for the Control and Eradication of Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Other Contagious Animal Diseases at Present Threatening the Livestock Industry of the Country

November 7, 1936

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 134

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE AND OTHER CONTAGIOUS ANIMAL DISEASES AT PRESENT THREATENING THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY OF THE COUNTRY

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of Fifty thousand pesos for the control and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease and other contagious animal diseases now threatening the livestock industry of the country. HDITCS

SECTION 2. The Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce is hereby authorized to disburse the fund herein appropriated for the payment of salaries, wages and traveling expenses of the necessary personnel; for the purchase of motor vehicles and other needed equipment, disinfectants and supplies for the campaign against the diseases; and for such other expenses as may be deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. Subject to the executive control of the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, the Director of Animal Industry shall be directly charged with the proper enforcement of the provisions of this Act and, with the approval of the said Department Head, shall prescribe the necessary orders, rules and regulations to carry out the purposes hereof. Any violation of the orders, rules and regulations to be prescribed pursuant to this Act shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-seven hundred and forty-seven of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, commonly known as the Revised Administrative Code.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, November 7, 1936.