Act No. 3819, enacted on February 11, 1931, authorizes the Governor-General of the Philippines to designate public domain lands as reservations for airports, landing fields, and other public uses. The Act amends Section 81 of a prior law, allowing such designations based on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources. These reservations can serve various public interests, including transportation, public parks, and communal resources. The Act takes effect upon the approval of the President of the United States, following a proclamation by the Governor-General.
February 11, 1931
ACT NO. 3819
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL TO DESIGNATE ANY TRACT OR TRACTS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AS RESERVATIONS FOR AIRPORTS, AIRPLANE LANDING FIELDS OR BASES, BY AMENDING SECTION EIGHTY-ONE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR AS AMENDED
SECTION 1. Section eighty-one of Act Numbered Twenty-eight hundred and seventy-four, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-two hundred and nineteen, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 81. Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Governor-General may designate by proclamation any tract or tracts of land of the public domain as reservations for the use of the Government of the Philippine Islands or of any of its branches, or of the inhabitants thereof, in accordance with regulations prescribed for this purpose, or for quasi-public uses or purposes when the public interest requires it, including reservations for highways, airports, airplane landing fields or bases, rights of way for railroads, hydraulic power sites, irrigation systems, communal pastures or leguas communales, public parks, public quarries, public fishponds, and other improvements for the public benefit."
SECTION 2. Upon the express or implicit approval of this Act by the President of the United States, as provided in the Act of Congress approved on August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled "An Act to declare the purpose of the people of the United States as to the future political status of the people of the Philippine Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for those Islands," the Governor-General shall so announce forthwith, by means of a proclamation, and this Act shall take effect on the date of such proclamation.
Approved: February 11, 1931