Authority to Pay City of Manila for Filling Lowlands

August 20, 1935

ACT NO. 4237

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PAYMENT IN TEN EQUAL ANNUAL INSTALLMENTS OF THE ANNUAL INSTALLMENTS AND PENALTIES OWING TO THE CITY OF MANILA FOR FILLING LOWLANDS UNDER ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO UNTIL DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE, CANCELLING THE SEIZURE OF PROPERTY DISTRAINED FOR DELINQUENCY IN THE PAYMENT THEREOF, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. Not later than sixty days after January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, the Treasurer of the City of Manila shall determine the total of the annual installments and penalties due and unpaid on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, if any, for each of the owners of lowlands filled under Act Numbered Thirty-three hundred and fifty-two, known as the City Lowland Improvement Act, and shall notify the same of the amount of the total indebtedness so determined and of their right to pay the same on easy terms, as provided in this Act.

SECTION 2. The indebtedness determined in accordance with the preceding section may be paid in ten equal annual installments, at the same time as the annual land tax and shall in this event be collected in the same manner as said tax. The annual installments, or any of them, may also be paid in advance, in which case the debtor shall be granted a discount of fifteen per centum of the sum so paid in advance.

SECTION 3. Delinquency in the payment of two annual installments shall be sufficient cause for the City Treasurer to again seize the land involved, which shall again become alienable in accordance with section twenty-four hundred and ninety-eight of the Administrative Code, as amended by section three of Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and seventy-three.

SECTION 4. The annual installments payable by the owners of filled lots in nineteen hundred and thirty-six and subsequent years to reimburse the cost of filling, in accordance with section five of Act Numbered Thirty-three hundred and fifty-two, shall continue to be due and payable as provided in said section.

SECTION 5. Although the annual payments authorized in section two of this Act be paid to date, any delinquency in the payment of the annual installments referred to in the preceding section in any year shall be sufficient cause for the seizure of the filled land.

SECTION 6. In case any filled lot is seized anew for delinquency in the payment provided for in sections two, three, four or five of this Act, no part of the payments made shall be refunded and the same shall be considered as forfeited to the City of Manila.

SECTION 7. All seizures of lots filled under Act Numbered Thirty-three hundred and fifty-two for delinquency in the payment of the annual installments due for filling the same, are hereby canceled and said lots are returned to the owners thereof or to the persons entitled thereto, subject to the conditions prescribed in this Act. However, seized lots which have been sold in accordance with the provisions of said Act shall not be entitled to the benefits hereof, and the cancellation of the seizure of filled lots leased by the Government of the City of Manila to third parties shall be subject to such lease.

SECTION 8. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, August 20, 1935.