Measures to Curtail Air Pollution
Letter of Instructions No. 551, issued on June 7, 1977, mandates the implementation of pollution control measures in the Philippines. Public utility and government vehicles must install anti-pollution devices within three months, while privately owned vehicles have one year to comply. Law enforcement agencies are tasked with apprehending vehicles emitting black smoke, which will be grounded until the issues are resolved. Factories emitting nuisances must submit anti-pollution device plans within a month, and failure to comply will result in closure. Citizens are encouraged to report violations to the National Pollution Control Commission (NPCC), which will take action to enforce these regulations.
Quick Answers
- What is Measures to Curtail Air Pollution about?
- Letter of Instructions No. 551, issued on June 7, 1977, mandates the implementation of pollution control measures in the Philippines. Public utility and government vehicles must install anti-pollution devices within three months, while privately owned vehicles have one year to comply. Law enforcement agencies are tasked with apprehending vehicles emitting black smoke, which will be grounded until the issues are resolved. Factories emitting nuisances must submit anti-pollution device plans within a month, and failure to comply will result in closure. Citizens are encouraged to report violations to the National Pollution Control Commission (NPCC), which will take action to enforce these regulations.
- What type of law is Letter of Instructions No. 551?
- Measures to Curtail Air Pollution (Letter of Instructions No. 551) is a Philippine Presidential Issuances enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was Measures to Curtail Air Pollution enacted?
- Measures to Curtail Air Pollution (Letter of Instructions No. 551) was enacted on Jun 7, 1977.
- What is the citation for Measures to Curtail Air Pollution?
- Measures to Curtail Air Pollution, Letter of Instructions No. 551, Jun 7, 1977 (Philippines)
Law Information
- Reference Number
- Letter of Instructions No. 551
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Presidential Issuances
- Subcategory
- Letters of Instructions
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
June 7, 1977
LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 551
| TO | : | The Commissioner, National Pollution Control Commission |
| The Commissioner, Land Transportation Commission | ||
| The Chief of Constabulary | ||
| All law Enforcement Agencies | ||
| All Concerned |
In line with the pollution control program of the government, you are hereby directed to implement the following:
1. All public utility and government vehicles shall install anti-pollution devices within three (3) months from the effectivity of Presidential Decree No. 1152, otherwise known as the Philippine Environment Code. acd
2. The law enforcement agencies shall apprehend vehicles emitting visibly black smoke after the deadline, the same to be immediately grounded after the trip they had been making when apprehended so as not to inconvenience the passengers, and shall remain grounded until their deficiency shall have been corrected.
3. All privately owned vehicles shall install anti-pollution devices within one (1) year from the issuance of the Code on June 6, 1977.
Any effective anti-pollution devices in the open market shall be sufficient for the purpose. aisa dc
4. Factories that are nuisances per se due to noise, or the discharging of effluents into rivers and bodies of water, or oppressive odor caused by their wastes or by-products shall within one month submit to the National Pollution Control Commission plans for the installation of effective anti-pollution devices.
5. These factories shall be listed by the NPCC and the list shall be submitted to the President within one month.
6. Within one month after submission of the list by the NPCC, the factories shall be closed unless they are able to obtain from the NPCC a certification that they have installed an adequate anti-pollution device demonstrated in actual examination to have abated the noise, effluent discharge or oppressive odor constituting the nuisance.
7. All citizens are urged to report to the NPCC vehicles, factories and sites which are nuisances per se (that is, on account of their emitting visibly black smoke, creating noise, discharging effluents, or yielding oppressive odor and having no anti-pollution device to eliminate these undesirable characteristics). The NPCC is hereby directed to take immediate action on the reports in keeping with the aims of the government's anti-pollution policy.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 7th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Seven.
Cite This Law
Measures to Curtail Air Pollution, Letter of Instructions No. 551, Jun 7, 1977 (Philippines)
Measures to Curtail Air Pollution, Letter of Instructions No. 551 (Phil. 1977)
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