PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1613

: The penalty is Prision Mayor.
: The penalty of Prision Mayor is imposed.
: The penalty is Reclusion Temporal in its maximum period to Reclusion Perpetua when certain specified properties are burned.
: Ammunition factories, establishments with explosives or inflammables, archives, museums, places devoted to culture, education, social services, churches, places of worship, transport conveyances, buildings holding evidence for official proceedings, hospitals, hotels, dormitories, shopping centers, markets, theaters, and buildings in populated or congested areas.
: Reclusion Temporal to Reclusion Perpetua.
: Intent to gain, benefit of another, spite or hatred towards owner or occupant, and when committed by a syndicate (3 or more persons). The penalty is imposed in its maximum period under these circumstances.
: Reclusion Perpetua to death penalty.
: Simultaneous fires in more than one part of building, storage of flammable materials not necessary to business, presence of gasoline or contrivances to start fire, overinsuring property, multiple fires during insurance policy, withdrawal of insured effects shortly before fire, demands for money before fire.
: Prision Mayor in its minimum period.
: It shall be confiscated and escheated to the State unless the owner proves no participation or knowledge despite due diligence.
: Immediately upon publication in a newspaper of general circulation.