Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 386)
Executive Order No. 386, dated March 15, 1960, created the Municipality of Balabagan in the Province of Lanao del Sur.
The barrios and sitios segregated are Barorao, Baguiangan, Kalilangan, Balabagan, Itil, Banago, Budas, Igabay, Magolalong, Dagoan, Matimus, Bongabon, and Lusain.
The seat of government of the Municipality of Balabagan is at barrio Itil.
It was created pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code.
The boundary runs from a point at the mouth of Lalabuan River in Illana Bay near Salauang Point, northeasterly in an imaginary straight line to M.B.M. No. 3 on the Malabang-Tubaran Municipal Boundary.
It begins to exist upon the appointment and qualification of the mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of the councilors and upon certification by the Secretary of Finance that the municipality is financially capable and that Malabang can still maintain its government effectively after segregation.
It must be financially capable of implementing the provisions of the Minimum Wage Law, providing for all statutory obligations, and ordinary essential services of a regular municipality.
Certification that the new municipality can implement the Minimum Wage Law, meet its statutory obligations, and that Malabang municipality can still maintain its government and essential services after segregation.
The Municipality of Malabang retains its present territory minus the barrios and sitios that are included in the Municipality of Balabagan as delimited in the executive order.
The Executive Order was signed by President Carlos P. Garcia and Executive Secretary Natalio P. Castillo in the City of Manila on March 15, 1960.