QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 10407)
Republic Act No. 10407 is an act converting the Roxas City–Cagayà–Sibaguan–Balijuagan–Cudian–Ivisan provincial road in Roxas City and the Municipality of Ivisan, Province of Capiz into a national road, and providing funds therefor.
The Roxas City–Cagayà–Sibaguan–Balijuagan–Cudian–Ivisan provincial road in Roxas City and the Municipality of Ivisan, Province of Capiz.
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
It directs the Secretary of Public Works and Highways to include the road in the Department’s program for improvement, repair, and maintenance.
Improvement, repair, and maintenance.
The funding is to be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Upon its approval.
March 19, 2013.
It does more than conversion; it also mandates DPWH inclusion in its program and provides for funding through the annual General Appropriations Act.
It indicates the shift of authority from prior local/provincial road classification to national road status, placing oversight under DPWH.
Local/provincial responsibility for the road’s improvement/repair/maintenance is effectively superseded by DPWH jurisdiction and supervision, subject to DPWH program inclusion and funding.
The law requires program inclusion for improvement/repair/maintenance; actual funding still depends on inclusion in the annual General Appropriations Act.
No. It does not directly appropriate funds; instead, it directs that funding be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
It originated in the House of Representatives and was finally passed by the House on August 3, 2011 and by the Senate on December 18, 2012.
Benigno S. Aquino III, as President of the Philippines.
Typically it refers to administrative/operational control for public works (planning, improvement, repair, maintenance), not necessarily a transfer of underlying ownership of land or right-of-way.