Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 65)
The purpose of Executive Order No. 65 is to create the Municipality of Monkayo in the Province of Davao by separating it from the Municipality of Compostela.
The Municipality of Monkayo was created pursuant to the provisions of section 68 of the Revised Administrative Code and upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Davao.
The Municipality of Monkayo consists of the portion of the Municipality of Compostela separated by a boundary line from M.B.M. No. 6 on the Saug-Compostela boundary, running southeasterly through M.B.M. No. 7 near Barrio Bankerohan to M.B.M. No. 8 on the junction of the Agusan River and Mapaca River, then northeasterly through M.B.M. Nos. 9 and 10 to M.B.M. No. 11 on the summit of Mt. Agtouganon on the Cateel-Compostela boundary line.
The Municipality of Monkayo includes the barrios of Monkayo (the seat of the municipal government), MuAoz, Bayle, Haguimitan, Banglasang, Camungangan, Mamunga, Babag, Pilan, Libasan, Bankerohan, and Linoan.
The Municipality of Monkayo begins to exist upon the appointment and qualification of the mayor, vice-mayor, a majority of the councilors, and upon certification by the Secretary of Finance that the municipality is financially capable of fulfilling its obligations.
The municipality must be financially capable of implementing the Minimum Wage Law, providing statutory obligations, ordinary essential services, and the mother municipality (Compostela) must still be able to maintain its government and obligations after the segregation.
Angel Sogueco, supervising surveyor of the Bureau of Lands, certified the Compostela Cadastre and map of the proposed municipality as true and correct.
The Municipality of Compostela retains its present territory minus the portion included in the Municipality of Monkayo.
President Ramon Magsaysay signed the Executive Order, and it was attested by Executive Secretary Fred Ruiz Castro.
Monkayo must be capable of implementing the Minimum Wage Law, providing for all statutory obligations, and offering ordinary essential services of a regular municipality.