Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 415)
Executive Order No. 415, dated January 27, 1961, is an order creating the Municipality of Tantangan in the Province of Cotabato. It segregates certain barrios and sitios from the municipality of Tacurong to form this new municipality.
The barrios and sitios segregated to form Tantangan include Tantangan, Upper Mangilala, Dumadalid, Bucaypait, New Iloilo, San Felipe, Tacob, Liken, Puti, Lumangket, Koloncilal, Tinungkop, Lebas, Maibu, Dunguan, Upper Luayan, Antong (New Lambunao), and Kabuling.
The municipality was created pursuant to the provisions of Section 68 of the Revised Administrative Code and upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Cotabato.
The municipality of Tantangan shall begin to exist upon the appointment and qualification of its mayor, vice-mayor, and a majority of its councilors, and upon certification by the Secretary of Finance that it is financially capable of implementing the Minimum Wage Law, fulfilling statutory obligations, and providing essential municipal services. Furthermore, Tacurong must still be financially and administratively capable after the segregation.
The Secretary of Finance must certify that Tantangan can financially support the Minimum Wage Law provisions, statutory obligations, and ordinary essential services, ensuring fiscal responsibility for the new municipality before it can officially begin operation.
The boundary starts at a point on the Buluan-Tacurong boundary near barrio Mangilala, goes southwesterly perpendicular to the Norala-Tacurong boundary, southeast along the Old Tacurong-Norala boundary to the Norala-Tacurong-BaAga boundary, east to the Old Buluan-Tacurong boundary near barrio Talik, then northwest to the starting point near barrio Mangilala.
The municipality of Tacurong retains its present territory minus the portions that were segregated to form the municipality of Tantangan, as per the defined boundary lines in the Executive Order.
Executive Order No. 415 was signed by Executive Secretary Natalio P. Castillo by authority of President Carlos P. Garcia, who was the President of the Philippines at that time.
Yes, the order requires that after the segregation, the mother municipality of Tacurong must still be able to maintain its municipal government creditably, meet all its statutory and contractual obligations, and provide essential municipal services.
Resolution No. 228, series of 1960, of the Provincial Board of Cotabato is cited as the source for the boundary description of the new municipality.