RA 6485 creates a new municipality by separating certain barrios from the Municipality of Manaoag, Province of Pangasinan.

Barrios Maraboc, Panaga, Turko, Talogtog, Inmanduyan, Calaoagan, Cabulalaan, Botigue, Laoac, Casampagaan, Anis, Caaringayan, Nambagatan, Cabilaoan East, Cabilaoan West, Lebueg, Casantiagoan, Yatyat, Casanestebanan, and Calmay.

The new municipality is known as the Municipality of Laoac.

The seat of government is at the present site of Barrio Laoac.

The specified barrios are removed from the territorial jurisdiction of Manaoag and constituted into a new local government unit—the Municipality of Laoac.

It gains corporate existence upon the election and qualification of the first mayor, vice-mayor, and councilors in the next general election for local officials.

The first mayor, vice-mayor, and councilors.

The first set of local officials (mayor, vice-mayor, councilors) must be elected in the next general election for local officials; corporate existence attaches upon their election and qualification.

It indicates that the law became effective despite not obtaining Executive approval, as reflected by the legislative enactment note in the text.

Yes. Section 3 states that the Act shall take effect upon its approval.

The legislative note suggests special circumstances on enactment; students should reconcile the “upon approval” clause with the end notation that it was enacted without Executive approval, treating the statutory text as indicating the intended immediate/operative effect as specified by the legislative record.

There are 20 barrios listed.

It precisely determines the territorial boundaries of the new municipality by identifying which former barrios are transferred from the parent municipality.

The parent municipality is the Municipality of Manaoag, Pangasinan.

RA 6485 was enacted on June 17, 1972.

It indicates the law’s purpose: to create the Municipality of Laoac in the Province of Pangasinan.