QuestionsQuestions (PROCLAMATION NO. 24)
To establish a classification of ports to fix responsibility for their proper administration, operation, and maintenance.
National ports and municipal ports.
Ports primarily of importance to foreign, interisland, and inter-provincial commerce; and other ports may be classified as national if geographically necessary for enforcing customs regulations or for national defense.
Financed by the Commonwealth Government; administered and operated under the direct supervision and control of the Insular Collector of Customs.
They are under the municipal councils concerned, subject to general regulations issued by the Insular Collector of Customs under the Administrative Code (Chapter Thirty-nine).
Maintained and improved using funds from municipalities and appropriations authorized by the Commonwealth Government; carried out with the advice and under the general supervision of the Director of Public Works.
A municipal port may later be declared national, and a national port may later be declared municipal, when necessary in the interest of commerce, for customs enforcement, or for national defense.
It took effect on January 1, 1937.
Legaspi (Albay), Tabaco (Albay), Aparri (Cagayan), Jose Pañganiban (formerly Mambulao) (Camarines Norte), Cebu (Cebu), Davao (Davao), Iloilo (Iloilo), Manila (Manila), Pulupandan (Occidental Negros), Jolo (Sulu), Hondagua (Tayabas), and Zamboanga (Zamboanga).
The “Ports open to coastwise trade only” under the national ports classification (i.e., not open to overseas shipping).
Examples: Nasipit (Agusan), Mariveles (Bataan), Batangas (Batangas), Tagbilaran (Bohol), San Fernando (La Union), Tacloban (Leyte), Iligan (Lanao), Puerto Princesa (Palawan), Subic (Zambales), Surigao (Surigao).
The Insular Collector of Customs.
Executive Order No. 45 created the National Transportation Board (referenced as the recommending body).
Section 1145 of the Revised Administrative Code and Commonwealth Act No. 175 are cited.