EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 72

: To organize the municipal districts of Sudipen, San Gabriel, and Pugo in the Province of La Union into regular municipalities, increasing La Union’s number of municipalities from fourteen to seventeen.
: The municipal districts of Sudipen, San Gabriel, and Pugo, Province of La Union.
: The authority vested by the provisions of Act No. 3386.
: A recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior.
: Chapter 57 of the Revised Administrative Code.
: It increased from fourteen municipalities (as established under Section 38 of the Revised Administrative Code) to seventeen.
: It refers to the initial establishment of fourteen municipalities of the Province of La Union before the reorganization.
: They are transformed from municipal districts into regular municipalities.
: It shall take effect immediately.
: Fourteen municipalities.
: It formalizes local administrative units as regular municipalities, typically implying expanded governmental structure and administrative autonomy consistent with the framework under the Revised Administrative Code.
: It was signed by Manuel Roxas as President of the Philippines, and by Emilio Abello as Chief of the Executive Office (By the President).
: At the City of Manila.