QuestionsQuestions (PROCLAMATION NO. 349)
To declare that a public calamity exists in specified provinces and cities due to Typhoon Trix and to put into force the anti-hoarding/price regulation provisions of Act No. 4164 in those areas.
The Provinces of Albay, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes, and Sorsogon, and the Cities of Legaspi and Naga.
That Typhoon Trix caused death and havoc in the affected areas and also threatened the inhabitants with famine and epidemic.
Section 1 of Act No. 4164, “An Act to Prevent the Excessive Increase in the Prices of Certain Prime Necessities of Life on the Occasion of a Public Calamity, Penalizing the Violation Thereof, and For Other Purposes.”
It declares that the provisions of Act No. 4164 are in full force and effect in the proclaimed provinces and cities.
Hoarding of certain prime necessities of life and holding them for sale at excessively increased prices.
The text specifically mentions hoarding of palay, rice, corn, building or construction materials, and “the other prime necessities of life specified in the list accompanying this proclamation.”
Holding commodities for sale at prices higher by 25% or more than the average current local price one month prior to the disaster, subject to ceiling-price rules.
The price calculated as (current local price plus 25%) must not exceed the ceiling price set in existing executive orders issued by the President in pursuance of Republic Act No. 509, as amended.
Famine and epidemic.
It means Act No. 4164’s prohibitions and penalties become enforceable in the proclaimed areas without delay.
Marciano Roque, Acting Executive Secretary.
It uses the average current local price one month prior to the occurrence of the disaster as the baseline for calculating the 25% increase.