QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 3673)
When, in the Secretary’s opinion, the public interests so require, and he deems it necessary and convenient to survey, delimit, and subdivide portions of the public domain.
The Bureau of Lands, upon order of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Yes. The Secretary may entrust the work, including improvement of the land so surveyed and subdivided, to private surveyors or corporations under terms and conditions he finds proper and advantageous to the Government.
Survey, delimitation, subdivision, and improvement of the public land parcels or lots.
The Director of Lands, or through the surveyors or corporations that executed the work, but under the supervision and control of the Secretary.
To persons, corporations, or associations entitled to apply for agricultural public lands under the Public Land Act.
Yes. The expenses of survey, delimitation, subdivision, and improvement are apportioned, assessed, and collected from all applicants irrespective of the nature or class of their applications, in addition to the fees, rentals, and other payments under the Public Land Act.
They may collect only the actual cost of the survey, subdivision, and improvement, plus a profit not exceeding 20% of such cost.
They constitute a special fund available for expenditure in the same manner and for the same purposes as the original fund authorized in Section 4.
A sum of three hundred thousand pesos is set aside from the “Rice and Corn Fund” under Act No. 2818, as amended, to be known as the “Public Land Subdivision Fund.”
The Director of Lands, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Yes. The sum set aside and all monies collected under Sections 2 and 3 are expended to carry out the purposes of Act No. 3673.
Any disposition through the surveyors or corporations is under the supervision and control of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
The Public Land Act.
On its approval, as provided in Section 5.