Volcanology Commission and Safety Measures Act

Section 2 establishes the Commission’s membership as fixed by the named offices and institutions.
Section 2 provides that the Commission’s Chairman is chosen internally by the members.
Section 2 fixes the Chairman’s term at one year, with continuity until the successor qualifies.
Section 2 makes the Commission’s members uncompensated.
Section 2 provides for additional staff and employees through appointment by the Executive Board upon the Commission’s recommendation.

Section 3 directs the Commission to investigate and conduct studies of all active Philippine volcanoes.
Section 3 requires the Commission to establish necessary facilities to predict a volcano’s eruption in advance, if possible.
Section 3 tasks the Commission to formulate in advance and in detail specific plans of action and of relief for the eruption of any volcano.
Section 3 empowers the Commission to recommend to the President measures to protect life and property in affected areas, including declaring certain areas closed to human habitation or subject to regulation, under Section 4.
Section 3 authorizes the Commission to perform other duties necessary to carry out the Act’s purposes.

Section 4 authorizes the President to declare any area affected by or exposed to volcanic eruptions and dangers closed to human habitation and to prohibit entry and residence there, or to otherwise regulate, whenever public interest and safety so demand.
Section 4 requires the President to act upon the recommendation of the Commission on Volcanology.
Section 4 provides that when an area is closed because of exposure to constant extreme danger from volcanic eruption, property owners living therein must be compensated for the loss of their properties by grants of public lands.
Section 4 provides that the area and extent of the public-land grants are determined by the value of the property abandoned.
Section 4 limits the grants to the constraints of the Constitution and existing laws.
Section 4 grants priority in the distribution of lands in Government settlement projects to persons removed from closed areas who are indigent or without property.

Section 5 directs the President, through agencies designated by the President, to authorize the extension of relief to victims of volcanic eruptions.
Section 5 requires the President to adopt measures for the resettlement in safe areas of such victims.

Section 6 authorizes appropriation of PHP 150,000 from any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Section 6 states the authorized appropriation is to carry out the purposes of the Act.

Section 7 requires the President to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to carry out the Act.
Section 7 establishes criminal liability for any violation of Section 4 of the Act or of the rules and regulations promulgated under it.
Section 7 imposes imprisonment of not more than thirty days for such violations.
Section 7 imposes a fine not exceeding PHP 1,000 for such violations.