BIG PEACE: AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE CUTTING OF TINDALO, AKLE OR MOLAVE TREES

PEACE!!

Peace can be a state of harmony or the absence of hostility. "Peace" can also be a non-violent way of life. "Peace" is used to describe the end of a violent conflict. Peace can mean a state of quiet or tranquility — an absence of disturbance or agitation. Peace can also describe a relationship between any people characterized by respect, justice, and goodwill. Peace can describe calmness, serenity, and silence. This latter understanding of peace can also pertain to an individual's sense of himself or herself, as to be "at peace" with one's own mind. Peace can be also the living of the family calmly together without any quarrels.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE CUTTING OF TINDALO, AKLE OR MOLAVE TREES

ACT NO. 3572

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE CUTTING OF TINDALO, AKLE, OR MOLAVE TREES, UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, AND TO PENALIZE VIOLATIONS THEREOF:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. The cutting in the public forests of tindalo, akle, or molave trees less than sixty centimeters in diameters measured at a height of four feet from the ground (breast high) is hereby prohibited.

SEC. 2. Any person, company or corporation violating the provisions of this Act shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty pesos or imprisonment for not more than fifteen days, or both, and to pay, besides, two times the amount of the tax on the timber cut: Provided, That in the case of a company or corporation, the president or manager shall be directly responsible for the acts of his employees or laborers if it proven that the latter acted with his knowledge; other wise the responsibility will extend only as far as fine is concerned: Provided, Further, That all tindalo, akle, or molave timber cut in violation of this Act shall be forfeited to the Government.

SEC. 3. All acts and provisions of law inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 26, 1929.