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Executive Order No. 5 (2001)
the transfer of the remaining resettlement functions and responsibilities of the MPC over upland resettlement sites to the concerned LGUs is in accord with the objectives of the decentralization program of the national government and is being pursued to strengthen the capability of the LGUs to implement development programs;
Section 1. The MPC shall effect the transfer of the administrative supervision, control, management and maintenance of the ten (10) resettlement sites classified as upland communities to the concerned LGUs having territorial jurisdiction over the area, with the exception of such components or utilities as may be transferred to the appropriate national government agencies or entities.
Section 2. An integral part of the transfer of the upland resettlement sites from the MPC to the LGUs shall be a resolution of the concerned Sangguniang Bayan/Panlalawigan/Panlungsod authorizing the local chief executive to accept the site for and in behalf of the municipality/city/province.
Section 3. In pursuance of the following mandate, the Chairman of the MPC and the concerned local chief executive, are authorized to prepare and enter into the corresponding Memorandum of Agreement covering the transfer of resettlement functions from MPC to the LGU.
Section 4. This order shall take effect immediately upon signing. 1aшphi1
Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, two thousand and one.
(Sgd.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) RENATO S. DE VILLA Executive Secretary