Presidential Decree No. 1256 — WHEREAS, in order to make available additional funds for priority projects of the municipal governments and enhance the effectiveness of the town mayors in promoting rural development, the compulsory allocation of municipal revenues for contributions to the agricultural and health services of the provincial governments has to be dispensed with;

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Section 1 · Exemption Section 2 · Issuance of rules and regulations Section 3 · Repealing Clause Section 4 · Effectivity

Section 1

Exemption

Section 1.

Exemption. The municipal governments are hereby declared exempt from the local fund contributions to the provincial governments for the conduct of field agricultural extension work and rural health and sanitation services required under Sections 1012 and 1813-H of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended by Republic Act No. 5185; and such sums shall be retained by the municipal governments and utilized for the financing and prosecution of municipal development projects.

Section 2

Issuance of rules and regulations

Section 2.

Issuance of rules and regulations. The municipal aids to the provincial governments referred to in Section 1 hereof shall no longer be required as budgetary allocations of the municipal governments and, for this purpose, the Secretary of Finance shall issue the necessary implementing rules and regulations.

Section 3

Repealing Clause

Section 3.

Repealing Clause. Sections 1012, 1013, 1014, 1813-H, 1813-I, and other pertinent provisions of the Revised Administrative Code, Republic Act No. 5185, and other existing laws or decrees inconsistent with this Decree are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Section 4

Effectivity

Section 4.

Effectivity. This Decree shall take effect on January 1, 1978.

Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and Seventy-Seven.