REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2000 - LIMITED
ACCESS HIGHWAY ACT |
Section
1. Declaration of policy. – The Congress hereby
finds, determines, and declares that this Act is necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, and for
the promotion of the general welfare. Sec. 2. Definition of limited access facility. – For the purposes of this Act, a limited access facility is defined as a highway or street especially designed for through traffic, and over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land and other persons have no right of easement or only a limited right of easement of access, light,r, or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such limited access facility or for any other reason. Such highways or streets may be parkways, from which trucks, busses, and other commercial vehicles shall be excluded; or they may be free ways open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic. Sec. 3. Authority to establish limited access facilities. – The Department of Public Works and Communications is hereby authorized to plan, designate, established, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain, and provide limited access facilities for public use wherever it is of the opinion that traffic conditions, present or future, will justify such special facilities: Provided, That within provinces, cities and towns, the establishment of such limited access facilities insofar as they affect provincial, city or municipal streets and plazas shall have the consent of provincial board, city or municipal council as the case may be.cralaw Sec. 4. Design of limited access facility. – The
Department of Public Works and Communications is authorized to design
any limited access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or prohibit
access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is
intended; and its determination of such design shall be final. In this
connection, it is authorized to divide and separate any limited access
facility into separate roadways by the constitution of raised curbings,
central dividing sections, or other physical separations, or by
designating such separate roadways by signs, markers, stripes and the
proper lane for such traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes and
other devices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to,
from or across limited access facilities to or from abutting lands,
except at such designated points at which access may be permitted, upon
such terms and conditions as may be specified from time to time. Sec. 6. Preference of condemnation cases. – Court
proceedings necessary to acquire property or property rights for
purposes of this Act shall take precedence over all other cases not
involving the public interest in all courts, to the end that the cases
of limited access facilities may be expedited. Sec. 9. Financing. – Whenever a limited access
facility has been planned, designated, and established under the
provisions of this Act, the complete financing of the construction
thereof shall be provided by Congress in the annual Public Works
Appropriation Act, under such long term financing plans as may be found
proper and feasible so as to expedite the construction in order that it
can be completed in an estimated period of not more than three years.
The initial expenditures for investigating, surveying, planning and
designing the limited access facilities shall be carried under such
financial arrangements as can now be adequately provided under the
provisions of Republic Act Numbered Nine hundred seventeen, including
the acquisition of property and property rights for such limited access
facilities and service roads as provided under section five hereof. In
addition to the existing available sources of funds under Republic Act
Numbered Nine hundred seventeen, the Department of Public Works and
Communications may avail of the financing arrangements authorized under
Act Numbered Three thousand five hundred, as amended by Republic Act
Numbered One thousand four hundred two and One thousand four hundred
thirty-five, and Republic Act Numbered One thousand, to take care of
the initial expenditures for the acquisition of rights-of-way,
construction of stream-crossing facilities, and such contiguous
sections of the limited access highways as can adequately be met from
continuing appropriations under these Acts, and from the savings in the
expenditure of the proceeds from the issue of bonds under Republic Act
Numbered One thousand previously authorized by Congress for national
road improvements and construction in the provinces and cities
traversed by such limited access highway facilities.cralaw "(e) Highway
Engineering Fund." (Superseded by Sec. 6, PD 17.) Section 10. Unlawful use of limited access facilities: penalties. – It is unlawful for any person (1) to drive a vehicle over, upon, or across any curb, central dividing section, or other separation or across any curb, central dividing section, or other separation or across any curb, central dividing section, or other separation or dividing line or limited access facilities; (2) to make a left turn, a semi-circular, or U-turn except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb section, separation, or line; (3) to drive any vehicle except in the proper lane provided for that purpose and in the proper direction and to the right of the central dividing curb, separation section, or line; (4) to drive any vehicle into the limited access facility from a local service road except through an opening provided for that purpose in the dividing curb or dividing line which separates such service road from the limited access facility proper. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall, upon arrest and conviction, be punished under the penal provisions of the Philippine Highway Act of Nineteen hundred fifty-three and the Revised Penal Code. Section 11. Separability clause. – If any section, provision, or clause of this Act shall be declared invalid or inapplicable to any person or circumstance, such invalidity or inapplicability shall not be construed to affect the portions not so held or persons or circumstances not so affected. All laws or portions of laws inconsistent with the policy and provisions of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency in its application to limited access facilities provided for in this Act.cralaw Section 12. This Act shall take effect immediately
upon its approval.cralaw Approved: June 22,
1957 |