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CEBU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOCY UNIVERSITY

ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT
N. BACALSOAVE,,CEBU CITY

COMPILATION OF MINIMUM DESIGN

REQUIREMENTS FOR :
PD 957
BP 220
BP 344
RA 9514

SUBMITTED BY: SUBMITTED TO:

CARAY,DANIEL R. ARCH.MIKA ANGELA MENDOZA
ARCH392-R5-C2
BSARCH-3

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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 957

In Planning and Design Standards for a Residential Subdivision
Project under Presidential Decree 957 (PD 957).
1. Project Location
- Open Market Housing and Medium Cost Housing within
suitable sites for housing and outside potential
hazard prone and protection areas.

2. Land Allocation for projects 1 hectare and above.

- Saleable Area it has 70% (maximum)
- Non-saleable Area it has 30% (minimum)
Mandatory allocation for parks and playground per tabulation
below:
Area allocated for parks and playgrounds for projects 1 hec. &
above.
Density Percentage of (No. of Percentage of Gross area
Lots or Dwelling Unit Gross allocated for parks and
Area Allocated for Per playground.
Hectare)
20 & below 3.5%
21-25 4.0%
u26-35 5.0%
36-50 6.0%
51-65 7.0%
Above 65 9.0%

Area allocated for community facilities

Mandatory provision of areas for community facilities
such as neighbourhood multi-purpose center for housing
projects with area 1 hectare and above. These are non-
saleable. The developer may provide areas for community
facilities such as schools and commercials in excess of the
mandatory requirement set forth in the rule which shall be
deemed saleable.
3.Minimum Lot Area
Open Market Housing Medium Cost Housing
Single Detached 120 sqm. 100 sqm.
Duplex/Single 96 sqm. 80 sqm.
Attached
Rowhouses 60 sqm. 50 sqm.
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4.Minimum Lot Frontage

Single Detached Open Market Housing Medium Cost Housing
Corner lot 12 m. 12 m.
Regular lot 10 m. 10 m.
Irregular lot 6 m. 6 m.
Interior lot 3 m. 3 m.

Open Market Housing Medium Cost Housing

Single 8 m. 8 m.
Attached/Duplex

Open Market Housing Medium Cost Housing

Rowhouses 4 m. 4 m.

3. Length of Block
Maximum length of block 400 meters with blocks exceeding
250 meters shall be provided with an alley approximately
at mid-length.
4. Roads Right of Way

Project size Open Market Housing Medium Cost Housing

range
Major Collector Minor Major Collector Minor
Road Road Road Road
2.5 has, & 10 m. - 8 m. 10 m. - 8 m.
below
Above 2.5-5 12 m. 10 m. 8m. 10 m. - 8 m.
has.
Above 5-10 12 m. 10 m. 8 m. 12 m. 10 m. 8 m.
has.
Above 10-15 12m. 12 m. 8 m. 12 m. 10 m. 8 m.
has.
Above 15-30 15 m. 12 m. 10 m. 12 m. 10 m. 8 m.
has.
Above 30 has. 15 m. 12 m. 10 m. 15 m. 12 m. 10 m.

According to the Medium Cost Housing the 6.0 meter service

road, both ends connecting to a minor roads, shall be allowed
for blocks not exceeding 60 meters.
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5. Motor Court Alley

Open Market Housing Medium Cost Housing

Row Carriageway Row Carriageway
6 5 6 5
2 2 2 2

Alley is 2 meter wide walkway which shall be used to break a

block and to serve both pedestrains and for emergency
purposes. It shall not be used as access to property.
6. Hierarchy of Roads
Project Size Open Market Housing Medium Cost Housing
( hectare)
2.5 & below major, minor, Motor major, minor, motor
court, alley court, alley
Above 2.5 – 5 major, collector, -do-
minor, motor
Above 5 – 10 -do- major, collector,
minor, motor
Above 10 - 15 -do- -do-
Above 15 – 30 -do- -do-
Above 30 -do- -do-

7. Roads Specification
Planting Strip (PS)
Sidewalk (SW)
Open Market Housing Medium Cost Housing
Row Planting Strip (PS) Sidewalk (SW)
15 m. 1.3 1.2
12 m. 0.8 1.2
10 m. 0.8 1.2
8 m. 0.4 0.6
6 m. (service road) Optional Optional

Road Pavement
Major Concrete/Asphalt Concrete/Asphalt
Minor Concrete/Asphalt Concrete/Asphalt
Motor Court Concrete/Asphalt Concrete/Asphalt
Sidewalk Concrete/Asphalt Concrete/Asphalt
Alley Concrete/Asphalt Concrete/Asphalt
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Concrete road pavement shall have a minimum thickness of 150

millimeters and a minimum compressive strength of 20.7 MPa
while roads may either be concrete of same thickness and
comprehensive strength or asphalt with minimum thickness of 50
millimeters.

8. Water Supply
According to the mandatory of each subdivision shall have
at least an operational deep well and pump sets with
sufficient capacity to provide Average Daily Demand (ADD)
to all homeowners.
- Minimum Water Supply Requirement
Mandatory with the 150 liters per capita per day for
household connection.
- Fire Protection Demand
According to the provision for fire protection shall
comply with the requirements of the Fire Code of the
Philippines.

9. Electrical Power Supply

Mandatory individual household connection to primary and
alternate sources of power if services are available in
the locality. The provision of street lighting per pole
if 50- meter in the distance; at every other people, if
less than 50- meter in distance.

10. Drainage System

The drainage system must conform to the natural drainage
pattern of the subdivision site, and shall drain into
appropriate water bodies, public drainage system or
natural outfalls. According to the both open market and
medium cost subdivision projects, underground drainage
system shall be properly engineered and environmentally
sound, and shall be provided with adequate Reinforced
Concrete Pipes (RCP).
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11. Sewage Disposal System

- Septic Tank
The individual septic tank shall conform to the
standards and design of the Sanitation Code of the
Philippines (PD 856) and its Implementing Rules and
Regulations.
- Connection Community Sewer System
Whenever applicable, connection shall be made to an
approved public or community sewer system subject to the
requirements and provisions of the Sanitation Code of the
Philippines and other applicable rules and regulations.

12. Garbage Disposal System

Provide sanitary and efficient refuse collection and
disposal system whether independently or in conjunction
with the local government garbage collection and disposal
services.

13. Shelter Component

Minimum Floor Area Open Market Housing Medium Cost Housing
Single Detached 42 sqm. 30 sqm.
Duplex 42 sqm. 30 sqm.
Rowhouse 42 sqm. 30 sqm.

In no case shall the number of row houses exceed 20 units per

block/cluster and/or be beyond 100 meters in length.

Minimum Level of Completion

Single Detached, Duplex/Semi-Attached and Row house are
complete house (based on the submitted specifications) with
the mandatory provision of firewall.

14. Setbacks/Easements
Front, Side and Rear shall conform to the provisions of the
National Building Code of the Philippines.
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REVISED RULES AND STANDARDS FOR ECONOMIC AND

SOCIALIZED HOUSING PROJECTS TO IMPLEMENT BATAS
PAMBANSA BLG. 220
1. Project Location
Within suitable sites for housing and outside
potential hazard prone and protection areas.
2. Land Allocation for Projects 1 hectare and above
- Saleable Area is variable
- Non Saleable Area see open space requirement as per
b.1, b.2 and b.3
B.1 Area for parks and playgrounds for projects 1 hectare &
above.
Economic Housing Socialized Housing
Density (No. % of Gross Density (No. % of Gross
of lots or areas for of lots or areas for
Dwelling unit parks and Dwelling unit parks and
Per Hectare) playgrounds Per Hectare) playgrounds
150 & below 3.5% 150 & below 3.5%
151 - 160 4.0% 151 - 160 4.0%
161 – 175 5.0% 161 – 175 5.0%
176 – 200 6.0% 176 – 200 6.0%
201 – 225 7.0% 201 – 225 7.0%
Above 225 9.0% Above 225 9.0%

An addition of 1% increment for every 10 or fraction

thereof above 225. In no case shall an area allocated for
parks and playgrounds be less than 100 square meters.
B.2 Area for community facilities
Mandatory provision of area for neighborhood multi-
purpose center both for economic and socialized housing
projects with area of 1 hectare and above. These areas are
non-saleable. However, the developer may provide for areas for
community facilities such as schools and convenience/retail
centers in excess of the mandatory requirement set forth in
this rule which shall be deemed saleable.
Economic Housing Socialized Housing
Density (No. % of Gross Density (No. % of Gross
of lots or Area for of lots or Area for
Dwelling unit Community Dwelling unit Community
Per Hectare) Facilities Per Hectare) Facilities
150 & below 1.0 % 150 & below 1.0 %
151 – 225 1.5 % 151 – 225 1.5 %
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Above 225 2.0 % Above 225 2.0 %

B.3 Circulation System

Observe hierarchy of roads
3. Minimum Lot Area
Economic Housing Socialized Housing
Single Detached 72 sqm. 64 sqm.
Duplex/Single 54sqm. 48 sqm.
Attached
Rowhouses 36 sqm. 28 sqm.

Saleable lots designated as duplex/single-attached and/or row

house lots shall be provided with housing components. Price of
saleable lots intended for single-detached units shall not
exceed 40% of the maximum selling price for house and lot
package.
4. Minimum Lot Frontage
Economic Housing Socialized Housing
Single Detached 8 m. 8 m.
- Corner Lot 8 m. 8 m.
- Regular Lot 4 m. 4 m.
- Irregular Lot 3 m. 3 m.
- Interior Lot 6 m. 6 m.

Economic Housing Socialized Housing

Single Attached/ 4 m. 3.5 m.
Duplex
Row house 4 m. 3.5 m.

5. Length of Block
Maximum length of block is 400 meters. However, blocks
exceeding 250 meters shall be provided with a 2-meter alley
approximately at midlength.
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6. Road Right of Way

Economic Housing Socialized Housing
Project Size Major Collector Minor Major Collector Minor
Range (m.) (m.) (m.) (m.) (m.) (m.)
2.5 has. & 8 - 6.5 8 - 6.5
below
Above 2.5- 5 10 - 6.5 10 - 6.5
has.
Above 5- 10 10 8 6.5 10 - 6.5
has.
Above 10 – 15 10 8 6.5 10 8 6.5
has.
Above 15- 30 12 8 6.5 10 8 6.5
has.
Above 30 has. 15 10 6.5 12 10 6.5

Project Size Range Economic Housing Socialized Housing

Row Carriageway Row Carriageway
Motor Court 6 2 6 5
Alley 2 - 2 -
Pathwalk - - 3 -

7. Hierarchy of Roads per Project Size Range

Economic Housing Socialized Housing
2.5 has. & below Major, minor court, Major, minor, motor
alley court, pathwalk
Above 2.5- 5 has. -do- -do-
Above 5- 10 has. Major, collector, -do-
minor, motor court,
alley
Above 10 – 15 has. -do- Major,collector,
minor, motor court,
pathwalk
Above 15- 30 has. -do- -do-
Above 30 has. -do- -do-

8. Road Specifications
Planting Strip (PS)
Sidewalk (SW)
Economic Housing Socialized Housing
Row Planting Strip (PS) Sidewalk (SW)
15.0 m. 1.30 m. 1.20 m.
12.0 m. 0.80 m. 1.20 m.
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10.0 m. 0.80 m. 1.20 m.

8.0 m. 0.40 m. 0.60 m.
6.5 m. Optional 0.50 m.

9. Road Pavement
Economic and Socialized
Housing
Major Concrete /Asphalt
Minor Concrete / Asphalt
Motor Court Macadam
Side walk Macadam
Pathway/Alley Macadam

Concrete road pavement shall have a minimum thickness of 150

millimeters and a minimum compressive strength of 20.7 MPa at
28 days. Asphalt pavement shall have a minimum thickness of 50
millimeters.

10. Water Supply

Mandatory connection to appropriate public water system.
Each subdivision shall have at least an operational deepwell
and pump sets with sufficient capacity to provide ADD to all
homeowners provided further that a spare pump and motor set is
reserved. Water supply shall be potable and adequate.

10.1 Minimum Water Supply Requirements

150 liters per capita per day for household
connection
10.2 Fire Protection Demand
Provision for fire protection facilities shall comply
with the requirements of the Fire Code of the Philippines.

11. Electrical Power Supply

Mandatory individual household connection to primary
and alternate sources of power if service is available in
the locality with the provision of street lighting per pole
if 50-meter distance; at every other pole, if the distance
is less than 50 meters.
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12. Drainage System

The drainage system for economic and socialized housing
projects shall be made of concrete lined canal with adequate
capacity and with load bearing cover. The drainage system
must conform to the natural drainage pattern of the
subdivision site, and shall drain into appropriate water
bodies, public drainage system or natural outfalls.

13. Sewage Disposal System

13.1 Septic Tank

Individual septic tank conforming to the standards
and design of the Sanitation Code of the Philippines.
Construction of individual septic tanks shall conform to
the standards and design of the Sanitation Code of the
Philippines.
13.2 Connection to Community Sewer System
Whenever applicable, connection shall be made to an
approved public or community sewer system subject to the
requirements and provisions of the Sanitation Code of the
Philippines and other applicable rules and regulations.

14. Garbage Disposal System

Provide sanitary and efficient refuse collection and
disposal system whether independently or in conjunction with
the local government garbage collection and disposal
services.

15. Shelter Component

Minimum Floor Area

Economic Housing Socialized Housing
Single Detached 22 sqm. 18 sqm.
Duplex/ Single 22 sqm. 18 sqm.
Attached
Rowhouse 22 sqm. 18 sqm.
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16. Minimum Level of Completion

Economic Housing Socialized Housing
Single Detached Complete house Shell House
(based on the (with the doors and
submitted windows to enclose
Duplex/Single specification) the unit)
Attached same same

Rowhouses same same

17. Setback/Yard
Economic and Socialized
Housing
Front Setback 1.5 m.
Side Yard 1.5 m. (from the building
Rear Yard line)
Abutments 2.0 m.
May be allowed per requirement
of the National Building Code
of the Philippines

BP 344 IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS (IRR)

AMENDMENTS
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCESSIBILITY

The rules and regulations set forth herein provide for minimum
requirements and utilities for public use accessible to
disabled persons, pursuant to the objectives of the Batas
Pambansa Bilang 344 “ An Act to Enhance the Mobility of
Disabled Persons by Requiring Certain Buildings, Institutions,
Establishments and Public Utilities to Install Facilities and
Other Devices”.

1. Public and provide buildings and related structures for

public use.

2. Building and related structures to be constructed.

3. Parking Area and Slots

- Strategically locate parking areas near from and to

building entrance and exits.
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4. Renovated Structure

- Any function areas of new designs/plans of structure to

be reconstruct, should be barrier free.

- Access to elevator (accessible at any other level)

should have a clearance minimum of 800 mm.

5. Streets

- Cut out curbs and ramps, should be constructed using

non-skid floor materials to aid the sight impaired and
persons using wheelchairs.

- Audio visual street signs and aids for pedestrian

crossing

- Overpassing and underpasses maybe waived.

- For existing streets and highways that have to be

repaired and renovated, part or the entire pedestrian
crossing should be included.

6. Telephone booths accessible for disabled persons

- Provide one telephone booth on particular place and
shall be accessible to disabled person.
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7. Special standards of accessibility

- Methods and materials are subject for approval of the
National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Person.

Rule 2 – Minimum Requirement for Accessibility

Design Criteria

- Categories of Disabled Persons it dictates th varied

measures to be adopted in order to create an accessible
environment for the handicapped.

Anthropometrics and Dimensional Data as Guides for Design.

The minimum and maximum dimensions for spaces in the built

environment should consider the following criteria:

- The varying sizes and statures of the persons of sexes,

their reaches and their lines of sight at both the
standing and sitting positions.
- The dimensional data of the technical aids of disabled
persons. Included in the second consideration are the
dimensions of wheelchair; the minimum spaces needed for
locking and unlocking leg braces plus the range of the
distances of crutches and other walking aids form
persons using such devices.

Anthropometrics and Dimensional Data as Guides for Design.

- The length of wheelchairs: 1.10 m to 1.30 m.

- The width: 0.60 m to 0.75 m.
- A circle of 1.50 m in a diameter is a suitable guide
in the planning of wheelchair turning spaces.
- The comfortable reach of persons confined to
wheelchairs is from 0.70 m to 1.20 m above the floor
and not less than 0.40 m form room corners.
- The comfortable clearance for knee and leg space
under tables for wheelchair users is 0.70 m. counter
height shall be placed at a level comfortable to
disabled persons.

Basic Physical Planning Requirements

No group of people shall be deprived of full

participation and enjoyment of the environment or be made
unequal with the rest due to ant disability.

- Accessibility
- Reachability
- Usability
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- Orientation
- Safety
- Work Ability and Efficiency

Rule 3 – Specific Requirements for buildings and related

structures for public use

Classification of building by use of occupancy:

- Occupancy classified by categories enumerated in

section 710 of the National Building Code (PD 1096).
- Category I “Residential”
- Category II “Commercial and Industrial”
- Category III “Educational and Industrial”
- Category IV “ Agriculture”
- Category V “ Ancillary”

Architectural feature and facilities features:

A- Stairs
B- Walkways
C- Corridors
D- Doors and Entrance
E- Washrooms and Toilets
F- Lifts/Elevator
G- Ramps
H- Parking Areas
I- Switches, Controls, buzzers
J- Handrails
K- Thresholds
L- Floor Finishes
M- Drinking Fountains
N- Public Telephones
O- Seating Accommodations

Standard of Accessibility for special type of facilities

The provision of this section shall apply to the specified

type of facilities and identified specific requirements for
accessibility and usability which shall be provided for each
of the lited occupancy uses.

Auditoriums, assembly halls, theaters, and related facilities:

- Seating for the disabled shall be accessible form the

main lobby to primary entrances, together with related
toilet facilities.
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- In all assembly places where seating accommodation is

provided, there shall be spaces for the disabled
persons as provided.
- When the seating capacity exceeds 500 an additional
wheelchair seating space shall be provided for each
total seating capacity increase of 100 seats.
- Readily removable seats may be installed in these
spaces when such spaces are ont required to accommodate
wheelchair users.

Seating Capacity Wheelchair Seating Space

4-50 2
51-300 4
301-500 6

Rule 5 Administration and Enforcement

Responsibility for Administration and Enforcement

The administration and enforcement of the provision of

these Rules and Regulations shall be vested in the secretary
of the public works and highway and the secretary of
transportation and communication.

- Streets and highways

- Buildings and related structures including public
transport terminals

The secretary of transportation and communication shall

administer and enforce the provisions of these rules and
regulations through the heads of line attached agencies of the
department as follows:

- Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board

- Land Transportation Office
- Philippines National Railways and the Light Rail Transit
Authority
- Maritime Industry Authority
- Philippines Ports Authority
- Civil Aeronautics Board
- Air Transportation Office
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AN ACT ESTABLISHING A COMPREHENSIVE FIRE CODE OF THE

PHILIPPINES, REPEALING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1185
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Section 1. This Act shall be known as the "Revised Fire Code

of the Philippines of 2008".

Section 2. It is the policy of the State to ensure public

safety and promote economic development through the prevention
and suppression of all kinds of destructive fires and promote
the professionalization of the fire service as a profession.
Shall enforce all laws, rules and regulations to ensure
adherence to standard fire prevention and safety measures and
promote accountability for fire safety in the fire protection
service and prevention service.

Section 3. Definition of Terms. - As used in this Fire Code,

the following words and phrases shall mean and be construed as
indicated:

Reduction - Any demonstration that would eliminate or kill a

fire danger.

Executive - Any individual who goes about as specialist of the

proprietor and deals with the utilization of a structure for
him.

Impacting Agent - Any material or blend comprising of a fuel

and oxidizer used to set off explosives.

Cellulose Nitrate Or Nitro Cellulose - An exceptionally

ignitable and hazardous compound delivered by the response of
nitric corrosive with a cellulose material.

Cellulose Nitrate Plastic (Pyroxylin) - Any plastic substance,

materials or compound having cellulose nitrate (nitro
cellulose) as base.

Ignitable, Flammable or Inflammable - Descriptive of materials

that are effortlessly set ablaze.

Flammable Fiber - Any promptly ignitable and free consuming

fiber like cotton, oakum, clothes, squander fabric, squander
paper, kapok, feed, straw, Spanish greenery, excelsior and
other comparable materials generally utilized in trade.

Burnable Liquid - Any fluid having a glimmer point at or above

37.8_C (100_F).
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Destructive Liquid - Any fluid which causes fire when in touch

with natural matter or with specific synthetics.

Drapery Board - An upward board of non-ignitable or fire

resistive materials connected to and reaching out beneath the
base harmony of the rooftop brackets, to partition the
underside of the rooftop into independent compartments so that
warmth and smoke will be coordinated upwards to a rooftop
vent.

Cryogenic - Descriptive of any material which by its

inclination or because of its response with different
components creates a quick drop in temperature of the prompt
environmental factors.

Damper - A typically open gadget introduced inside an air pipe

framework which naturally closes to confine the entry of smoke
or fire.

Refining - The interaction of first bringing the temperature

up in isolated the more unstable from the less unpredictable
parts and afterward cooling and gathering the subsequent fume
in order to create an almost purged substance.

Channel System - A persistent path for the transmission of

air.

Residue - A finely powdered substance which, when blended in

with air in the appropriate extent and touched off will cause
a blast.

Electrical Arc - An amazingly hot brilliant scaffold shaped by

entry of an electric flow across a space between two channels
or terminals because of the radiance of the leading fume.

Ash - A hot piece or knot that stays after a material has

somewhat consumed, is as yet oxidizing without the indication
of blazes.

Completions - Materials utilized as conclusive covering of a

surface for elaborate or defensive purposes.

Fire - The dynamic guideline of consuming, described by the

warmth and light of ignition.

Fire Trap - A structure dangerous if there should arise an

occurrence of fire since it will consume effectively or on the
grounds that it needs sufficient exits or emergency exits.
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Alarm - Any visual or perceptible sign delivered by a gadget

or framework to warm the tenants of the structure or putting
out fires components of the presence or peril of fire to
empower them to embrace quick activity to save life and
property and to smother the fire.

Fire Door - A fire resistive entryway recommended for openings

in fire detachment dividers or parts.

Fire Hazard - Any condition or act which increments or may

cause an increment in the likelihood of the event of fire, or
which may block, delay, thwart or meddle with putting out
fires activities and the defending of life and property.

Fire Lane - The segment of a street or publicway that ought to

be kept opened and unhindered consistently for the catalyst
activity of putting out fires units.

Fire Protective And Fire Safety Device - Any gadget expected

for the insurance of structures or people to incorporate yet
not restricted to worked in assurance framework like
sprinklers and other programmed dousing framework, finders for
warmth, smoke and burning items and other admonition framework
parts, individual defensive gear, for example, fire covers,
head protectors, fire suits, gloves and different pieces of
clothing that might be put on or worn by people to ensure
themselves during fire.

Fire Safety Constructions - Refers to plan and establishment

of dividers, boundaries, entryways, windows, vents, methods
for departure, and so on essential to and fused into a
structure or design to limit risk to life from fire, smoke,
exhaust or frenzy before the structure is cleared. These
highlights are additionally intended to accomplish, among
others, protected and quick clearing of individuals through
methods for departure fixed from smoke or fire, the control of
fire or smoke in the room or floor of beginning and defer
their spread to different pieces of the structure through
smoke fixed and heat proof entryways, dividers and floors. It
will likewise mean to incorporate the treatment of structures
parts or substance with fire resistant synthetics.

Streak Point - The base temperature at which any material

emits fume in adequate focus to frame an ignitable blend with
air.

Constraining - A cycle where a piece of metal is warmed before

changing its shape or measurements.

Blast - A sort of stable unstable compound which detonates by

percussion.
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Perilous Operation/Process - Any demonstration of assembling,

creation, transformation, and so on, that utilizations or
produces materials which are probably going to cause flames or
blasts.

Even Exit - Passageway starting with one structure then onto

the next or through or around a divider in roughly a similar
floor level.

Hose Box - A case or bureau where fire hoses, valves and other
gear are put away and organized putting out fires.

Hose Reel - A round and hollow gadget turning on a pivot

around which a fire hose is wound and associated.

Hypergolic Fuel - A rocket or fluid force which comprise of

mixes of energizes and oxidizers which light precipitously on
contact with one another.

Mechanical Baking And Drying - The modern cycle of exposing

materials to warm to eliminate solvents or dampness from the
equivalent, as well as to intertwine certain synthetic salts
to shape a uniform coating the outside of materials being
dealt with.

Jumper - A piece of metal or an electrical channel used to

sidestep a security gadget in an electrical framework.

Inhabitance - The reason for which a structure or segment

thereof is utilized or planned to be utilized.

Tenant - Any individual really possessing and utilizing a

structure or parts thereof by excellence of a rent contract
with the proprietor or chairman or by consent or fortitude of
the last mentioned.

Natural Peroxide - A solid oxidizing natural compound which

discharges oxygen promptly. It causes fire when in touch with
burnable materials particularly under states of high
temperature.

Over-burdening - The utilization of at least one electrical

apparatuses or gadgets which draw or burn-through electrical
flow past the planned limit of the current electrical
framework.

Proprietor - The individual who holds the lawful right of

ownership or title to a structure or genuine property.
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Oxidizing Material - A material that promptly yields oxygen in

amounts adequate to animate or uphold burning.

Compressed Or Forced Draft Burning Equipment - Type or burner

where the fuel is exposed to pressure preceding release into
the ignition chamber or potentially which incorporates fans or
different arrangements for the presentation of air at above
typical air pressure into a similar ignition chamber.

Public Assembly Building - Any structure or construction where

fifty (50) or more individuals assemble, accumulate, or amass
for any reason.

Public Way - Any road, rear entryway or other piece of land

unhampered starting from the earliest stage the sky, deeded,
committed or in any case for all time appropriated for public
use.

Pyrophoric - Descriptive of any substance that touches off

precipitously when presented to air.

Refining - An interaction where pollutions and additionally

injurious materials are eliminated from a blend to deliver an
unadulterated component of compound. It will likewise allude
to halfway refining and electrolysis.

Self-Closing Doors - Automatic shutting entryways that are

intended to bind smoke and warmth and postpone the spread of
fire.

Purifying - Melting or intertwining of metallic minerals or

mixtures in order to isolate pollutions from unadulterated
metals.

Sprinkler System - A coordinated organization of powerfully

planned funneling introduced in a structure, design or
territory with outlets orchestrated in a deliberate example
which naturally releases water when enacted by warmth or
burning items from a fire.

Standpipe System - An arrangement of vertical lines in a

structure to which fire hoses can be appended on each floor,
including a framework by which water is made accessible to the
power source depending on the situation.

Vestibule - A section lobby or waiting room between the

external entryways and the inside pieces of a house or
building.
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Vertical Shaft - An encased vertical space of entry that

reaches out from one story to another, just as from the base
to the highest point of the structure.

Section 4. Applicability of The Code. - The provisions of the

Fire Code shall apply to all persons and all private and
public buildings, facilities or structures erected or
constructed before and after its effectivity.

Section 5. Responsibility for the Enforcement of this Code. -

This Code shall be administered and enforced by the Bureau of
Fire Protection (BFP), under the direct supervision and
control of the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Protection, through
the hierarchy of organization as provided for in Chapter VI of
Republic Act No. 6975. with the approval of the Secretary of
the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG),
the BFP, is hereby authorized to:

a. Issue carrying out rules and guidelines, and endorse

principles, timetables of expenses/fire administration charges
and authoritative punishments accordingly as given in the
appropriate arrangements of this Code;

b. Redesign the BFP as might be essential and suitable;

c. Backing and help fire volunteers, specialists and fire

volunteer associations in the country who will go through
compulsory fire concealment, review, salvage, crisis clinical
benefits and related crisis reaction trainings and competency
assessments to be directed by the BFP. On account of the Fire
practitiones, they will go through obligatory persistent
expert instruction and competency assessment of their ability,
information and abilities in the space of fire science,
designing and innovation to be directed by the BFP;

The BFP may go into outer gathering arrangements for the lead
of preparing, instruction and assessment of fire volunteers,
professionals and fire volunteer associations, which will be
under the full control and management of the BFP: Provided,
notwithstanding, That during firefighting activities, fire
volunteer associations will be under the direct operational
control of the fire ground administrators of the BFP;

d. Go into long haul arrangement, either through open biddings

or exchanges as per the arrangements of Republic Act No. 9184,
also called the Government Procurement Reform Act of 2003, for
the obtaining of fire anticipation, fire assurance and putting
out fires examination, salvage, paramedics, dangerous material
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dealing with gear, supplies, materials and related specialized

administrations important for the fire administrations;

e. Go into Memoranda of Agreement with different divisions,

departments, organizations, workplaces and companies of the
public authority, just as private establishments, to
characterize spaces of collaboration and coordination and
portray duty ablaze counteraction schooling, fire security,
fire avoidance, fire concealment and different issue of normal
concern;

f. Approach the police, other law implementation offices, and

nearby government help to deliver fundamental help with the
authorization of this Code;

g. Assign a fire security investigator through his/her

properly approved agent, who will lead a review of each
building or design inside his space of duty in any event once
per year and each time the proprietor, head or tenant will
recharge his/her license to operate or allow to work;

No inhabitance license, business or grant to work will be

given without getting a Fire Safety Inspection Certification
(FSIC) from the Chief, BFP, or his/her appropriately approved
agent;

h. Examine at sensible time, any structure, construction,

establishment or premises for risky or dangerous conditions or
materials as gone ahead in this Code, given that if there
should be an occurrence of single family abiding, an
investigation should be upon the assent of the tenant or upon
legal request from the legitimate court. The Chief, BFP or
his/her properly approved agent will arrange the
proprietor/inhabitant to eliminate risky materials or
potentially stop dangerous activity/measure as per the
guidelines set by this Code or its carrying out rules or
guidelines or other relevant laws;

I. Where conditions exist and are considered dangerous to life

and property, to arrange the proprietor/tenant of any
structure or construction to immediately subside such risky
conditions;

j. Require the structure proprietor/tenant to submit plans and

particulars, and other relevant reports of said working to
guarantee consistence with pertinent codes and guidelines; and

k. Issue a composed notification to the proprietor as well as

project worker to stop work on segment of any work because of
nonappearance, or infringing upon endorsed plans and
particulars, license or potentially leeway or accreditation as
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supported by the Chief, BFP or his/her appropriately approved

agent. The notification will express the idea of the
infringement and no work will be progressed forward that
parcel until the infringement has been adjusted.

Section 6. Specialized Staff. - The Chief, BFP will comprise a

specialized staff of profoundly qualified people who are
proficient ablaze avoidance, fire wellbeing, and fire
concealment. They might be drawn not just from the natural
individuals from the BFP and other government workplaces and
organizations, yet in addition from different sources. In the
last case, they will either be delegated into the help or
recruited as advisors as per law. The specialized staff will
study, survey and assess most recent turns of events and
guidelines ablaze innovation; get ready plans/programs ablaze
security, avoidance and concealment and assess execution
thereof; foster projects on the professionalization of the
fire administration; facilitate with fitting government and
private foundations for the contribution of school seminars
ablaze innovation and fire assurance designing; propose
revisions to the Fire Code; exhort the Chief, BFP on any
matter drew out into the open; and perform such different
capacities as coordinated on any matter drew out into the open
and perform such different capacities as coordinated by higher
specialists.

section 7. Assessments, Safety Measures, Fire Safety,

Constructions, and Protective and additionally Warning
Systems. - As might be characterized and given in the Rules
and Regulations, proprietors, heads or tenants of structures,
structures and their premises or offices and other dependable
people will be needed to conform to the accompanying, as might
be fitting:

a. Investigation Requirement - A fire security review will be

led by the Chief, BFP or his appropriately approved delegate
as essential to the awards of grants or potentially licenses
by nearby governments and other government organizations
worried, for the:

(1) Use or inhabitance of structures, designs, offices or

their premises including the establishment or fire assurance
and fire wellbeing hardware, and electrical framework in any
structure construction or office; and

(2) Storage, taking care of or potentially utilization of

explosives or of burnable, combustible, harmful and other
perilous materials;

b. Wellbeing Measures for Hazardous Materials - Fire security

measures will be needed for the production, stockpiling,
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dealing with or potentially utilization of risky materials

including:

(1) cellulose nitrate plastic of any sort;

(2) flammable filaments;

(3) cell materials like froth, elastic, wipe elastic and

plastic froth;

(4) combustible and burnable fluids or gases of any order;

(5) combustible paints, stains, stains and natural coatings;

(6) high-heaped or broadly spread burnable stock;

(7) metallic magnesium in any structure;

(8) destructive fluids, oxidizing materials, natural peroxide,

nitromethane, ammonium nitrate, or any measure of profoundly
harmful, pyrophoric, hypergolic, or cryogenic materials or
toxic gases just as material mixtures which when presented to
warmth or fire become a fire conductor, or produce inordinate
smoke or poisonous gases;

(9) impacting specialists, explosives and unique modern touchy

materials, impacting covers, dark powder, fluid nitro-
glycerine, explosive, nitro cellulose, blasts of any sort, and
plastic explosives containing ammonium salt or chlorate;

(10) firecrackers materials of any sort or structure;

(11) matches in business amounts;

(12) hot cinders, live coals and ashes;

(13) mineral, vegetable or creature oils and different

subordinates/side-effects;

(14) flammable waste materials for reusing or resale;

(15) dangerous tidies and fumes; and

(16) farming, woodland, marine or mineral items which may go

through sudden ignition.

(17) some other substance with potential to make hurt people,

property or the climate as a result of at least one of the
accompanying: a) The compound properties of the substance; b)
The actual properties of the substance; c) The organic
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properties of the substance. Without restricting the meaning

of unsafe material, every perilous great, flammable fluids and
synthetic substances are dangerous materials.

c. Wellbeing Measures for Hazardous Operation/Processes - Fire

Safety measures will be needed for the accompanying unsafe
activity/measures:

(1) welding or binding;

(2) mechanical preparing and drying;

(3) garbage removal;

(4) compressed/constrained draft consuming gear;

(5) refining and producing;

(6) film projection utilizing electrical circular segment

lights;

(7) refining, refining and dissolvable extraction; and

(8) such different tasks or cycles as may from this point

forward be endorsed in the Rules and Regulations.

d. Arrangement on Fire Safety Construction, Protective and

Warning System - Owners, inhabitants or head or structures,
structures and their premises or offices, aside from such
different structures or designs as might be excluded in the
guidelines and guidelines to be proclaimed under Section 5 in
this regard, will consolidate and give in that fire security
development, defensive and cautioning framework, and will
create and execute fire wellbeing programs, indeed:

(1) Fire security highlights like sprinkler frameworks, hose

boxes, hose reels or standpipe frameworks and other putting
out fires gear;

(2) Fire Alarm frameworks;

(3) Fire dividers to isolate connecting structures, or

distribution centers and capacity regions from different
inhabitances in a similar structure;

(4) Provisions for limiting the fire at its source, for

example, fire resistive floors and dividers reaching out up to
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the following floor section or rooftop, shade sheets and other

fire containing or halting segments;

(5) Termination of all ways out in a space bearing the cost of

safe entry to a public way or safe dispersal territory;

(6) Stairway, vertical shafts, even exits and different

methods for departure fixed from smoke and warmth;

(7) A fire leave plan for each floor of the structure showing
the courses from one another space to suitable ways out,
showed noticeably on the entryway of such room;

(8) Self-shutting fire resistive entryways prompting passages;

(9) Fire dampers in brought together airconditioning pipes;

(10) Roof vents for use by firemen; and

(11) Properly checked and lit ways out with arrangement for
crisis lights to sufficiently enlighten leave courses in the
event of force disappointment.

Section 8. Disallowed Acts. - coming up next are proclaimed as

denied act and exclusion.

(a) Obstructing or impeding the leave ways or across to

structures plainly set apart for fire security purposes, for
example, however not restricted to passageways in inside
rooms, any piece of flights of stairs, foyers, hallways,
vestibules, galleries or scaffolds prompting a flight of
stairs or exit of any sort, or enduring or permitting said
infringement;

(b) Constructing doors, doorways and walkways to structures

parts and yards which hinder the precise and simple entry of
putting out fires vehicles and hardware;

(c) Prevention, impedance or block of any activity of the Fire

Service, or of appropriately coordinated and approved fire
detachments;

(d) Obstructing assigned fire paths or admittance to fire

hydrants;

(e) Overcrowding or confirmation of people past the approved

limit in film houses, theaters, amphitheaters, halls or other
public get together structures, besides in other gathering
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zones on the ground floor with open sides or open entryways

adequate to give safe ways out;

(f) Locking fire exits during period when individuals are

inside the structure;

(g) Prevention or impediment of the programmed conclusion of

fire entryways or smoke segments or dampers;

(h) Use of fire defensive of putting out fires gear of the

fire administration other than for putting out fires besides
in different crises where their utilization are supported;

(I) Giving bogus or malignant alarms;

(j) Smoking in denied regions as might be controlled by fire

administration, or tossing of stogies, cigarettes, consuming
items in places which may light or cause fire;

(k) Abandoning or leaving a structure or design by the

inhabitant or proprietor without proper wellbeing measures;

(l) Removing. annihilating, altering or crushing any approved

imprint, seal, sign or tag posted or needed by the fire
administration for fire security in any structure, design or
handling gear; and

(m) Use of jumpers or altering electrical wiring or over-

burdening the electrical framework past its assigned limit or
such different practices that would will in general subvert
the fire wellbeing highlights of the electrical framework.

Section 9. Infringement, Penalties and Abatement of Fire

Hazard. - Fire perils will be subsided right away. The Chief,
BFP or his/her properly approved agent, upon the report that
an infringement of this Code or other relevant laws, rules and
guidelines is being dedicated, will give notice/request to go
along to the proprietor, director, inhabitant or other
individual answerable for the state of the structure or
construction, showing in addition to other things, the period
inside which consistence will be affected, which will be
inside ten (10) to fifteen (15) days after the receipt of the
notification/request, contingent upon the sensibility to
satisfactorily agree with something very similar.

In the event that, after the pass of the aforementioned

period, the proprietor, chairman, inhabitant or other mindful
individual neglected to agree, the Chief, BFP or his/her
approved agent will set up a sign before the structure or
design that it is fire peril. In particular, the notification
will bear the words "Cautioning: THIS BUILDING/STRUCTURE IS A
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FIRE HAZARD", which will stay posted until such time that the
proprietor, overseer, tenant or other individual liable for
the state of the structure, structure and their premises or
offices subside something similar, yet such period will not
surpass fifteen (15) days from the pass of the underlying time
frame given in the notification/request to agree.

At last, with the disappointment of the proprietor, executive,

inhabitant or other individual liable for the state of the
structure, structure and their premises or offices to consent
inside the period indicated over, the Chief, BFP may give
request for such reduction. On the off chance that the
proprietor, manager or inhabitant of structures, structure and
their premises or offices doesn't decrease something similar
inside the period fixed in said request, the structure,
construction, premises or offices will be requested shut by
the Chief, BFP or his/her appropriately approved agent despite
any license freedom or authentication prior gave by the nearby
specialists.

Any structure or design evaluated and proclaimed by the boss,

BFP or his/her appropriately approved agent as a firetrap by
virtue of the gravity or substantialness of the infringement
or is causing undeniable inevitable fire peril to connecting
foundations and residences will be pronounced a public
annoyance, as characterized in the Civil Code of the
Philippines in a notification to be given to the proprietor,
overseer, inhabitant or other individual answerable for the
state of the structure, structure and their premises or
offices. On the off chance that the evaluated worth of the
disturbance or the sum to be spent in subsiding the equivalent
isn't more than One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00), the
proprietor, director or tenant thereof will lessen the danger
inside fifteen (15) days, or if the surveyed esteem is more
than One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00), inside thirty
(30) days from receipt of the request announcing said building
or construction a public aggravation; in any case, the Chief,
BFP or his/her properly approved delegate will forthwith cause
its rundown reduction. inability to agree inside five (5) days
from the receipt of the notification will cause the Chief, BFP
or his/her appropriately approved delegate to set up a sign
before the structure or structure, at or close to the
passageway of such premises, telling the public that such
structure or construction is a "FIRETRAP", which will stay
until the proprietor, manager, inhabitant or other individual
liable for the state of the structure, structure and their
premises or offices subside something very similar inside the
predetermined period.
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Rundown decrease as utilized thus will mean all remedial means

embraced to lessen risks which will incorporate, yet not
restricted to rebuilding, fixing, reinforcing, remaking,
expulsion and destruction, either fractional or all out, of
the structure or construction. The costs caused by the public
authority for such outline decrease will be borne by the
proprietor, head or tenant. These costs will comprise an
earlier lien upon such property.

Section 10. Requirement of The Lien. - If the proprietor,

chairman or tenant neglects to repay the public authority of
the costs brought about in the rundown reduction inside ninety
(90) days from the finishing of such decrease, the structure
or construction will be sold at public closeout as per
existing laws and rules. No property subject of lien under
Section 9 concerning this, might be sold at a value lower than
the decrease costs caused by the public authority. The
property will be relinquished for the public authority if the
most noteworthy bid isn't in any event equivalent to the
reduction costs.

Section 11. Punishments. -

1. Against the private person:

a) Administrative fine - Any individual who abuses any

arrangement of the Fire Code or any of the principles and
guidelines proclaimed under this Act will be punished by a
managerial fine of not surpassing Fifty thousand (P50,000.00)
pesos or in the legitimate case, by stoppage of activities or
by conclusion of such structures, structures and their
premises or offices which don't follow the necessities or by
both such authoritative fine and conclusion/stoppage of
activity to be forced by the Chief, BFP. Given, That the
installment of the fine, stoppage of tasks and additionally
conclusion of such structures, structures, and their premises
or offices will not acquit the violator from revising the
insufficiency or decreasing the fire risk. The choice of the
Chief, BFP, under this subsection, might be spoke to the
Secretary of the Interior and Local Government. Except if
requested by the Secretary of the Interior and Local
Government the allure will not remain the execution of the
request for the Chief, BFP. The choice of the Secretary of the
Interior and Local Government will be conclusive and
executory.

(b) Punitive - if there should arise an occurrence of stubborn

inability to address the lack or decrease the fire danger as
given in the former subsection, the violator will, upon
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conviction, be rebuffed by detainment of at least six (6)

months nor more than six (6) a long time, or by a fine of not
more than One hundred thousand (P100,000.00) pesos or both
such fine and detainment; Provided, in any case, that in the
event of an enterprise, firm, organization or affiliation, the
fine as well as detainment will be forced upon its authorities
answerable for such infringement, and in the event that the
blameworthy party is an outsider, notwithstanding the
punishments thus endorsed, he will quickly be extradited;
Provided, at last, that were the infringement is gone to by
injury, death toll or potentially harm to property, the
violator will be continued against under the appropriate
arrangements of the Revised Penal Code.

Any individual who, without power, malignantly eliminates the

sign that a structure or construction is a fire risk/firetrap
set by the approved individual in this Code will be obligated
for detainment for thirty (30) days or a fine not surpassing
One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00) or both in the
attentiveness of the court.

Any individual, who ignores the legal request of the fire

ground authority during a firefighting activity will be
punished with detainment of one (1) day to thirty (30) days
and a fine of 5,000 pesos (P5,000.00).

2. Against the public official/worker

a) Administrative - The accompanying demonstrations or

exclusions will deliver the public official/worker accountable
for the implementation of this Code, its carrying out rules
and guideline and other relevant laws, authoritatively
obligated, and will be rebuffed by censure, suspension or
evacuation in the carefulness of the training authority,
contingent upon the gravity of the offense and without bias to
the arrangements of other material laws:

(1) Unjustified disappointment of the public official/worker

to lead examination of structures or constructions at any rate
once per year;

(2) Deliberate inability to set up a sign before the structure

or construction inside his/her space of duty discovered to
disregard this Code, its executing rules and guidelines and
other relevant laws, that the equivalent is a "FIRE HAZARD" or
a "FIRETRAP";

(3) Endorsing to the Chief, BFP or his/her properly approved

delegate for the confirmation, or presenting a report that the
structure or construction follows the principles set by this
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Code, its executing rules or guidelines or other relevant laws

when the equivalent is in opposition to actuality;

(4) Issuance or reestablishment of inhabitance or license to

operate without the fire security examination testament gave
by the Chief, BFP or his/her properly approved delegate;

(5) Failure to drop the inhabitance or license to operate

after the proprietor, overseer, tenant or other individual
liable for the state of the structure, structure and different
premises neglected to consent to the notification/request for
consistence with the guidelines set by this Code, its
executing rules and guidelines and other appropriate laws,
inside the predefined period;

(6) Failure to lessen a public annoyance inside fifteen (15)

days after the proprietor, overseer, tenant or other mindful
individual neglected to subside something very similar inside
the period contained in the notification to decrease;

(7) Abusing his/her clout in the exhibition of his/her

obligation through demonstrations of defilement and other
untrustworthy practices; or

(8) Other resolved indecency or gross carelessness in the

presentation of his/her obligation as given in this
demonstration or its carrying out rules and guidelines.

b) Punitive - For the situation of determined infringement

including the previously mentioned acts or oversights counted
under Section 11 subparagraph 2(A) the public
official/representatives will, upon conviction, be rebuffed by
detainment of at the very least six (6) months nor more than
six (6) a long time or by a fine of not more than One hundred
thousand (P100,000.00) or both such fine and detainment:
Provided, That where the infringement is gone to by injury,
death toll as well as property, the violator will be continued
against under the pertinent arrangements of the Revised Penal
Code.

Section 12. Assignment and Sources of Income. -

(a) To help the labor, framework and hardware needs of the

fire administration of the BFP, such sum as might be important
to achieve the destinations of the Fire Code will be
appropriated and remembered for the yearly appointment of the
BFP.

(b) To part of the way accommodate the financing of the fire

administration the accompanying expenses and charges which
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will gather to the General Fund of the National Government,

are thusly forced:

(1) Fees to be charged for the issuance of testaments, allows

and licenses as accommodated in Section 7 (a) in this regard;

(2) One-10th of one for each centum (0.1%) of the checked

assessed worth of structures or constructions to be raised,
from the proprietor thereof, yet not to surpass 50,000
(P50,000.00) pesos, one half to be paid before the issuance of
the structure license, and the equilibrium, after conclusive
examination and preceding the issuance of the utilization and
inhabitance grant;

(3) One-hundredth of one for each centum (0.10%) of the

evaluated worth of structures or constructions yearly endless
supply of the land charge, besides on structures utilized as
single family abodes;

(4) Two for every centum (2%) of all charges, barring re-
protection expenses for the offer of fire, seismic tremor and
blast peril protection gathered by organizations, people or
specialists authorized to sell such protections in the
Philippines;

(5) Two for every centum (2%) of gross deals of organizations,

people or specialists selling putting out fires hardware,
apparatuses or gadgets, including peril identification and
cautioning frameworks; and

(6) Two for every centum (2%) of the assistance expenses got
from fire, quake, and blast peril reinsurance reviews and post
misfortune administration of protection change organizations
working together in the Philippines straightforwardly through
specialists.

Section 13. Assortment of Taxes, Fees and Fines. - All

assessments, charges and fines gave in this Code, will be
gathered by the BFP. Given, That (20%) of such assortment will
be saved and held for use by the city or civil government
concerned, which will fitting similar elite for the
utilization of the activity and upkeep of its neighborhood
fire station, including the development and fix of fire
station: Provided, further, That the leftover eighty (80%)
will be dispatched to the National Treasury under a trust
store alloted for the modernization of the BFP.

"Sec. 13-A. Appraisal of Fire Code Taxes, Fees and Fines. -

The appraisal of fire code duties, expenses and fines is
vested upon the BFP. The BFP will, subject to the endorsement
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of the DILG, recommend the procedural guidelines for such

reason.

Sec. 13-B. Assortment and Assessment of Local Taxes, Fees and

Fines. - The assortment and evaluation of assessments, charges
and fines as recommended in the Local Government Code, aside
from those contained in this Code, will be capacity of the
concerned neighborhood government units.

Sec. 13-C. Utilization of Income Generated from the

Enforcement of the Fire Code. - The Chief, BFP is approved,
subject to the endorsement of the Secretary of the Interior
and Local Government, to utilize the pay produced under the
Fire Code for acquirement of fire insurance and putting out
fires examination, salvage, paramedics, supplies and
materials, and related specialized administrations fundamental
for the fire administration and the improvement of facilites
of the Bureau of Fire Protection and decrease of fire perils.

The BFP will decide the ideal number of hardware, including,

however not restricted to, fire engines and fire hydrants,
needed by each neighborhood government unit for the
appropriate conveyance of fire insurance administrations in
its locale.In the obtainment of putting out fires and
examination supplies and materials, the Bureau of Product
Standards of the Department of Trade and Industry will assess,
decide and ensure if the stock to acquired adjusts to the item
guidelines fixed by the BFP. For this reason, the BFP will
submit to the Bureau of Product Standards a nitty gritty
arrangement of item norms that should be consented to in the
acquirement of putting out fires and examination supplies and
materials inside six (6) months from the effectivity of this
demonstration.

Sec. 13-D. Checking the Implementation of the Fire Code and

the Amount of the Fees Collected. - The Chief, BFP will,
inside six (6) month from the effectivity of this Code, submit
to the Secretary of the Interior and Local Government for
his/her endorsement, an administration instrument or component
that would guarantee powerful observing of the implementation
of the Fire Code to incorporate the measure of Fire Code
expenses gathered.

Section 14. Inside sixty (60) days from the effectivity of

this Act, the Secretary of the Interior and Local Government
will give the principles and guidelines for its viable
execution.

Section 15. Official Decree No 1185 is thusly revoked. All

laws, official pronouncements, letters of guidelines, leader
orders, rules and guidelines to the extent that they are
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conflicting with this Act, are therefore canceled or corrected

by and large.

Section 16. On the off chance that any arrangement of this Act
or any segment thereof is pronounced illegal by a capable
court, different arrangements will not be influenced along
these lines.

Section 17. This Act will produce results fifteen (15) days
after its distribution in the Official Gazette or in two (2)
public papers of general course.