WHEREAS, continuous and uncoordinated diggings and excavations on major thoroughfares/streets in various cities and municipalities in Metropolitan Cebu cause inconvenience and poise hazards to motorists and pedestrians;

WHEREAS, Metropolitan Cebu is fast developing into an economic center with numerous infrastructure and utilities projects being undertaken to sustain its development;

WHEREAS, to harmonize rules and regulations on excavations and restorations of road and other related infrastructure activities, it is deemed imperative to establish a body for this purpose which will integrate infrastructure plans, programs and projects as well as coordinate and monitor their implementations;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. Creation. There is hereby created the Metropolitan Cebu Coordinating Council for Road Excavations, Restorations and Other Related Infrastructure Activities hereinafter referred to as the Council.

SECTION 2. Composition. The Council shall be composed of the following:

1) The Chairman, Metro Cebu Development Project Committee of the Central Visayas Regional Development Council - Chairman 2) The Chairman, Infrastructure and Utilities Committee of the Regional Development Council (RDC-IUC) - Co-Chairman 3) The Regional Director of the Department of Public Works and Highways, Region VII - Vice-Chairman 4) The Mayors of the Cities of Cebu, Lapu-Lapu, and Mandaue - Members 5) Two Private Sector Representatives to be recommended by the RDC VII Chairman - Members 6) A representative from each of the following:     (a)

Metro Cebu PC-INP District Command (METRODISCOM)

- Member   (b) Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) - Member   (c) Visayan Electric Company (VECO) - Member   (d) Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) - Member   (e)

Metro Cebu Development Project Office (MCDPO)

- Member   (f) Public Estates Authority (PEA) - Member   (g)

DPWH Sub-District Engineering Office

- Member

SEC. 3. Functions. The Council shall have the following functions:

1. To formulate and recommend, for approval of the President, within sixty (60) days from the effectivity of this Administrative Order, such rules, regulations and systems pertaining to road diggings/excavations, restorations and other related infrastructure activities in Metropolitan Cebu, consistent with existing laws.
   
   
2. To establish a data bank for annual and long range projects including a monitoring system for on-going projects.
   
   
3. To establish a coordinative and working arrangement among government agencies and utility companies.
   
   
4. To organize sub-committee deemed necessary in the exercise of its functions.

SEC. 4. Effectivity. This Administrative Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 15th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety.


By the President:
(Sgd.) CATALINO MACARAIG, JR.
Executive Secretary