WHEREAS, over 7,000 owners and/or users of unregistered or unauthorized water/sewer connections have already voluntarily disclosed the unregistered connections and applied for regularization thereof pursuant to Executive Order No. 57;

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 57 only prescribes for a one-month period for regularization of unregistered water/sewer connections, the same to expire on 31 March 1993; WHEREAS, there are still hundreds of such owners and/or users of unregistered connections who want to apply for regularization;

WHEREAS, the Metropolitan and Waterworks Sewerage System has received various requests from different quarters, principally from barangay officials in behalf of their constituents, for an extension of the regularization period;

WHEREAS, the more unregistered water/sewer connections regularized, the greater the increase in additional revenues for the MWSS;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. The first paragraph of Section 1 of Executive Order No. 57 is hereby amended, to read as follows:

"1. All owners/users of unbilled, unregistered and unauthorized installations of water and/or sewer service connections, or of devices which draw water without passing through MWSS-registered water meters, or of instruments which interfere with the normal and/or accurate functioning of MWSS-installed water meters and/or discharge sewerage or wastewater into MWSS sewer mains without having applied and paid for the service, are hereby given a period one (1) month and fifteen days (15) after the date of the first publication of this Executive Order, within which to comply with the following requirements:"

Section 2. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 31st day of March in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Three.


By the President:
(Sgd.) ANTONIO T. CARPIO
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel