Administrative Order No. 317, February 12, 1960

DESIGNATING THE NATIONAL CIVIL DEFENSE ADMINISTRATION TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE OBSERVANCE OF FIRE PREVENTION WEEK.

WHEREAS, Proclamation No. 248, dated January 20, 1938, designates the first week of March of every year as Fire Prevention Week; and

WHEREAS, the objectives of said proclamation may be achieved more effectively if the celebration of Fire Prevention Week is entrusted to a proper entity of the government;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CARLOS P. GARCIA, President of the Philippines, do hereby designate the National Civil Defense Administration to take charge of and coordinate all activities in the annual observance of Fire Prevention Week. Public and private schools, public and private industrial and commercial establishments, government and private offices, and labor entities are hereby enjoined to extend to the National Civil Defense Administration their cooperation in the appropriate observance of Fire Prevention Week all over the Philippines.

Done in the City of Manila, this 12th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fourteenth.

(Sgd.) CARLOS P. GARCIA

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) NATALIO P. CASTILLO

Executive Secretary