Practice question
A qualifying fifth-class municipality has 2,000 hectares of agricultural land when its ordinance passes. It proposes 80 hectares of reclassification. No exceptional authorization applies. Confine the question to the ordinary numerical cap. Which is correct?
- The proposal is below the 100-hectare cap, though other requirements remain.
- The cap is necessarily 300 hectares.
- Every proposal below 2,000 hectares is lawful.
- The cap is calculated from the province’s total road area.
- Eighty hectares necessarily exceeds five percent of 2,000.
Legal references
- Republic Act No. 7160, Section 20: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7160_1991.html
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