Local Road Management Manual 25 Table 2.1 Administration and Classiifcation of Roads Road Oiffcial Function Classiifcation (Actual Provisions) Classiifcation Executive Order No. 113, Series MPWH (now DPWH) of 1955 Design Guidelines, Criteria, and Standards National Section 1) Section 1.321, Part 3, Roads Volume II) National Roads consist of two (2) classes namely, national Public roads, declared primary and national secondary. as national roads by the National primary forms part President of the Philippines of the main trunk-line system upon recommendation of continuous in extent; roads the Minister of Public Works which are now declared national and Highways satisfying roads except those not forming the conditions set forth parts of the continuous system, under Executive Order such as roads leading to national No. 113, establishing the airports, sea ports and parks, classiifcation of roads. etc., or coast-to-coast roads National roads are classiifed not forming continuous parts of as primary and secondary the trunk line system; and city roads. The former forms the roads and street forming the part of the main highway secondary trunk line system not trunkline system which is classiifed as “primary roads”, but continuous in extent; the shall exclude “feeder road”. All latter includes all access national roads, whether primary roads forming a secondary or secondary, shall be declared trunkline system as such by the President of the Philippines upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Department of the Public Works and Communications. National Roads shall have a right-of-way of not less than twenty (20) meters, provided the Secretary of Public Works and Communications upon the recommendation of the Provincial and City Boards and the Commissioner of Public