compilation laws

Question 1

A public way intended to serve both pedestrian and emergency vehicles, and also access to lots, both end always connecting to streets.

Answer 1

ALLEY

Question 2

A parcel of land bounded on the sides by streets or alleys or pathways or other natural or manmade features, and occupied by or intended for buildings,

Answer 2

BLOCK

Question 3

A single-family attached dwelling containing three or more separate living units grouped closely together to form relatively compact structures.

Answer 3

CLUSTER HOUSING

Question 4

Shall mean the HumanSettlements Regulatory Commission.

Answer 4

COMMISSION

Question 5

Facilities or structures intended facilities to serve common needs and for the benefit of the community, such as: neighborhood/ multi-purpose center, health center, drugstore, school, livelihood center, etc.

Answer 5

COMMUNITY

Question 6

A building designed or used as residence for one or more families.

Answer 6

DWELLING

Question 7

A dwelling for one family which is completely surrounded by permanent open spaces, with independent access, services, and use of land.

Answer 7

Single-Family Detached

Question 8

A dwelling containing two or more separate living units each of which is separated from another by party or lot lines walls and provided with independent access, services, and include duplexes, cluster housing.

Answer 8

Duplex/Single Attached

Question 9

A dwelling on one lot containing separate living units for 3 or more families usually provided with common access, services, and use of land.

Answer 9

Multi-Family Dwelling

Question 10

A type of housing project provided socialized housing to moderately low income families with lower interest rates and longer amortization periods.

Answer 10

ECONOMIC AND

Question 11

Any wall which separate two abutting living units so as to resist the spread of fire. Such wall shall be of masonry construction e.g., cement hollow blocks, bricks, reinforced concrete, etc. at least “4” thick, and shall extend throughout the whole length of the living units and from the lowest portion of the wall adjoining the living units up to the point just below the roof covering of purlins.

Answer 11

FIREBLOCK

Question 12

is the time period length of time a material can rating withstand being burned which may be one-hour, 2-hours, 3-hours, 4-hours, etc.

Answer 12

Fire resistive time period.

Question 13

A fire block with extends vertically from the lowest portion of the wall which adjoins the 2 living units up to a minimum height of 0.30 meter above the highest portion of the roof attached to it; the fire wall shall also extend horizontally up to a minimum distance of 0.30 meter beyond the outermost edge of the abutting living units.

Answer 13

FIRE WALL

Question 14

That part or end of a lot which abuts a street.

Answer 14

FRONTAGE

Question 15

A dwelling, or portion thereof, providing complete living facilities for one family, including provisions for living, sleeping, cooking, eating, bathing and toilet facilities and laundry facilities, the same as a single family-dwelling.

Answer 15

LIVING UNIT

Question 16

A portion of a subdivision or any parcel of land intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for building development.

Answer 16

LOT/PLOT

Question 17

A wall used only by the party upon whose lot the wall is located, erected at a line separating two parcels of land each of which is a separate real estate entity.

Answer 17

LOT LINE WALL

Question 17

The purpose for which a building is used or intended to be used. The term shall also include the building or room housing such use. Change of occupancy is not intended to include change of tenants or proprictors.

Answer 17

OCCUPANCY

Question 18



Shall refer to areas allocated for the following purposes:
PARTY WALL
Circulation
Community facilities Park/Playground
Easements
Courts

Answer 18

OPEN SPACE

Question 19

A wall used jointly by two parties under easement agreement, erected upon a line separating two parcels of land each of which is a separate real estate.

Answer 19

Party Wall

Question 19

That portion of the subdivision which is generally not built on and intended for passive or active recreation.

Answer 19

PARK/PLAYGROUND

Question 20

A public way intended for pedestrian and which cuts across a block to provide access to adjacent streets or property with maximum length of 100 meters if connecting to roads and 50 meters if terminating in a dead end.

Answer 20

PATHWALK/FOOTPATH

Question 21

A single-family attached dwelling containing three or more separate living units designed in such a way that they about each other at the sides, as in a row, and are separated from each other by party walls: provided with independent access, services, and use of land.

Answer 21

ROW HOUSE

Question 22

Shall refer to the set of documents REQUIREMENTS required by the Commission for the processing and approval of economic and socialized housing projects including systems and procedures for the implementation and enforcement of BP 220.

Answer 22

TECHNICAL

Question 23


shall refer to a map made as a result of a Cadastral Survey, drawn to appropriate scale and showing all land parcels and important natural and man-made features within municipality/project, for purposes of describing and recording ownership.

Answer 23

Cadastral Map (CM)

Question 24

shall refer to a set of records about parcels of land consisting of a spatial reference and the related information on the area, ownership/claims, value and use of land primarily for taxation purposes.

Answer 24

Cadastre

Question 25

shall refer to the establishment of the permanent forestland and protected area boundaries by conducting actual ground survey.

Answer 25

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Question 25

shall refer to a natural person with professional expertise in the field of surveying and the corresponding survey data presentation in the form of maps, plans, geo-spatial digital maps, etc.; either in the government service or in the private practice, and who has been issued a Certificate of Registration and Identification Card by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)- Board of Geodetic Engineering pursuant to Republic Act 8560,the Geodetic Engineering Act, as amended.

Answer 25

Geodetic Engineer (GE)

Question 26

the standard generic term for satellite navigation systems that provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning with global
coverage.

Answer 26

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)