04/02/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly coasts, to the full width recognized by international law. The state provides for and regulates the police supervision and the uses of this zone as well as the right of refuge and immunity therein, in accordance with law and international treaties. With respect to forests, there are references made regarding State-ownership of forest lands in Supreme Court decisions (See Director of Forestry vs. Munoz, 23 SCRA 1183, 1198-1199 [1968]; Director of Lands vs. Abanzado, 65 SCRA 5, 11 [1975]; Mapa vs. Insular Government, 10 Phil. 175, 184 [1908]; Montano vs. Insular Government, 12 Phil 572, 584 [1909]). The State's ownership over natural resources was embodied in the 1935, 1973 and 1987 Constitutions. Section 1, Article XII of the 1935 Constitution declared: All agricultural, timber and mineral lands of the public domain, waters, minerals, coal, petroleum and other mineral oils, all forces of potential energy, and other natural resources of the Philippines belong to the State, and their disposition, exploitation, development, or utilization shall be limited to citizens of the Philippines, or to corporations or associations at least sixty per centum of the capital of which is owned by such citizens, subject to any existing right, grant, lease or concession at the time of the inauguration of the Government established under this Constitution. Natural resources, with the exception of public agricultural land, shall not be alienated, and no license, concession, or lease for the exploitation, or utilization of any of the natural resources shall be granted for a period exceeding twenty-five years, renewable for another twenty five years, except as to water rights for irrigation, water supply, fisheries, or industrial uses other than the development of water power, in which cases beneficial use may be the measure and the limit of the grant. Section 8, Article XIV of the 1973 Constitution provided: All lands of the public domain, waters, minerals, coal, petroleum and other mineral oils, all forces of potential energy, fisheries, wildlife, and other natural resources of the Philippines belong to the State. With the exception of agricultural, industrial or commercial, residential, and resettlement lands of the public domain, natural resources shall not be alienated, and no license, concession, or lease for the exploration, development, exploitation, or utilization of any of the natural resources shall be granted for a period exceeding twenty-five years, renewable for not more than twenty-five years, except as to water rights for irrigation water supply, fisheries, or industrial uses other than the development of water power, in which cases, beneficial use may be the measure and limit of the grant. [133] NOBLEJAS, PHILIPPINE LAW ON NATURAL RESOURCES 1961 Revised Ed., p. 6 [134] See LAUREL (ED.), PROCEEDINGS OF THE PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, VOL. VI, pp. 494-495. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/36882 123/148