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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4626 - AN ACT TO
CONVERT LANAO TECHNICAL SCHOOL IN ILIGAN CITY INTO A VOCATIONAL COLLEGE
TO BE KNOWN AS THE NORTHERN MINDANAO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AUTHORIZE
THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Section 1. The Lanao Technical School in Iligan City is hereby converted into a vocational college to be known as the Northern Mindanao Institute of Technology which shall offer elementary, secondary general secondary vocational, and normal courses of instruction and also collegiate, agricultural, and industrial courses leading to bachelor labor as assistance to self-supporting students. Sec. 2. The head of the Institute shall be known as the President of the Northern Mindanao Institute of Technology. He shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines upon recommendation of the Board of Trustees of the Institute, in addition to those specifically provided in this Act, shall be those usually pertaining to the office of the president of a college or university. Sec. 3. The governing body of the Institute shall
be the Board of Trustees of the Northern Mindanao Institute of
Technology. The Board shall be composed of the Secretary of Education,
who shall be the Chairman, the Chairman of the Committee on Education
of the Senate, the Chairman of the Committee on Education of the House
of Representatives, the Director of Public Schools, the Director of
Vocational Education, the President of the Institute and the President
of the Northern Mindanao Institute of Technology, as members. In the
absence or inability of the Secretary of Education, or in the event
that there is no incumbent Secretary of Education, the Undersecretary
of Education shall act as the chairman of the Board of Trustees. When
both the Secretary and the Undersecretary of Education are unable to
exercise the powers of the chairman of the Board of Trustees, the
members of the Board may elect from among themselves a temporary
chairman who shall act as chairman of the Board of Trustees. Sec. 4. The Board of Trustees shall exercise for
the Northern Mindanao Institute of Technology all the powers of a
corporation as provided in Section thirteen of Act Numbered Fourteen
hundred and fifty-nine, as amended. It shall also have the following
powers and duties, in addition to its general powers of administration:
Sec. 5. A quorum of the Board of Trustees shall consist of a majority of all the members. All processes against the Board of Trustees shall be served on the President or Secretary thereof. Sec. 6. On or before the fifteenth day of the second month following the opening of regular classes of each year, the Board of Trustees shall file with the President of the Philippines a detailed report, setting forth the progress, conditions and needs of the Institute. Sec. 7. There shall be an Institute Council consisting of the President of the Institute and of all instructors and professors of the Institute and the heads of the secondary departments. The Council shall have the power to prescribe the curricula and rules of discipline, subject to approval of the Board of Trustees. It shall fix the requirements for admission to the Institute, as well as for graduation and receiving of a degree. The Council alone shall have the power to recommend students or others to be recipients of degrees. Through its president or committee, it shall have disciplinary power over the students within the limits prescribed by the rules of discipline approved by the Board of Trustees. Sec. 8. The body of teachers, principals, supervisors, instructors and professors of the Institute shall constitute the faculty of the Institute, with the President of the Institute as the presiding officer. In the appointment of professors or instructors of the Institute, no religious test shall be applied, nor shall the religious opinions or affiliation of the faculty of the Institute be made a matter of examination or inquiry: provided, however, that no instructor or professor in the Institute shall inculcate sectarian tenets in any of the teachings, nor attempt either directly or indirectly, under penalty of dismissal by the Board of Trustees, to influence students or attendants at the Institute for or against any particular church or religious sect. Sec. 9. Professors and other regular instructors
in the Institute shall be exempt as such from any civil service
examination or regulations as a requisite for appointment. Approved: June 19, 1965 |
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