Section 1.    The incumbent Governor, the two Members of the House of Representatives, the Mayor of Laoag, the Division Superintendent of Schools, the Provincial Treasurer, the Provincial Auditor, the District Highway Engineer, and the Provincial Fiscal of ILocos Norte are hereby constituted into a body corporate to be known as the Ilocos Norte Educational and Cultural Association, hereinafter called the INECA. The association shall have its principal office in Laoag, Ilocos Norte.

Sec. 2.    It shall be the duty of the INECA:

(a)    to collaborate with the Commission on Parks and Wildlife in the establishment of provincial and municipal parks, monuments, game refuges, bird sanctuaries and game farms in the Province of Ilocos Norte;

(b)    To provide for the administration and maintenance of provincial and municipal parks, monuments, game refuges, bird sanctuaries and game farms in the said province; 

(c)    to establish, operate and maintain athletic stadia, educational, cultural or recreation centers, and other similar facilities;

(d)    to hold educational, cultural or art exhibits as well as expositions of agricultural, horticultural, industrial and commercial products, inventions and other similar articles;

(e)    to manage the celebration of town fiestas and similar festivities with the end in view of not only keeping such celebrations within reasonable bounds and with a minimum of expenses, but also make them as much as possible as movements or drives for progress of the people;

(f)    to charge a fee for admission to any of its exhibits or expositions, or for the use of any recreational or athletic facility operated and maintained by it;

(g)    to accept donations of real property, money or kind in furtherance of its objectives;

(h)    to promulgate rules and regulations regarding the use and enjoyment of the facilities established and/or administered by it;

(i)    to make expenditures, subject to existing laws and regulations governing the disbursement of government funds, for the establishment, care, improvement, development and maintenance of all parks, monuments, preserves, sanctuaries, athletic stadia and other recreational facilities under its control;

(j)    to undertake, with the collaboration of the Presidential Assistant on Community Development, self-help projects specially those along the lines hereinabove mentioned;

(k)    to take charge of the traditional celebration every year of the "Ipon Festival" which marks the first entry of the "bukto" fry from the sea into the different rivers in the province, during which celebration the people welcome the incoming small fish as guests to be preserved until they are big enough for food, thereby impressing them of their legal as well as civic duty to protect fresh water fish resources of the province especially this major source of fish supply, against illegal fishing;

(l)    to contribute whatever it can by way of financial aid to, or of civic campaign among the people in, forest conservation or reforestation especially in areas with possibilities for the establishment of parks or other recreational facilities;

(m)    to promote or aid in the promotion of tourism in the province by developing natural beauty or historical spots, and providing facilities in whatever form for the convenience or comfort of tourists;  

(n)    to reach the people down to the remotest rural areas through barrio councils under the leadership of the mayors, and through the teachers under the leadership of the Division Superintendent of Schools, in order to obtain their cooperation in promoting the objectives herein above set forth.