REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4572 - AN ACT
CONVERTING THE LEYTE REGIONAL SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES INTO THE LEYTE
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GIVING IT CORPORATE EXISTENCE, PROVIDING FOR A
BOARD OF TRUSTEES, DEFINING THE BOARD'S RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES,
PROVIDING HIGHER VOCATIONAL, PROFESSIONAL, EDUCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL
INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING IN TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION, OFFERING OF
TECHNOLOGICAL, ENGINEERING, EDUCATION AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL COURSES,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Section 1. The present Leyte Regional School of Arts and
Trades located in the City of Tacloban, Philippines, is hereby
converted into the Leyte Institute of Technology which shall offer not
only its present four-year secondary trade, four-year technical courses
and four-year courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Science in
Industrial Arts and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education but
also the five-year course leading to the degree of Master of Arts in
Industrial Education and engineering courses, particularly those
leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering,
Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical
Engineering, and as soon as facilities warrant, Pharmacy, Liberal Arts,
Dentistry, Commerce, Medicine, Foreign Service, Law, and Agriculture
courses. Evening classes in the above-mentioned courses shall be
offered.
Sec. 2. The purpose of said Institute of
Technology shall be to provide higher vocational, professional, and
technical instruction and training in trade and industrial education
and other vocational courses, professional courses, such as Medicine,
Law, Commerce, Pharmacy, Education, Agriculture, Dentistry, Liberal
Arts, and Foreign Service and to offer engineering courses to uplift
the technological potential and talents of the youth in this part of
the archipelago; and for special purposes to promote research, advance
studies and progressive leadership in the field of trade, technical,
industrial and technological education.
Sec. 3. The head of this institution shall be
known as the President of the Leyte Institute of Technology. He shall
be appointed by the President of the Philippines upon recommendation of
the Board of Trustees, subject to the confirmation of the Commission on
Appointments. The powers and duties of the President of the Institute,
in addition to those specifically provided for in this Act, shall be
those pertaining to the office of the president of a college.
Sec. 4. The government of the Leyte Institute of
Technology is hereby vested in a Board of Trustees, to be composed of
the Secretary of Education, who shall be ex-officio Chairman of the
Board, 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 Vocational Education, the President of the Leyte
Institute of Technology and the President of the Chamber of Industries
of the Philippines, as members. In the absence of inability to the
Secretary of Education, the Undersecretary of Education shall act as
the ex-officio Chairman of the Board. In the absence of inability of
both the Secretary and Undersecretary of Education or when those
positions are vacant, the other members of the Board may elect from
among themselves a temporary chairman who shall act as Chairman.
The members of the Board of Trustees and Secretary of the Board shall
serve without compensation but will receive a per diem of fifty pesos
per meeting. All members of the Board of Trustees shall be entitled to
reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred either in
attendance upon meetings of the Board or upon other official business
authorized by resolution of the Board.
Sec. 5. The Board of Trustees shall have the
following powers and duties in addition to its general powers of
administration:
(a) To appropriate such sums as may be provided by
law for the support of the Institute;
(b) To confer the degrees of Bachelor of Science in
Industrial Arts, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education, and
Master of Arts in Industrial Education to successful candidates for
graduations;
(c) To confer certificates, diplomas or degrees upon
successful candidates for graduation;
(d) To authorize the President of the Institute to
award a proficiency certificate to students who have finished the first
two years of the four-year curriculum in Technical Education and/or a
diploma to those who have completed the four-year curriculum in
Technical Education;
(e) To appoint on recommendation of the President of
the Institute, dean of instruction, deans of colleges, heads of
departments, registrar, associate professors, professors, guest
lecturers, instructors, teachers and other employees of the Institute;
to fix their compensation, their hours of service and such other duties
and conditions as it may deem necessary and proper; to grant them, in
its discretion leave of absence under such regulations as it may
promulgate, any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, and
to remove them for cause after an investigation and hearing shall have
been had;
(f) To approve the curricula and rules of discipline
drawn by the College Council as hereinafter provided;
(g) To fix as moderately possible, the tuition fees
required of students, as well as matriculation fees, graduation fees
and fees for laboratory courses, and all special fees which shall
constitute a special trust fund for the Institute and to remit such
fees in the case of deserving students;
(h) To provide fellowships for faculty members and
scholarships to students showing special evidence of merit;
(i) To prescribe rules for its own government, and to
enact for the government of the Institute such rules and regulations,
not contrary to law, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and
functions of the Institute as defined in Section two of this Act; and
(j) To receive in trust legacies, gifts and donations
of real and personal property of all kinds and to administer the same
for the benefit of the Institute, or of the departments thereof, or for
aid to any students or students, in accordance with the directions and
instructions of the donor, and, in default thereof, in such manner as
the Board of Trustees may in its discretion determine.
Sec. 6. 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 chairman or secretary thereof.
Sec. 7. On or before the fifteenth day of June of
each year, the Board of Trustees shall file with the President of the
Philippines a detailed report setting forth the progress, condition and
needs of the Institute.
Sec. 8. There shall be a College Council,
consisting of the President of the Institute, dean of instruction,
registrar, college dean, department heads, professors, associate
professors and of all instructors of the Institute. The Council shall
have the power to prescribe the curricula and rules of discipline,
subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees. It shall fix the
requirements for admission to the Institute, as well as for graduation
and the receiving of a title or degree. The College Council alone shall
have the power to recommend students or others to be recipients of
title or degrees. Through its president or committee, it shall have
disciplinary power over the students within limits prescribed by the
rules of discipline approved by the Board of Trustees.
Sec. 9. The body of instructors, associate
professors, professors, department heads, college deans, registrar,
dean of instruction shall constitute the faculty of the Institute, with
the President of the Institute as the presiding officer. In the
appointment of professors, guest professors, guest lecturers,
registrar, college deans, department heads, instructors and office
personnel 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, that no
instructor, professor in the Institute shall inculcate sectarian tenets
in any of the teachings, nor attempts 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 of religious sect.
SECTION 10. The Registrar, in addition to his regular
duties, shall act as the Secretary of the Institute who shall be at the
same time the Secretary of the Board of Trustees and shall keep such
records of the Institute or such other duties as may be designated by
the Board.
SECTION 11. The professors and other regular
instructors of the Institute shall be exempt as such from any civil
service examination or regulations as a requisite for appointment.
SECTION 12. The Board of Trustees shall fix the
compensation of the employees and other personnel of the Institute
whose appointment will be recommended by the President of the
Institute.
SECTION 13. The compensation per annum of the
following shall be fixed by law: President-twenty thousand pesos;
Registrar — ten thousand eight hundred pesos; Dean of Instruction-ten
thousand eight hundred pesos; Dean of College — ten thousand eight
hundred pesos; Lecturers — thirty pesos an hour; Heads of Departments —
ten thousand pesos; Professors — nine thousand six hundred pesos;
Associate Professors — eight thousand four hundred pesos; Instructors —
four thousand two hundred pesos to eight thousand four hundred pesos.
SECTION 14. The President of the Institute, with the
cooperation of Division Superintendents and/or Superintendents of
Schools of Arts and Trades, may use one or more of their secondary or
elementary schools as training or laboratory schools for
student-teaching of the Institute.
SECTION 15. Heads of bureaus and offices of the
National Government are hereby authorized to loan or transfer, upon
request of the President of the Institute such apparatus, equipment or
supplies as may be needed by the Institute, and to detail employees
therein for duty, when in the judgment of the head of the bureau or
office such apparatus, equipment, supplies or employees can be spared
without serious detriment to the public service. Employees so detailed
shall perform such duties as are required under such detail and the
time so employed shall count as part of their regular service.
SECTION 16. In order not to interrupt the smooth
functioning of the present curricula of the Leyte Regional School of
Arts and Trades, the faculty of the school as well as the other
personnel, shall be absolutely by the new Institute with the incumbent
superintendent performing the functions of the President of the
Institute and the head of the teacher-education department, the
functions of the dean of instruction; the registrar carries over his
duties as registrar of the Institute. Salaries of those personnel shall
be adjusted in accordance with the provisions of Section thirteen of
this Act. Salaries of personnel who do not fall under the provisions of
Section thirteen shall be adjusted at the discretion of the Board of
Trustees within the amount available for appropriation. Salary increase
of office personnel may be effected by the Board of Trustees upon
recommendation of the President of the Institute when their
efficiencies warrant.
SECTION 17. The Treasurer of the Philippines shall be
ex-officio, treasurer of the Institute and all accounts and expenses
thereof shall be audited by the Auditor General or his duly authorized
representative.
The present Auditing Examiner II of the Leyte Regional School of Arts
and Trades shall continue to be the duly authorized representative of
the Auditor General with minimum entrance salary of four thousand eight
hundred pesos per annum. He shall be assisted by three Auditing aides I
to be appointed by the General Auditing Office upon the recommendation
of the President of the Institute with a compensation of two thousand
four hundred pesos per annum each as minimum entrance salary. Their
salary may be increased from year to year upon the recommendation of
the President of the Board of Trustees.
SECTION 18. All the personnel, properties, records
and obligations of the Leyte Regional School of Arts and Trades are
hereby transferred to the Leyte Institute of Technology.
SECTION 19. The sum of one million pesos is hereby
authorized to be appropriated from the National Treasury for the
operation and maintenance of the Leyte Institute of Technology during
the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-five to nineteen hundred
sixty-six. Thereafter, the necessary fund for the purpose shall be
included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Approved: June 19, 1965
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