REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5088 - AN ACT
CONVERTING EULOGIO RODRIGUEZ VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL INTO THE EULOGIO
RODRIGUEZ MEMORIAL SCHOOL OF ARTS AND TRADES AND AMENDING FOR THIS
PURPOSE CERTAIN SECTIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FOUR THOUSAND
SEVENTY-TWO, ENTITLED "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A
VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE EULOGIO RODRIGUEZ VOCATIONAL
HIGH SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF MANILA
Section 1. Eulogio Rodriguez Vocational High School in the
City of Manila is hereby converted into a school of arts and trades to
be known as the Eulogio Rodriguez Memorial School of Arts and
Trades.
Sec. 2. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Four
thousand seventy-two is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. The school is hereby authorized to offer
technical education courses and such other opportunity courses
essential to meet the needs of Manila and other metropolitan area."
Sec. 3. Section two of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. The Eulogio Rodriguez Memorial School of
Arts and Trades shall be headed by a superintendent of arts and trades
whose salary shall be the same amount as that of the superintendent in
a first class city. The present head of the school shall become its
first superintendent and the assistant principal shall become the head
of the technical education department. Thereafter, the superintendent
shall be appointed by the Secretary of Education upon the
recommendation of the Director of Vocational Education. The head of the
technical education department, together with the other personnel of
this department, shall be appointed by the Director of Vocational
Education upon the recommendation of its superintendent subject to
existing rules and regulations."
Sec. 4. Section three of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 3. The head of the technical education
department shall receive not less than eight thousand four hundred
pesos per annum and each technical instructor shall receive not less
than four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum."
Sec. 5. Section four of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 4. The school registrar and other needed staff
personnel in said office shall be appointed by the Director of
Vocational Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent and
their salaries shall be paid out of national funds."
Sec. 6. Section five of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 5. The operation and maintenance of the
technical education department shall be financed by the National
Government. The organization of the technical education department
shall follow the same staffing pattern as the existing school of arts
and trades offering similar curricula."
Sec. 7. Section six of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 6. The operation and maintenance of the
secondary department of the school, including its day and evening
secondary school departments, but excluding the technical education
department, shall continue to be financed by the Government of the City
of Manila. The present teachers and other personnel of Rodriguez
Vocational High School shall continue in the same capacity under the
secondary department of the school of arts and trades. The secondary
department shall have a principal and an assistant principal who shall
be appointed by the Director of Vocational Education upon the
recommendation of the superintendent of the school."
Sec. 8. Section seven of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 7. Provincial students may be enrolled in the
said technical education department of the school after all qualified
resident applicants in the City of Manila shall have been admitted."
Sec. 9. There is hereby inserted between Section s
seven and eight of the same Act two new sections to be indicated as
Section seven-A and Section seven-B to read as follows:
"Sec. 7-A. The Secretary of Education is hereby
empowered to locate and acquire or cause to be located and acquired an
additional school site for the establishment of the technical education
department of the Eulogio Rodriguez Memorial School of Arts and Trades
which may be public or private land situated within the City of
Manila."
"Sec. 7-B. The Director of Vocational Education with
the approval of the Secretary of Education shall issue such rules and
regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act."
SECTION 10. Section eight of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 8. The sum of five hundred thousand pesos is
hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the operation and maintenance
of the technical education department of the Eulogio Rodriguez Memorial
School of Arts and Trades during the fiscal year nineteen hundred
sixty-six. Thereafter, such sums as may be necessary for its operation
and maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriations
Act."
SECTION 11. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 17, 1967.
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