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PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES & CODES
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PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES - CHAN ROBLES VIRTUAL LAW
LIBRARYREPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC
ACT NO. 6341
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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6341 - AN
ACT CONVERTING THE VIRAC NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL AND TRADE SCHOOL IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF VIRAC, PROVINCE OF CATANDUANES, TO A STATE COLLEGE TO
BE KNOWN AS THE CATANDUANES STATE COLLEGES, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
THEREFORE
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Section
1. The
Virac National Agricultural and Trade School in the Municipality of
Virac, Province of Catanduanes, is hereby converted into a college to
be known as the Catanduanes State Colleges, hereinafter called Colleges
which shall offer courses leading to the titles of Associate in
Business Education, Associate in Commerce, four-year courses leading to
the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Business Education, Bachelor of
Science in Commerce, Bachelor of Science in Education, and five-years
courses leading to the degrees of Master of Arts in Business Education,
Master of Arts in Education, and Master of Arts in Commerce.
Sec. 2. The purpose of said Colleges shall be to
provide higher professional and technical instruction and training in
business education and commerce; and for special purposes, to promote
research, advance studies, and progressive leadership in the field of
education, business education and commerce.
Sec. 3. No student shall be denied admission to
the Colleges by reason of age, sex, nationality, religious belief, or
political affiliation.
Sec. 4. The head of this institution shall be
known as the President of the Catanduanes State Colleges. He shall be
appointed by the President of the Philippines upon recommendation of
the Board of Trustees. The powers and duties of the President of the
Colleges in addition to those specifically provided for in this Act,
shall be those usually pertaining to the office of the President of a
college.
Sec. 5. The Board of Trustees of the Catanduanes
State Colleges shall 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 House of Representatives, the Director of
Public Schools, the President of the Colleges, and the President of the
Catanduanes State Colleges Alumni Association.n the absence or the
inability of the Secretary of Education, as ex-officio Chairman of the
Board of Trustees, or in the event that there is no incumbent Secretary
of Education, the Undersecretary of Education shall act as the
ex-officio 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, or when these two positions
are vacant, the members of the Board may elect from among themselves a
temporary chairman who shall act as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Members of the Board shall serve without compensation other than 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. 6. The Board of Trustees shall have the
following powers and duties in addition to its general powers of
administration and the exercise of all the powers of a corporation as
provided in Section thirteen of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred
fifty-nine, as amended, otherwise known as the Corporation Law:
(a) To elect a temporary chairman in the absence of
both the Secretary and the Undersecretary of Education;
(b) To receive and appropriate to the ends specified
by law such sums as may be provided by law for the support of the
Colleges;
(c) To confer the titles of Associate in Business
Education, Associate in Commerce, and the degrees of Bachelor of
Science in Business Education, Bachelor of Science in Education,
Bachelor of Science in Commerce, Master of Arts in Business Education,
Master of Arts in Education, and Master of Arts in Commerce, to
successful candidates for graduation;
(d) To appoint, on the recommendation of the
President of the Colleges, professors, instructors, lecturers, and
other employees of the Colleges, to fix their compensation, hours of
service, and such other duties and conditions as it may deem proper; to
grant to them, in its discretion. leave of absence under such
regulations as it may promulgate, any other provisions of law to the
contrary notwithstanding, and to remove them for cause after an
investigation and hearing shall have been had;
(e) To approve the curricula and rules of discipline
drawn up by the Colleges Council as hereinafter provided;
(f) To fix the tuition fees required of students, as
well as matriculation fees, graduation fees and fees for laboratory
courses, and all special fees, and to remit the same in special cases,
constituting special trust fund of the Colleges;
(g) To provide fellowship for faculty members and
scholarships to students showing special evidence of merit;
(h) To prescribe rules for its own government, and to
enact for the government of the Colleges such general ordinances and
regulations, not contrary to law, as are consistent with the purposes
of the Colleges as defined in Section two of this Act; and
(i) 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 Colleges, or of the department thereof,
or for and to any student or students, in accordance with the direction
and instructions of the donor, and, in default thereof, in such manner
as the Board of Trustees may in its discretion determine.
Sec. 7. 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. 8. On or before the fifteen 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 Colleges.
Sec. 9. There shall be a College Council,
consisting of the President of the Colleges and all instructors and
professors of the Colleges. The Council shall have the power to
prescribe the curricula and rules of discipline, subject to the
approval of the Board of Trustees.t shall fix the requirements for
admission to the Colleges, as well as for graduation and the receiving
of a title or degree. The Council alone shall have the power to
recommend students or others to be recipients of titles or 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.
SECTION 10. The body of instructor and professors of
the Colleges shall constitute the faculty of the Colleges, with the
President as the presiding officer.n the appointment of professors or
instructors of the Colleges, no religious test shall be applied, nor
shall the religious opinions or affiliations of the faculty of the
Colleges be made a matter of examination or inquiry: provided, however,
that no instructor or professor in the Colleges 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 Colleges for or against any
particular church or religious sect.
SECTION 11. Professors and other regular instructors
in the Colleges shall be exempt as such from any civil service
examinations or regulations as a requisite to appointment.
SECTION 12. There shall be a secretary of the
Colleges, appointed by the Board of Trustees. He shall be the secretary
of such Board and also of the Colleges, and shall keep such records of
the Colleges as may be designated by the Board.
SECTION 13. The President of the Colleges, with the
cooperation of the superintendent of schools of the province, may use
one or more of the secondary schools in the province as training or
laboratory schools of the Colleges.
SECTION 14. The Treasurer of the Philippines shall be
ex-officio Treasurer of the Colleges and all accounts and expenses
thereof shall be audited by the Auditor General or his duly authorized
representatives.
SECTION 15. For carrying out the purposes and
provisions of this Act, the sum of five hundred thousand pesos is
hereby appropriated from any funds in the National Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, in addition to the current appropriation of the
Virac National Agricultural and Trade School. Thereafter, such sums as
may be necessary for its operation and maintenance shall be included in
the annual General Appropriations Act.
SECTION 16. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 19, 1971.
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