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1965 / Jun

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4284 AN ACT TO CONVERT THE PASUQUIN NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PASUQUIN, PROVINCE OF ILOCOS NORTE, INTO A COLLEGE TO BE KNOWN AS ILOCOS NORTE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE APPROPRIATION OF THE NECESSARY FUNDS THEREFOR. June 19, 1965

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4284, June 19, 1965 ]

AN ACT TO CONVERT THE PASUQUIN NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PASUQUIN, PROVINCE OF ILOCOS NORTE, INTO A COLLEGE TO BE KNOWN AS ILOCOS NORTE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE APPROPRIATION OF THE NECESSARY FUNDS THEREFOR.



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The Pasuquin National Agricultural School located in the Municipality of Pasuquin, Province of Ilocos Norte, is hereby converted into a college to be known as Ilocos Norte Agricultural College.

SEC. 2. The Ilocos Norte Agricultural College shall offer, in addition to the secondary agricultural curriculum, any or all of the following collegiate courses at the discretion of the Director of the Bureau of Vocational Education:
  1. Two-year technical agricultural course leading to the title of Associate in Agriculture;
  2. Four-year teacher education course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education;
  3. Four-year technical agricultural course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture.
SEC. 3. The Ilocos Norte Agricultural College shall be headed by a Superintendent of Agricultural Instruction and shall be under the Bureau of Vocational Education. The Superintendent shall have direct administration and supervision over all the agricultural schools in the Province of Ilocos Norte under the Bureau of Vocational Education.SEC. 4. The physical and financial assets, liabilities personnel equipment, and records of the Pasuquin National Agricultural School stand transferred to the Ilocos Norte Agricultural College.SEC. 5. The sum of one 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 said school for the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-six. Thereafter, the necessary sum for said purpose shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.SEC. 6. The Secretary of Education is hereby empowered to reorganize said school accordingly.SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.Approved, June 19, 1965.