QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 1948)
Republic Act No. 3809 is an act converting the Sumoroy Memorial Vocational School in Palapag, Samar into an agro-industrial school known as the Sumoroy Agro-Industrial School, and authorizing the appropriation of funds for its conversion, operation, and maintenance.
It is located in the Municipality of Palapag, Province of Samar.
It mandates the conversion of a vocational school into an agro-industrial school.
The school will be known as the Sumoroy Agro-Industrial School.
Section 1 expressly states the conversion.
It provides that the Sumoroy Memorial Vocational School is converted into an agro-industrial school and designated as the Sumoroy Agro-Industrial School.
The law authorizes the appropriation of two hundred thousand pesos.
Out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
For the conversion, operation, and maintenance of the school during the fiscal year 1964.
No. It authorizes funds for fiscal year 1964 and states that thereafter, the necessary sums for operation and maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts.
It means continued funding beyond 1964 is subject to appropriation through future General Appropriation Acts, rather than being automatically guaranteed by RA 3809 alone.
Section 2.
It takes effect upon its approval, as provided in Section 3.
It indicates that the law becomes operative immediately upon the date it is approved (without waiting for a later specific effectivity date).
The Act was approved on June 22, 1963.
Municipality of Palapag, Province of Samar.
The intent is to shift the school’s educational focus toward agro-industrial training, supported by government funding for conversion, operation, and maintenance.
It is primarily a conversion (substantive) law but includes an appropriation provision (Section 2) authorizing funding for the fiscal year 1964.