QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 248)
To control and supervise the operations of motor vehicle driving schools in order to raise the standard of instruction, develop safety consciousness and positive driving attitudes, and minimize traffic accidents causing loss of life and damage to property.
The Land Transportation Commission (LTC) is empowered to exercise control and supervision over the operations of motor vehicle driving schools.
In the exercise of its functions, the Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations for the guidance of motor vehicle driving schools.
The Commission must receive and pass upon all applications to ascertain whether the school’s course of study, buildings, classrooms, training aids, equipment, and other facilities conform with the minimum standards required by the Commission’s rules and regulations.
The Commission must check if the school’s course of study, buildings, classrooms, training aids, equipment, and other facilities meet the minimum standards under the applicable rules and regulations.
It emphasizes that better instruction and safety-conscious driving attitudes will reduce the incidence of traffic accidents.
It refers to the baseline requirements for driving schools, set through the Commission’s rules and regulations, which must be met in order for applications to be approved.
The Commission must promulgate rules and regulations to guide driving schools and to establish the minimum standards used to evaluate applications.
It includes control and supervision: the EO expressly empowers the Land Transportation Commission to exercise control and supervision over the operations of motor vehicle driving schools.
It means the Commission reviews every application submitted by motor vehicle driving schools and determines compliance with the minimum standards before approval.
Examples include: course of study, buildings, classrooms, training aids, equipment; also “other facilities.”
The EO was signed by Ferdinand E. Marcos, and the Executive Secretary listed is Alejandro Melchor.