Org. of Land Tenure Admin; Coord. with Land Reform

Section 1 grants the Chairman administrative control and supervision over all officials and employees of the Land Tenure Administration.
Section 1 expressly includes coverage over the two members when they are not sitting as members of the Administration.

Section 2 assigns the Legal Staff the primary responsibility for the performance of all legal work, activities, and functions of the Land Tenure Administration.

Section 3 assigns the Technical Staff the primary responsibility for activities directly connected with establishing the desirability of purchasing landed estates and their sale to tenants of the public.
Section 3 assigns the Technical Staff the primary responsibility for the compilation and analysis of statistics and survey reports of all other land reform agencies.
Section 3 requires the Technical Staff to prepare plans for the systematic opening of virgin land of the public domain.
Section 3 requires the preparation of schedules of areas of family size farm units.

Section 4 assigns the Survey Services Staff the primary responsibility for surveying and the definition of land boundaries.
Section 4 covers boundaries both for land to be purchased and for subsequent subdivisions to be sold.

Section 5 assigns the Financial Staff the primary responsibility for economic evolution.
Section 5 assigns the Financial Staff the primary responsibility for the issuance and control of land purchase certificates.

Section 6 assigns the Collection and Accounts Staff the primary responsibility for handling accounts due the Administration arising from the sale or lease of lands to tenants.
Section 6 assigns the Collection and Accounts Staff responsibility to keep actual records on the status of every sale with remaining monies due the government.
Section 6 requires keeping records of cash receipts.

Section 7 provides that the Chairman and the two members are each responsible for the proper functioning and administration of the division assigned to them by the Chairman.

Section 8 directs the Chairmen of the Land Tenure Administration and the Agricultural Tenancy Commission to coordinate with the Administrators of the ACCFA and NARRA.
Section 8 requires these officials to work out a written plan of cooperation and coordination.
Section 8 requires the plan to effect economy and provide for a more effective, complete, and integrated implementation of the government’s land reform program.

The order recognizes that Republic Act 1400 provided for a chairman and two members of the Land Tenure Administration and three divisions—the Legal Staff, Technical Staff, and Financial Staff—without defining responsibilities of officials or the functions of the divisions.
The order states that it will promote efficiency and economy to delineate division functions and to fix individual responsibilities of the Chairman and the two members.
The order declares a greater need for formal cooperation and coordination among land reform agencies to integrate the land reform program.

Executive Order No. 140 relies on Republic Act 1400 as the baseline for the existing structure of the Land Tenure Administration.
Executive Order No. 140 expands the organizational detail by delineating division functions and fixing individual responsibilities.