Establishing Samar Institute of Technology

Section 2 provides that the head of the Institute is the President of the Samar Institute of Technology.
The President must be appointed by the President of the Philippines upon the recommendation of the Board of Trustees.
The President’s powers and duties, in addition to those provided in the Act, are those usually pertaining to the office of the president of a college or university.

Section 3 vests governance in the Board of Trustees of the Samar Institute of Technology.
The Board is composed of: the Secretary of Education (as chairman), the Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Senate, the Chairman of the Committee on Education of the House of Representatives, the Director of Public Schools, the President of the Institute, and a prominent resident of Samar designated by the President of the Philippines.
Section 3 states that trustees serve without compensation other than actual and necessary expenses incurred for attendance at Board meetings or other authorized official business.

Section 4 grants the Board, in addition to general administration powers, the duty and authority to:
- Receive and appropriate sums provided by law for the Institute’s support.
- Confer certificates, diplomas, or degrees upon successful graduation candidates.
- Appoint, on the recommendation of the Institute President, teachers and other Institute employees; fix compensation, hours of service, and duties/conditions; grant leave of absence under Board regulations (notwithstanding any contrary law provision); and remove for cause only after due investigation and hearing.
- Approve curricula and rules of discipline drawn up by the Institute Council.
- Fix tuition fees, matriculation fees, graduation fees, laboratory course fees, and all special fees, and to remit them in special cases.
- Provide fellowships for faculty members and scholarships to students showing evidence of special merit.
- Provide rules for the Board’s own government and promulgate general ordinances and regulations for Institute governance, provided they are not contrary to law.
- Receive in trust legacies, gifts, and donations of real and personal property and administer them for Institute benefit or aid to students, following donor instructions, or—if none exist—following the Board’s discretion.
- Mortgage, lease, pledge, or otherwise encumber all or any portion of the Institute’s real or personal properties.

Section 5 provides that Board quorum consists of a majority of all the members.
Section 5 requires that all process against the Board of Trustees be served on the President or secretary thereof.

Section 6 requires the Board to file with the President of the Philippines a detailed report on or before the fifteenth day of June of each year.
The report must set forth the Institute’s progress, conditions, and needs.

Section 7 creates an Institute Council consisting of the President of the Institute and all instructors and professors.
The Council must prescribe curricula and rules of discipline, subject to Board of Trustees approval.
Section 7 directs the Council to fix requirements for admission, and requirements for graduation and receiving a degree.
The Council alone may recommend students or others to be recipients of degrees.
The Council, through its President or a committee, must exercise disciplinary power over students within the limits of the approved rules of discipline.

Section 8 states that the body of teachers, principals, supervisors, instructors, and professors constitutes the faculty, with the President of the Institute as presiding officer.
Section 8 prohibits religious tests in the appointment of professors or instructors, and prohibits making religious opinions or affiliations a matter of examination or inquiry.
Section 8 requires that no instructor or professor shall inculcate sectarian tenets in teaching.
Section 8 prohibits any instructor or professor, directly or indirectly, from attempting to influence students or attendants for or against any particular church or religious sect, under penalty of dismissal by the Board of Trustees.

Section 9 provides that professors and other regular instructors in the Institute are exempt from civil service examinations or regulations as a requisite for appointment.

Section 10 requires a secretary of the Institute, appointed by the Board of Trustees.
The secretary must serve as secretary of the Board and as secretary of the Institute.
The secretary must keep the Institute’s records as designated by the Board.

Section 11 abolishes the Catarman Agricultural High School.
Section 11 transfers to the Samar Institute of Technology:
- all personnel,
- unexpended appropriations,
- properties, and
- other assets.

Section 12 authorizes the appropriation of fifty thousand pesos (PHP 50,000) from any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated to carry out the purposes of the Act.