REPUBLIC ACT No. 4084

An Act to Convert Batac Rural High School in the Municipality of Batac, Province of Ilocos Norte, into a College, to be Known as the Ilocos Norte Institute of Technology, and to Authorize the Appropriation of Funds Therefor

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. Batac Rural High School in the Municipality of Batac, Province of Ilocos Norte, is hereby converted into a college to be known as the Ilocos Norte Institute of Technology.

Section 2. The Ilocos Norte Institute of Technology shall offer, in addition to the secondary agricultural curriculum, any or all of the following courses, at the discretion of the Director of Vocational Education: four-year secondary trade curriculum, four-year technical agriculture curriculum, four-year technical trade curriculum, and four-year teacher education curricula leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Education (BSAE) and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education (BSIE).

Section 3. The Ilocos Norte Institute of Technology shall be headed by a superintendent of agricultural instruction and shall be under the Bureau of Vocational Education.

Section 4. The physical and financial assets, liabilities, personnel, equipment, and records of Batac Rural High School are hereby transferred to the Ilocos Norte Institute of Technology.

Section 5. The sum of three 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 college, in addition to the present national appropriation of the said school for the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-five.1âшphi1 Thereafter, such necessary sums for the same purpose shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

Section 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 18, 1964.


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