REPUBLIC ACT No. 5253
An Act to Convert the Bohol National Agricultural School in the Municipality of Bilar, Province of Bohol, into a College to be Known as Bohol Agricultural College and to Appropriate the Necessary Funds Therefor
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. The Bohol National Agricultural School located in the Municipality of Bilar, Province of Bohol, is hereby converted into a college to be known as Bohol Agricultural College.
Section 2. The Bohol Agricultural College shall offer, in addition to the secondary agricultural curriculum, any or all of the following courses at the discretion of the Director of the Bureau of Vocational Education:
(a) Two-year technical agricultural course leading to the title of Associate in Agriculture;
(b) Four-year technical agricultural course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture;
(c) Four-year teacher education course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education.
Section 3. The Bohol Agricultural College 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 the Bohol National Agricultural School stand transferred to the Bohol Agricultural College.
Section 5. The sum of two hundred thousand pesos is hereby authorized 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-nine.1avvphi1 Thereafter, the necessary sum for said purpose shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Section 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: June 15, 1968.
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