Full Title
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE BY AUTHORIZING THE SUSPENSION FROM PRACTICE AND THE CANCELLATION OF THE CERTIFICATE OF THE AUTHORIZED PRIVATE SURVEYORS FOR CERTAIN CAUSES.
Congress
Date of Approval
March 15, 1923
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Legislative Issuance Type
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Official Gazette
Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 21 no. 78 page 1357 (6/30/1923)
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[ Act No. 3092, March 16, 1923 ]
AN ACT TA AMEND SECTION ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE OF THE REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE CODE BY AUTHORIZING THE SUSPENSION FROM PRACTICE AND THE CANCELLATION OF THE CERTIFICATE OF THE AUTHORIZED PRIVATE SURVEYORS FOR CERTAIN CAUSES
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:SECTION 1. Section one thousand eight hundred and sixty- five of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, generally known as the Revised Administrative Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 1865. Cancellation of certificate and suspension from practice.—When the Director of Lands shall find that any certificated private surveyor submits any plan or survey made by him which is defective, incorrect, or substantially erroneous, owing to incompetency, inexperience, bad faith, or inexcusable negligence; or fails to forward within a reasonable length of time to the Bureau of Lands for verification any survey work contracted by him to the prejudice and detriment of his clients; or that he is guilty of any fraud, deceit, malpractice, or misconduct in the exercise of his profession, or of disregarding the instructions, rules and regulations issued by the said Bureau concerning the survey and preparation of his plans, the said Director may, after due investigation, suspend or cancel the certificate of such surveyor; but the latter may, within thirty days after receiving notice of such action, take an appeal to a committee composed of the Department Head, the Judge of the fourth branch of the Court of First Instance for the Ninth Judicial District, and a duly authorized surveyor appointed by the Governor-General. Pending appeal the right of the surveyor shall be suspended, and the action of said committee shall be final."
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved, March 16, 1923.
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