[ Act No. 3889, November 16, 1931 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF SURVEYING, CREATE A BOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR SURVEYORS, DEFINE ITS POWERS AND DUTIES, AND APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THIS PURPOSE," AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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 five of Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 5. The members of the Board who are not government officials shall receive from insular funds the sum of five pesos for each session attended: Provided, That they may in no case receive more than twenty pesos per month. The member elected as Secretary-Treasurer shall receive from insular funds, as compensation, the sum of three hundred pesos per annum."The secetary-treasurer shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Board, an account book and a register of the persons to whom licenses have been issued, setting, forth the name, age, marital condition, residence, post-office address, and the name of the institution in which he studied And from which he graduated. The Board of Examiners shall, during the first fifteen days of January of each year, present to the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources a detailed report of all its work during the previous year."

SEC. 2. Section six of Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 6. The Board of Examiners for Surveyors shall meet in the City of Manila for the purpose of holding examinations, on the first Tuesday not a holiday of June of each year, upon at least thirty days notice published in two of the most widely read newspapers of the capital, one in English and the other in Spanish."The Board of Examiners shall hold three kinds of examination for the practice of surveying, to wit:"(1) For isolated surveys of private land for registration purposes, public lands, topographic and hydrographic surveys, levelling, and subdivisions;"(2) For cadastral surveys; and"(3) For mineral surveys."Candidates for surveyor may take these three kinds of examinations at once or separately, provided they have the following qualifications;"(a) Be twenty years of age or over;"(b) Be of good moral conduct;"(c) Have diplomas or certificates showing the holder to have completed four years of high school or their equivalent and have studied and practised the following subjects in a school, college, or university duly constituted and recognized as such by the Government, for not less than two years, and have had not less than one year of practice in surveying work after graduation; or have qualified in the civil-service examination for junior surveyor and have worked as such for a period of not less than one year after having qualified in the civil-service examination for junior surveyor:"1. Algebra;"2. Plane and sphere geometry;"3. Plane and sphere trigonometry;"4. Fundamental principles of physics and theory of the lense;"5. Drawing and making plans, including the system of coordinates;"6. Astronomy, on observation and computation of the position of the sun, polars, and stars;     ."7. Theory, fundamental principles and use of the stadia;"8. Direct and indirect measuring of distances with stadia and chain;"9. Surveys with compass or alidade and stadia;"10. Topographic and hydrographic surveys;"11. Levelling;"12. Use and manipulation of transit, compass, and telescopes for levelling;          ,"13. Surveying of mineral lands;"14. Surveying of land under the cadastral system;"15. System of land surveying in the United, States;"16. Regulations, cadastral and public land laws governing land surveys in the Philippine Islands, mining laws, and any other subjects prescribed by the Board in the regulations issued by it."Candidates for cadastral surveyor or mineral surveyor may submit to examination as such provided they have passed the examination for isolated surveys and have made isolated surveys for a period of not less than three years after having passed the examination for isolated surveys."

SEC. 3. Section nine of Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 9. All persons who shall, before this Act takes effect, have taken any examination for the practice of surveying held by the Civil Service or the Bureau of Lands and have failed to obtain the necessary average to qualify as such, may take the examination before the Board of Examiners created by this Act not oftener than four times, subject to the same conditions under which they were admitted to examination in the Civil Service or the Bureau of Lands. If at the expiration of this period they have not been successful in obtaining a passing grade in their examination, they shall be obliged to take the examination under the provisions of this Act."

SEC. 4. Section ten of Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 10. The Board of Examiners may suspend or revoke the license or certificate as practising surveyor granted to any person in case the same has been convicted by any court of a crime involving moral turpitude, if he has been guilty of immoral and dishonest conduct, if he is mentally incapacitated, or for unprofessional conduct. The decision of the Board shall be rendered after an investigation in which the accused shall be heard, and said accused may appeal to the Department head, whose decision shall be final administratively."

SEC. 5. Section eleven of Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 11. It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise as surveyor or practise as such without being in possession of the proper certificate or license issued by the Board of Examiners for Surveyors. A person shall be held to practise surveying not only if he prepares the plan of a piece of land for registration in the register of property, but also if he does any work in which transit and chain are used, for property registration purposes."

SEC. 6. Section thirteen of Act Slumbered Thirty-six hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 13. The sum of two thousand pesos is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be placed at the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources for disbursement in accordance with the provisions of this Act."

 SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved, November 16, 1931.

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