Conversion of Mountain Provincial High School into Mountain Province General Comprehensive High School

June 15, 1968

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5304

AN ACT CONVERTING MOUNTAIN PROVINCIAL HIGH SCHOOL IN MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, INTO A NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN AS MOUNTAIN PROVINCE GENERAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL, AND AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREFOR

SECTION 1. The Mountain Provincial High School is hereby converted into a national high school, to be known as Mountain Province General Comprehensive High School. Comprehensive curriculum which includes both academic and industrial arts and handicraft courses shall be offered. The Secretary of Education is hereby empowered to reorganize the said school accordingly.

SECTION 2. Upon organization of Mountain Province General Comprehensive High School, the assets, liabilities, personnel, equipment and records of Mountain Provincial High School shall stand transferred to said Mountain Province General Comprehensive High School.

SECTION 3. The sum of two hundred fifty thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the conversion, operation and maintenance of said school in addition to its matriculation and tuition fees, and other revenues during the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-nine. Thereafter, such sums as may be needed for its operation and maintenance shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act. acd

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Enacted without Executive approval, June 15, 1968.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 65, No. 23, p. 5836 on June 9, 1969