AMENDING FURTHER SECTION FIFTEEN OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE “GEODETIC ENGINEERING LAW,” AS AMENDED BY PRESIDENTIAL…

WHEREAS, on June 2, 1973, Presidential Decree No. 202 was
promulgated amending Section 15 of Republic Act No. 4374, otherwise
known as the Geodetic Engineering Law, which authorized, under certain
conditions, undergraduates who have completed fourth year of civil
engineering to take and qualify in the Board Examination for Junior
Geodetic Engineers;

WHEREAS, the objective of said Decree was to fill an acute
need for technical manpower to undertake and implement the massive
cadastral and public land sub-division survey program of the Bureau of
Lands, as well as its parcellary mapping operations under the Land
Reform Program of the Administration;

WHEREAS, further studies indicate that an undergraduate who
has completed third year of Civil Engineering would have at that stage
acquired the necessary technical skill and proficiency in handling basic
land survey and mapping work to qualify in the examination for Junior
Geodetic Engineers;

WHEREAS, there are also several graduates of Civil
Engineering who are desirous of taking the Board Examination for Junior
Geodetic Engineers; and

WHEREAS, in order to achieve the objectives of Presidential
Decree No. 202, dated June 2, 1973, it is desirable that the same be
further amended to admit graduates of Civil Engineering or
undergraduates who have completed third year of Civil or Geodetic
Engineering, under certain conditions, to the practice of Geodetic
Engineering as Junior Geodetic Engineers;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and General
Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, as amended, and in order to
effect the desired changes and reforms in the social, economic and
political structure of our society, do hereby order and decree:

SECTION 1. Section fifteen, paragraph (c) of Republic Act
Numbered Four Thousand three hundred seventy-four, as amended, is
further amended to read as follows:

“SEC. 15. x x x

“(c) To qualify in the Junior Geodetic Engineer Examination, lie
must, likewise, satisfy the foregoing requirements (a) to (c) of this
Section, and that he is a holder of the degree of Associate in
Surveying, or a holder of the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil
Engineering, or has completed third year in Geodetic Engineering or
Civil Engineering and has earned to his credit the following courses:
Laws on Natural Resources, Laws on Land Registration and Property, Land
Reform Laws, Land Property Surveys, Photogrammetry and Cartography from
any recognized school, college or university,”

SEC. 2. A certificate of registration as Junior Geodetic
Engineer shall authorize the holder thereof to execute land surveys or
phases thereof, subject to such conditions and limitations as may be
prescribed by the Board of Geodetic Engineers.

SEC. 3. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 13th day of November, in the year
of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-three.