Article 41p. 41

ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AND LAW OF PUBLIC OFFICERS TEXT AND RULES

SECTION

4.

Organizational

Structure .

—

The

Department shall be composed of:

(1) The Department Proper consisting of the Office of

the Secretary, the Offices of the Undersecretaries and

Assistant

Secretaries,

the

Internal

Audit

Service,

Monitoring and Information Service, Planning Service,

Comptrollership

and

Financial

Management

Service,

Legal Service, and the Administrative and Manpower

Management Service;

(2) The Bureau of Research and Standards, Bureau of

Design, Bureau of Construction, Bureau of Maintenance,

and Bureau of Equipment; and

(3)

The

Field

Offices,

consisting

of

fourteen

(14)

Regional Offices composed of Region I (Ilocos), Region II

(Cagayan Valley), Region III (Central Luzon), National

Capital Region, Region IV-A (Southern Tagalog Mainland

Provinces),

Region

IV-B

(Southern

Tagalog

Island

Provinces), Region V (Bicol), Region VI (Western Visayas),

Region VII (Central Visayas), Region VIII (Eastern Visayas),

Region IX (Western Mindanao), Region X (Northeastern

Mindanao), Region XI (Southern Mindanao), and Region

XII

(Central

Mindanao),

and

their

respective

District

Offices.

CHAPTER 2 Department Proper

SECTION 5. Office of the Secretary . — The Office of

the Secretary shall be composed of the Secretary and his

immediate staff.

SECTION 6. Undersecretaries . — The Secretary shall

be assisted by not more than five (5) Undersecretaries

who shall be appointed by the President upon the

recommendation

of

the

Secretary.

The

Secretary

is

hereby authorized to delineate and assign the respective

functional areas of responsibility of the Undersecretaries.

Such responsibility shall be with respect to the mandate

and objectives of the Department and no Undersecretary

shall be assigned primarily administrative responsibilities.

Within

his

functional

area

of

responsibility,

an

Undersecretary shall have the following functions:

(1) Advise and assist the Secretary in the formulation

and

implementation

of

Department

policies,

plans,

programs and projects;

(2) Supervise all the operational activities of the units

assigned to him, for which he is responsible to the

Secretary; and

(3) Perform such other duties and responsibilities as

may

be

assigned or delegated by the Secretary to

promote efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of

public services or as may be required by law.

SECTION 7. Assistant Secretaries . — The Secretary

shall also be assisted by six (6) Assistant Secretaries

appointed by the President of the Philippines upon the

recommendation

of

the

Secretary;

one

(1)

to

be

responsible for the Internal Audit Services; one (1) for the

Monitoring

and

Information

Service;

one (1) for the

Planning Service; one (1) for the Comptrollership and

Financial Management Service; one (1) for the Legal

Service; and one (1) for the Administrative and Manpower

Management Service.

CHAPTER 3 Department Services

SECTION 8. Internal Audit Service . — The Internal

Audit

Service

shall

conduct comprehensive audit of

various Department activities. Specifically, it shall have

the following functions:

(1) Advice the Secretary on all matters relating to

management control and operations audit;

(2)

Conduct

management

and

operations

performance audit of Department activities and units

and

determine

the

degree

of

compliance

with

established objectives, policies, methods and procedures,

government regulations, and contractual obligations of

the Department;

(3) Review and appraise systems and procedures,

organizational structure, assets management practices,

accounting and other records, reports and performance

standards (such as budgets and standard cost) of the

Department Proper, Bureaus and Regional Offices;

(4) Analyze and evaluate management deficiencies

and assist top management to solve the problems by

recommending realistic courses of action; and

(5)

Perform

such

other

related

duties

and

responsibilities as may be assigned or delegated by the

Secretary or as may be required by law.

SECTION 9. Monitoring and Information Service . —

The Monitoring and Information Service is hereby created

to provide the Secretary timely reports on the status of

various Department projects and activities; and develop

and

implement

information

programs

for

mass

dissemination

in

coordination

with

the

appropriate

government agencies. The Monitoring and Information

Service shall have the following functions:

(1) Advice the Secretary on all matters relating to

monitoring and public information;

(2) Develop and maintain a system for retrieving and

processing monitoring information on all projects and

activities of concern to the Secretary;

(3) Provide accurate and timely status and exception

reports to the Secretary;

(4) Generate monitoring reports for the President, the

Cabinet, or for any other purpose as required by the

Secretary;

(5) Develop and supervise the implementation of

communications

programs

to

have relevant policies,

programs and plans of the Department understood by

the public;

(6) Produce and supervise the dissemination of media

materials in line with the national government public

information programs;

(7) Coordinate with appropriate national government

agencies tasked with public information affairs; and

(8)

Perform

such

other

related

duties

and

responsibilities as may be assigned or delegated by the

Secretary or as may be required by law.

The existing Infrastructure Computer Center shall be

under the supervision of the Assistant Secretary for

Monitoring Information. It shall establish and maintain a

computerized data bank as a repository of statistics and

information on infrastructure operations. It shall also

provide computer service to the different offices of the

Department.

SECTION

10.

Planning

Service .

—

The

Planning

Service shall provide the Department with the capability

to undertake infrastructure development planning and

programming. For this purpose, it shall have the following

functions:

(1) Advice the Secretary on all matters relating to

infrastructure planning;

(2)

Formulate

strategies

and

priorities

for

infrastructure

development

consistent

with

national

development

objectives;

and

initiate

or

undertake,

coordinate

and

review

area

and

sector

surveys

for

development planning;

(3) Formulate long-range, medium-term and annual

development

plans

and

programs

for infrastructure,

especially highways, flood control and water resource

development systems, and other public works projects,

including phasing of implementation;

(4)

Identify

priority

packages

for

infrastructure

development,

especially

highways,

flood

control and

water resource development systems, and other public

works projects, undertake or supervise and evaluate the

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