Section 4Sec./Art. 4

Section 2 of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 4. Regulation of Schoo-Based Initiation Rites. Only initiation rites or practices that do not constitute hazing shall be allowed: Provided, That:

"(a) A written application to conduct initiation rites shall be made to the proper authorities of the school not later than seven (7) days prior to scheduled initiation date;

"(b) The written application shall indicate the place and date of the initiation rites and the names of the recruits, neophytes, or applicants to be initiated and the manner by which they will conduct the initiation rites;

"(d) The initiation rites shall not last more than three (3) days;

"(e) The application shall contain the names of the incumbent officers of the fraternity, sorority, or organization and any person or persons who will take charge in the conduct of the initiation rites;

"(f) The application shall be under oath with a declaration that it has been posted in the official school bulletin board, the bulletin board of the office of the fraternity, sorority, or organization, and two(2) other conspicuous places in the school or in the premises of the organization; and

"(g) The application shall be posted from the time of submission of the written notice to the school authorities or head of organization and shall only be removed from its posting three (3) days after the conduct of the initiation rites.

"The school, fraternity, sorority, or organization shall provide for their respective bulletin boards for purposes of this section.1wphi1

"Guidelines for the approval or denial of the application to conduct initiation rites by a registered fraternity, sorority, organization shall be promulgated by the appropriate school official not later than sixty (60) days after the approval of this Act. The appropriate school authorities shall have the obligation to disapproved the application to conduct initiation rites that do not conform with any of the requirements of this section, and in unequivocal terms in a formal advice to the fraternity sorority, or organization concerned, taking into consideration the safety and security of participants in the activity.

"School officials shall have the authority to impose after due notice and summary hearing, disciplinary sanctions, in accordance with the school's guidelines and regulations on the matter, which shall include, but shall not be limited to, reprimand, suspension, exclusion, or expulsion, to the head and all other officers of the fraternity, sorority and organization which conducts an initiation without first securing the necessary approval of the school as required under this section. All members of the fraternity, sorority, or organization, who participated in the unauthorized initiation rites, even if no hazing was conducted, shall also be punished accordingly.

"In case the written application for the conduct of initiation rites contains false or inaccurate information, appropriate disciplinary sanctions in accordance with the school's guidelines and regulations on the matter ranging from reprimand to expulsion shall be imposed, after due notice and summary hearing, against the person who prepared the application or supplied the false and inaccurate information and to the head and other officers of the fraternity, sorority, or organization concerned."