Section 9Sec./Art. 9

Powers and duties of the Board. - The Board shall exercise the following specific powers, functions and duties:

(a) To promulgate and adopt the rules and regulations necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act;

(b) To supervise the registration, licensure and practice of professional agricultural engineers in the Philippines;

(c) To administer oaths of successful examinees entering the practice of agricultural engineering;

(d) To issue the certificate of registration to successful examinees;

(e) To issue, suspend or revoke the license for the practice of agricultural engineering profession;

(f) To adopt an official seal of the Board;

(g) To look into the conditions affecting the practice of the agricultural engineering profession and whenever necessary, adopt such measures as may be deemed proper for the enhancement and maintenance of high professional and ethical standards of the profession;

(h) To prescribe and/or adopt a Code of Ethical and Professional Standards for the practice of agricultural engineering profession.

(i) To hear and try administrative cases involving violations of this Act, its implementing rules and regulations, the Code of Ethics for Professional Agricultural Engineers and for this purpose, to issue subpoena and subpoena duces tecum to secure the appearance of witnesses and the production of documents in connection therewith;

(j) Prescribe guidelines in the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) program in coordination with the accredited association for professional agricultural engineers;

(k) To insure, in coordination with the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), that all educational institutions offering agriculture engineering education comply with the policies, standards and requirements of the course prescribed by CHED in the areas of curriculum, faculty, library and facilities;

(l) To discharge such other duties and functions as may be deemed necessary for the enhancement of the agricultural engineering profession and the upgrading, development and growth of agricultural engineering education in the Philippines;

(m) To prepare, adopt, issue or amend the syllabi of the subjects for examinations;

(n) To approve, issue, limit or revoke temporary license to practice agricultural engineering.

All policies, resolutions, rules and regulations of the Board shall be subject to the review and approval of the Commission.