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PSAE Region IV - Agricultural Engineering Board Review Materials
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Agricultural Engineering Law, Professional Ethics, Engineering Contracts

and Specifications
Rossana Marie C. Amongo, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Agricultural Machinery Division
Institute of Agricultural Engineering
College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology
University of the Philippines Los Baos
College, Laguna
I. Origin and Development of Law
What are Laws?
Laws are rules of conduct of any organized society, however simple or small, that are
enforced by threat of punishment if they are violated. Modern law has a wide sweep
and regulates many branches of conduct. (Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press).
Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; whether
animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of
gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And
it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is
bound to obey." (Jones' Blackstone, Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1915)
Development of Early Law
No one can say for sure. The Bible says the first laws were established between God
and Adam when God told Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of knowledge. Most
people think this was a command that God laid down. They assume a sovereign
authority of God over his creation.
Law does not develop systematically until a state with a centralized police authority
has appeared. For this development a written language is not required, but
necessarily the earliest known legal codes are those of literate societies. Examples of
early law systems are to be found in the code of Hammurabi (Babylonia), the Laws of
Manu (India), and the Mosaic code (Palestine). These codes show what would seem to
be the universal tendency of the religious and ethical system of a society to produce
a legal order to enforce its ethical and social mandates.
Classification of Laws:
1.
2.
3.
Moral Law
- Divine Law
- Ecclesiastical Law
Natural or Scientific Law
Physical Sciences
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
Law of art and literature
- Music
- Painting
- Poetry
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5.
6.
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International Law
- Private International Law
- Law of Nations or Public International Law
Governmental Law
- Constitutional Law
- Statute Law
- Common Law
- Equity
Laws without government sanctions
- Laws of games
- Laws of private associations and societies
II. Agricultural Engineering Law

The first Agricultural Engineering Law was enacted by the Fifth Congress of the
Philippines in 1964 and was embodied in Republic Act 3927.
In 1998, Republic Act 8559 otherwise known as the Philippine Agricultural
Engineering Act of 1998 was enacted by the House of Representatives and the
Senate. RA 8559 is a consolidation of House Bill No. 10465 and Senate Bill No. 2393
and was finally passed and enacted into law on February 13, 1998.The law aims to
promote and upgrade the practice of the profession by instituting measures that will
result in relevant agricultural engineering education and better career prospects for
professional agricultural engineers.
The Rules and Regulations implementing RA 8559 were elaborated in Board
Resolution No. 01, Series of 1998 of the Philippine Regulation Commission published
in the Official Gazette: Vol. 94 Manila, Philippines, August 3, 1998. No. 35 pages 6087
to 6096.
Pursuant to Article XI of the implementing rules and regulations of RA 8559, the
Board of Agricultural Engineering shall adopt and promulgate Code of Ethics and
Professional Standards for Agricultural Engineers.
III. Code of Ethics
Ethics is a branch of philosophy that defines what is good for the individual and the
society and establishes the nature of obligations, or duties, that people owe
themselves and to one another. The word ethics is derived from the Greek word
ethos, which means "character," and from the Latin word mores, which means
"customs." In modern society, it defines how individuals, business professionals, and
corporations choose to interact with one another.
The code of ethics is a written system of standards for ethical conduct. Since 1906
the discussions of professional ethics have resulted into the various codes of
ethics adopted by many different societies. Although the Codes do not presume
to define all of the duties and obligations of an individual toward life, however, it
could express as far and as clearly as practicable the principles which should
govern the professional relations of an agricultural engineer to his client or
employer, to the other professionals, and to the public.
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The Agricultural Engineering Code of Ethics

(Adopted from the Board of Agricultural Engineering, Philippine Regulation
Commission)
Article 1. General Provisions
Registered Agricultural Engineers (RAEs) must adhere to a Code of Ethics and
Professional Standards, which provides for the maintenance of high standards and
competence and integrity. They must have a clear concept of, and the commitment
to their obligations, to their profession, to their clients or employers, to their
colleagues in the profession and to the public.
Section 1. Definition of Terms
Registered Agricultural Engineers is a natural person who has issued a certificate of
registration by the Board of Agricultural Engineering and has taken an oath of
profession of agricultural engineers.
Client- the person or entity, which retains an agricultural engineer that engaged in
the practice of agricultural engineering for the performance of professional
services.
Employer the person or entity that employs and agricultural engineer for the
rendition of agricultural engineering and related services.
Enterprise any person or entity whether organized for profit or not for which an
agricultural engineer renders professional services.
Firm a proprietorship or professional partnership of two or more agricultural
engineers or persons engaged in the practice of agricultural engineering,
including individual partners thereof.
Code a system of rules and regulations on any subject. It is an accepted way of
behavior, especially the mores of the society.
Competence the relevant knowledge and skills applied to the standards of
performance expected in the workplace, includes the capacity to apply skills and
knowledge to new task in a range of environments (Regional Model Competency
Program)
Integrity the condition of having no part or element wanting; unbroken state;
material wholeness; completeness entirety. Moral soundness, probity, wholeness,
completeness, honesty and sincerity to perform work in its entirety in the quality
or state of being unimpaired.
Obligation the action of binding oneself by oath, promise, or contract to do or
forebear something; a binding agreement which is enforceable by law, whereby a
person or persons become bound to payment of a sum of money or other
performance; a binding legal agreement or responsibility restricting power
inherent to such an agreement or responsibility.
Duties obligations of behavior or conduct in relation to others and to GOD who have
a stronger claim on a person than his self interest the work someone is expected
to do because of his vocation or profession.

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Ethics the moral system of a particular school of thought, relating to morality of

behavior. The rules of conduct recognized in certain department of human life
conforming to an accepted standard of good behavior in the performance of a
profession or trade.
Standards includes engineering practices, and the data adopted by the Philippine
Society of Agricultural Engineers (PSAE), Inc. and the Board of Agricultural
Engineering. A model to be followed or initiated established by custom and
consent, a degree of quality, level of achievement, etc. desirable and necessary
for some purposes.
Article II. Responsibility and duty of Registered Agricultural Engineer (RAE)
Section 1. Every person admitted to the practice of agricultural engineering in the
Philippines as RAE shall endeavor to discharge duties and responsibilities with fidelity
to the public, his employer and clients, and with fairness and impartiality to all.
Section 2. They should uphold the honor and dignity of their profession and also
avoid connection with any enterprise of questionable character.
Section 3. It is their prime duty to interest self in public welfare, and to be ready to
apply his technical knowledge for the benefit of mankind.
Section 4. In their dealings with fellow engineers, he should be fair and tolerant.
Article III. Professional Life of a Registered Agricultural Engineer (RAE)
Section 1. Registered Agricultural Engineer (RAE) should endeavor to make effective
the agricultural engineering profession by interchanging information and experience
with other engineers and students and by contributing to the work of agricultural
engineering societies, schools, and the scientific and engineering press.
Section 2. Registered Agricultural Engineer (RAE) should not advertise his work or
merit in self - laudatory manner and he should avoid any conduct or practice likely to
discredit and do injury to the dignity and honor of his profession.
Section 3. Registered Agricultural Engineer (RAE) shall strive to continuously update
and enhance their professional knowledge, skills and competitiveness through
rigorous research and study, active and meaningful participation in continuing
professional development programs, seminars, workshops and conventions
authorized by the National and/or Regional Chapters of the Philippine Society of
Agricultural Engineers (PSAE), Inc, an accredited professional organization (APO), or
educational institutions accredited and supervised by he State through the
Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
Article IV. Registered Agricultural Engineers (RAE) Relation with the Public
Section 1. Registered Agricultural Engineer should endeavor to disseminate public
knowledge of agricultural engineering, and discourage if not curb the spread of
untrue, unfair and exaggerated statements regarding agricultural engineering.
Section 2. Registered Agricultural Engineer should have direct responsibility for
safeguarding to the life and health of the public and employees who may be affected
by their work for which they are responsible.
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Section 3. Registered Agricultural Engineer may express only such opinions as are
founded on adequate knowledge and honest conviction when serving as a witness
before a court, commission, or tribunal.
Section 4. Registered Agricultural Engineer should not make ex-parte statements,
criticism, or opinions on matters connected with public policy which are inspired or
paid for the private interest, unless they indicates on whose behalf they are making
the statement.
Section 5. Registered Agricultural Engineer should refrain from expressing publicly
opinion on any agricultural engineering subjects unless well informed as to the facts
relating hereto.
Article V. Registered Agricultural Engineers Relation with Clients and Employers
Section 1. In professional matters, Registered Agricultural Engineers should act for
each of their clients or employers as faithful agent or trustee.
Section 2. Registered Agricultural Engineers should act with fairness and justice
between their clients or employers and the contractor when dealing in contracts.
Section 3. Registered Agricultural Engineers should make their positions clear to their
clients or employers before undertaking an engagement wherein they may be called
upon to decide on the use of inventions, apparatus, or any other thing in which they
have interest.
Section 4. Registered Agricultural Engineers should guard against conditions that are
dangerous or threatening to life, limb, or property on work for which they are
responsible, or if they are not responsible, should promptly bring such conditions to
the attention of those responsible therefore.
Section 5. Registered Agricultural Engineers should point out clearly the
consequences that might possibly arise if deviations from their agricultural
engineering work would be made or if their opinions thereon would be overruled by
non technical authority.
Section 6. Registered Agricultural Engineers may assist or advise their clients or
employers on matters pertaining to agricultural engineering and may cooperate with
other experts and specialists whenever their clients or employers interests will best
be served by such service.
Section 7. Registered Agricultural Engineers should disclose NO INFORMATION
concerning the business affairs or technical processes of clients or employerS without
their consent, unless in obedience to a lawful order of a court.
Article VI. Registered Agricultural Engineers Relations with Fellow Engineers
and Allied Profession
Section 1. Registered Agricultural Engineers should endeavor either individually or
collectively to protect and uphold the dignity, honor and prestige of the agricultural
engineering profession.
Section 2. Registered Agricultural Engineers should see to it that credit for
engineering work is given to those to whom credit is properly due.
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Section 3. Registered Agricultural Engineers should, in the public interest and to

maintain the standards of the profession, observe the principles of reasonable or
adequate compensation for those engaged in agricultural engineering work, including
those employed in subordinate capacities.
Section 4. Registered Agricultural Engineers should endeavor to create opportunity
for the professional development and advancement of engineers in their employ.
Section 5. Registered Agricultural Engineers should refrain from committing acts that
will injure or tend to injure the professional reputation, prospects, or practice with
their fellow engineers. However, if there are sufficient grounds to believe that
another engineer has committed unethical, illegal or unfair acts on the practice of
agricultural engineering profession, the former may bring the matter of the attention
of the Board of Agricultural Engineering or to the proper authorities for appropriate
action.
Section 6. Registered Agricultural Engineers should restrain from, if not avoid entirely
criticizing anothers work in public, bearing in mind the fact that the engineering
societies and engineering press provide the proper forum for technical discussions
and criticisms.
Section 7. Registered Agricultural Engineers should not take away from another
agricultural engineer a prospective employment after becoming aware that definite
steps have been taken by the latter toward its consumption.
Section 8. Registered Agricultural Engineers should not resort to unfair competition
by under bidding or reducing the usual fees after acquiring information as to the fees
offered by the other agricultural engineers from similar services.
Section 9. A Registered Agricultural Engineer should NOT USE advantage his salaried
position to compete unfairly with fellow engineers.
Section 10. Registered Agricultural Engineer should refrain from associating with
engineers who engage in unethical or illegal practices, and should refuse to share
responsibility for their work.
Article VII. Rules for Practice in Agricultural Engineering
A person, whether as an individual, as a member of a firm, or an officer, or employee
of a corporation partnership, cooperative etc. shall be deemed to be engaged in the
practice of agricultural engineering within the meaning and intent of Republic Act
No. 8559 and the Rules and Regulations implementing the same that were issued
there under, if:
Section 1. Registered Agricultural Engineers who advertises themselves or in any
other manner conveys, the impression to the public that they are skilled in the
knowledge, science and practice of agricultural engineering, and are qualified to
render professional service as a registered professional agricultural engineer for a fee
or other reward or compensation paid to them or to another in their behalf or even
without such fee, reward or compensation;
Section 2. Registered Agricultural Engineers who maintains a regular office for or in
behalf of their clients, with or without compensation, professional services in the
different areas of agricultural engineering , namely: agricultural machinery;
equipment and power units; agricultural buildings and structures, agricultural (rural)
electrification and energy; agricultural processing and food engineering; soil and
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water conservation; irrigation, drainage and water resources management;

agricultural waste disposal, utilization and environmental management; agricultural
information resources and technologies, agricultural instrumentation and control
systems; fishery and aquaculture resources engineering and forest product resources
angineering.
Section 3. Registered Agricultural Engineers who prepare, sign, or certify as correct
for their clients or employers, agricultural engineering reports bids specifications,
invoices, patents, copyrights and other documents which require the services of a
registered agricultural engineers.
Section 4. Registered Agricultural Engineers who prepare or sign any statement on
agricultural engineering matters which are intended to be used for obtaining or
soliciting any loan or credit.
Article VIII. Amendments
The code or any part thereof may be amended as needed and in response to the
advancement of science and technology by the Board of Agricultural Engineering in
consultation with the Philippine Society of Agricultural Engineers. In such
amendments shall become effective after 15 days following the completion of its
publication in the Official Gazette or in any newspaper of general circulation.
Article IX. Penalty Provision
Section 1. Violation of any of the provision of this code which causes damage or
injury to another shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand pesos
(P 5,000.00) or imprisonment of not more than two months, or both in the discretion
of the court.
IV. The Philippine Agricultural Engineering Standards (PAES)
The Board of Agricultural Engineering in collaboration with the Philippine Society of
Agricultural Engineers and other government agencies adopted and promulgated the
Code of Technical Standards of Agricultural Engineering known as the Philippine
Agricultural Engineering Standards (PAES). It contains among others, the standard
design and test procedures, materials and process specification of agricultural,
aquaculture and fishery machinery, structures, processes and other agricultural
engineering system. PAES serves as reference of the agricultural engineer in the
practice of his profession.
The development of Agricultural Engineering Standards was spearheaded by the
Agricultural Machinery Testing and Evaluation Center of the College of Engineering
and Agro-industrial Technology, University of the Philippines Los Baos. To date, there
are 120 Agricultural Engineering Standards approved and adopted by the agricultural
engineering profession as shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Summary of the Philippine Agricultural Engineering Standards (PAES)
developed, approved and adopted by Agricultural Engineering Profession.
Standards
General
Production
Machinery
PAES I
PAES II
15
PAES III
7
PAES IV
10
PAES V
3
6

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Total
3
46

Post Harvest
Machinery
Engineering
Materials
Agricultural
Structures
Total
11
11
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30
20
10
21
35
25
22
21
17

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V. Engineering Contracts and Specifications

A contract is a binding agreement that the courts will enforce. All contracts are
agreements but not all agreements are contracts. Agreements often impose merely a
social or moral obligation hence they are not legally enforceable by law.
In a day to day situation, almost all business transactions are expressed in a contract.
It is usually an agreement between two or more parties for certain work to be
performed or refrained which has enforceable legal effect. A contract is necessary
because it defines the commitment of each party involved in any transaction. It
establishes the rights and obligations of both parties and served as a basis for pricing
the work to be done. It also defines the completion criteria which has been agreed by
the parties involved. Contracts serve also as basis of settlement for any future
disputes between the parties involved.
According to Mead et al, 1956, contracts can be classified into six major categories as
follows:
1. As to origin
- Express contract
- Implied contract
- Quasi contract
2. As to obligation status
- Bilateral contract
- Unilateral contract
3. As to participants
- Two-party contract
- Joint contract
- Several contract
- Joint and Several contract
- Third party beneficiary contract
4. . As to form
- Contract under seal
- Contract of record
- Simple or parol contract
5. As to legal status
- Valid contract
- Void contract
- Voidable contract
- Unenforceable contract
6. As to completion status
- Executory contract
- Executed contract
There are essential elements to be considered in a contract. First, it must have two or
more contracting parties. A mutual agreement must be arrived at for both the
contracting parties which they fully understand and capable of performing. Moreover,
there must be a valuable consideration for each of the parties involved and they
must be treated equally. The obligations which the parties involved in the contract
must be of legal acts which are not contrary to public policies. Lastly, the contract
must be set forth based on form and manner of execution prescribed by laws.
For a contract to take place, there must be two or more parties involved, all of whom
are legally competent to enter into a contractual relations or must possess a
contractual capacity. A partys competency may be questioned if it falls into any of
the following classifications:
1. Infants
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2. Persons of unsound minds

3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Drunken persons
Persons under legal guardianship
Corporations
Convicts
Enemy aliens
Foreign countries and their Sovereigns
Professional persons who are required by law to register and to be licensed
VI. Technical Specifications

Technical specifications are detailed, exact statement of particulars, especially a
statement describing materials, dimensions, and quality of work for something to
be built, installed, or manufactured. It covers almost any phase of industrial
activity hence it must be comprehensive and well prepared. Technical
specifications are used to convey the nature of: 1) machinery,
2) supplies of material to be furnished, and
3) work to be done in a contract.
Technical specifications are tools where the engineer shows:
- how clearly and exactly s/he can describe the essential and practicable limits of
the qualities of work and material needed
- how fair and just s/he will be in treating contractors
- how well s/he can protect the owner
In the preparation of technical specifications, it is essential that the engineer should
possess a comprehensive and detail knowledge of:
1. The qualities and characteristics of the various materials to be used and the
practicable limits to which the qualities unnecessary for the work in question
should be restricted.
2. The usual and practicable methods of performing the work to be done in such
manner that it will be completed without unnecessary expense and be
satisfactory for the purpose which it is to fulfill.
3. The methods ordinarily employed by the mechanics or operatives in the
manufacture of the product or machine and in the construction and operation
or maintenance of the plant or structure.
Aside from the knowledge, the engineer must possess the ability to designate in
detail the composition or elements of the material or processes and the methods to
be used for their proper production and utilization or the ability to design in detail the
structure, machine, or plant contemplated. He must also have the experience which
will foresee the necessary materials and methods to be employed, difficulties to be
overcome, and contingencies to be met in performing the work.
As the design becomes more elaborate and the individual parts of a structure
become more numerous or complicated, it becomes more and more essential that
the materials and method of construction of each part shall be described in detail: for
with increased complications in design, greater uncertainties arise as to the materials
and methods of construction which must be used.

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The specifications are intended to fix these details beyond question and to confine
the character of the materials, workmanship, and design with necessary limits. The
preparation of such specifications requires an extensive technical knowledge of:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
materials
processes
designs
construction
cost
The responsibility of the Agricultural Engineer
The more general the specifications, the greater responsibility of the engineer.
As details defined by the specifications, moral & legal responsibility is
decreased.
Standard tests are undertaken to guarantee and lessen the responsibility of
the engineer.
Engineering Drawing and Specifications

It is a technical drawing, that defines fully and clearly the requirements for
engineered items It is usually created in accordance with standardized conventions
for layout, nomenclature, interpretation, appearance (such as typefaces and line
styles), size, etc. In the olden times, it is often referred to as "blueprints" or
"bluelines" (printing process that yielded graphics on blue-colored paper or,
alternatively, of blue-lines on white paper but have been superseded by more
modern reproduction processes that yield black or multicolor lines on white paper).
The process of producing engineering drawings, and the skill of producing them, is
often referred to as technical drawing.
It is important that you follow some simple rules when producing an engineering drawing
which although may not be useful now, will be useful when working in industry.
All engineering drawings should feature an information box. An example is shown below.
Common information recorded on an engineering drawing

Title
The title of the drawing.
Name

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The name of the person who produced the drawing. This is important for
quality control so that problems with the drawing can be traced back to their
origin.
Checked by
In many engineering firms, drawings are checked by a second person before
they are sent to manufacture, so that any potential problems can be
identified early.
Version
Many drawings will get amended over the period of the parts life. Giving
each drawing a version number helps people identify if they are using the
most recent version of the drawing.
Date
The date the drawing was created or amended on.
Scale
The scale of the drawing. Large parts won't fit on paper so the scale
provides a quick guide to the final size of the product.
Projection System
The projection system used to create the drawing should be identified to
help people read the drawing. (Projection systems will be covered later).
Company Name
Many CAD drawings may be distributed outside the company so the
company name is usually added to identify the source.
Writing Specifications
Engineers need to understand the legal and commercial context in

which they draw up technical specifications. The written engineering
specification should avoid legal disputes or the confusion and time
wasting caused by poor drafting. There are two major concerns in
writing specifications: fairness and clearness or clarity
FAIRNESS
To achieve Fairness, one should avoid the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Indefinite Specifications
Intermediate Specifications
Ambiguous/ unnecessary Specifications
Arbitrary Specifications
Unfair Specifications
CLEARNESS
Clear specification is necessary to ensure that

the engineer will inform the contractor well
enough so as to produce the product you need.
Clear Specification and statements of work for
public contracts must be clear for fairness to all
the bidders.

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Vaguely written specifications will give bidders who have access inside
information an unfair advantage over competitors who may be
perfectly capable of doing the work, but lack knowledge about some of
the details.
To achieve Clearness/Clarity the engineer should:
1. Use effective and correct English
2. Avoid the use of brevity or wordiness. Use short and simple sentences that would
describe the work to be done.
3. Avoid the use of ellipsis (short forms of words/ abbreviations/acronyms) which is
not familiar with the end users.
4. Avoid the use of totality language or words like: "all," "always," "never," "every,"
and "none," which may create logical error. Conflicting requirements often result
from totality statements.
5. Avoid the use of slash marks / in engineering specifications. Properly called a
"virgule", slash mark is used between two words to show that the appropriate one
may be chosen to complete the sense of the text.
6. Proper usage of verb tenses and auxiliary verb
Specifications always state requirements in the future tense using the emphatic
form "shall." The weaker auxiliary verbs "will," "should" and "may" do not express
a requirement. Specifications containing the word "shall," are usually included in
the database of requirements.
7. Avoid the use of modifiers that apply to two or more nouns
8. Write specifications in the third person form.
Some consequences of unclear and unfair specifications

1.
2.
3.
may hamper intelligent bidding

may add materially to the cost
may involve a confession which is an embarrassment
to the engineer

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REFERENCES:
Republic Act No. 8559- The Philippine Agricultural Engineering Act of 1998 with
implementing rules and regulations and Code of Ethics for Agricultural Engineers.
Mead, Mead, Akerman. 1978. Contracts, Specifications and Engineering Relations.
McGraw-Hill Inc. Reprinted in the Philippines by Merriam & Webster Bookstore,
Inc. Manila, Philippines.
AENG 90 (Agricultural Engineering Law, Specifications & Contracts and Ethics) Lecture
Notes. RCAmongo. 1st Semester 2006-2007. AMD, IAE, UP Los Banos.
(Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press)
Jones' Blackstone, Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1915)
Resurreccion, A. N. 2001. The Philippine Agricultural Engineering Standards (PAES).
Agricultural Machinery Evaluation & Testing Center, UP Los Banos.

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Republic of the Philippines

Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila
Tenth Congress
Fourth Special Session
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Wednesday, the eleventh day of February,
Nineteen hundred and ninety-eight
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8559
AN ACT REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF
AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING IN THE PHILIPPINES
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives
of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
ARTICLE I
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF POLICY
SECTION 1. Title - This Act shall be known as the Philippine Agricultural
Engineering Act of 1998.
SEC. 2. Statement of Policy - It is hereby declared a policy of the State to
promote and upgrade the practice of agricultural engineering profession in the
Philippines by instituting measures that will result in relevant agricultural engineering
education and better career prospects for professional agricultural engineers.
Likewise, the State hereby guarantees the delivery of basic and technical
services to accelerate agricultural modernization through adequate and well-trained
professional agricultural engineers throughout the country.
ARTICLE II
DEFINITION OF TERMS
SEC. 3.
Definition of Terms - As used in this Act, the following terms shall
mean:
(a)
Practice of agricultural engineering shall refer to the profession

requiring the application of the fundamental and known principles of
engineering to the peculiar condition and requirements of agriculture as
an industry and as a field of science, and shall include, but not limited to
the following:

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1)
Consultation, evaluation, investigation and management services on

agricultural engineering;
2)
Management or supervision and the preparation of engineering

designs, plans, specifications, project studies and estimates for
agricultural, aquaculture and fishery, and forest product machinery,
agricultural buildings and agricultural processing equipment,
irrigation and soil conservation systems and facilities, agricultural
waste utilization systems and facilities;
3)
Conducting research and development, training and extension work,

and consultancy services on agricultural engineering facilities/
services, system and facilities;
4)
Testing, evaluation and inspection of agricultural, fishery and forest

product machinery and other related agricultural engineering
facilities and equipment;
5)
Management, manufacturing and/ or marketing of agricultural

machinery and other related agricultural engineering facilities and
equipment;
6)
Teaching, agricultural engineering subjects in institution of learning in

the Philippines;
7)
Employment with the government provided such item or position

requires the knowledge and expertise of an agricultural engineer.
(b) Agricultural engineer - An agricultural engineer is natural person who has

been issued a certificate of registration by the Board of Agricultural
Engineering and has taken the oath of profession of agricultural
engineers.
ARTICLE III
BOARD OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
SEC. 4.
Creation and Composition of the Board - There is hereby
created a Board of Agricultural Engineering, hereinafter called the Board, to be
composed of a chairman and two (2) members to be appointed by the President of
the Philippines from a list of three (3) recommendees for each position, chosen and
ranked in the order of preference and submitted by the duly accredited association of
agricultural engineers in the Philippines.
The Board shall be organized not later than six (6) months from the effectivity
of this Act.
SEC. 5.
Qualifications of Members of the Board - A member of the
Board shall, at the time of their appointment, possess the following qualifications:
(a) Must be a natural-born citizen and resident of the Philippines;
(b) Must be at least thirty-five years of age;

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(c) Must be a holder of Bachelors Degree in Agricultural Engineering or its

equivalent, conferred by a school, academy, college or university in the
Philippines or abroad that is accredited by the Commission on Higher
Education (CHED);
(d) A registered agricultural engineer with a valid professional license and an
active practitioner for not less than ten (10) years prior to his
appointment;
(e) Must not, for a period of three (3) consecutive years prior to the
appointment, be a member of the faculty of, directly or indirectly, in any
school, academy, institute, college or university where a regular course in
agricultural engineering is being taught, nor have any pecuniary interest
in or administrative supervision over any such institutions of learning;
(f)
Must not, for a period of three (3) consecutive years prior to the
appointment, be connected with a review center or any group or
association where review classes or lectures in preparation for the
licensure examination are offered or conducted at the time of
appointment; and
(g) Has never been convicted of any offense involving moral turpitude.
SEC. 6. Term of Office - The members of the Board shall hold office for a
term of three (3) years and until their successors shall have been appointed and
qualified. Of the members first appointed under this Act, one (1) member shall be
appointed and hold office for three (3) years; one (1) member for two (2) years; and
one (1) member for one (1) year.
The chairman or a member of the Board may be reappointed for another term
but in no case shall he serve continuously for more than six (6) years. Each member
of the Board shall qualify by taking the proper oath of office prior to entering upon
the performance of duty.
SEC. 7.
Compensation and allowances of the Board - The chairman
and members of the Board shall receive compensation and allowances being
received by the chairmen and members of existing regulatory boards with the
Professional Regulation Commission, hereinafter referred to as the Commission as
provided for the General Appropriations Act.
SEC. 8.
Vacancy and Removal of Board Members - Any vacancy
occurring in the Board within the term of a member shall be filled for the unexpired
portion of the term only.
The President may remove any member of the Board on the following
grounds:
(a) Neglect of duty;
(b) Violation or tolerance of the violation of this Act or the Code of
Ethics for agricultural engineering;
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The member concerned shall be given due notice and hearing where his right to
be heard and to defend himself, assisted by counsel, shall be respected in the
proper administrative investigation.
SEC. 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

(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 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 witness 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 agricultural 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;

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To approve, issue, limit or revoke temporary license to practice

agricultural engineering.
All policies, resolutions, rules and regulations of the Board shall be subjected to
the review and approval of the Commission.
SEC. 10.
Supervision of the Board, Custodian of its Records,
Secretariat and Support Services - The Board shall be under the administrative
supervision of the Commission. All records of the Board, including applications for
examination, examination papers and results, minutes of deliberation, administrative
cases and other investigations involving agricultural engineers shall be kept by the
Commission.
The Commission shall designate the Secretary of the Board and shall provide
the secretariat and other support services to implement the provisions of this Act.
SEC. 11. Annual Report - The Board shall, at the close of each calendar
year, submit an annual report to the President through the Professional Regulation
Commission giving a detailed account of its proceedings and accomplishments during
the year and making
recommendations for the adoption of measures that will upgrade and improve the
conditions affecting the practice of agricultural engineering in the Philippines.
ARTICLE IV
EXAMINATION, REGISTRATION AND LICENSE
SEC. 12.
Examination Required - All applicants for registration for the
practice of agricultural engineering shall be required to undergo and pass a written
technical examination as provided for in this Act.
SEC. 13.
Qualification of an Applicant for Examinations - Every
applicant for the examination for agricultural engineers shall establish the following:
(a) Be a citizen of the Philippines;
(b) Be a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering or its
equivalent in a school, academy, institute, college or university duly
recognized by the CHED.
SEC. 14. Fraudulent Application - The Board may suspend or revoke any
certificate of registration obtained through misrepresentation made in the application
for examination.
SEC. 15.
Scope of Examination - The examination for agricultural
engineering shall basically cover the following subjects:
(1) Agricultural mechanization, power, machinery and equipment;
(2) Soil and water conservation, irrigation and drainage; and
(3) Rural electrification, agricultural processing and agricultural structures.
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The said subjects and their syllabi may be amended by the Board so as to
conform to technological changes brought about by continuing trends in the
profession.
SEC. 16. Rating in the Board Examinations - To be qualified as having
passed the Board examination for agricultural engineers, a candidate must obtain a
weighted general average of seventy percent (70%), with no grades lower than fiftyfive percent (55%) in any given subject. However, an examinee who obtains a
weighted general average rating of seventy percent (70%) or higher but obtains a
rating below fiftyfive percent (55%) in any given subject must take the examination
in the subject or subjects where he obtained a grade below fiftyfive percent (55%).
SEC. 17. Report of Ratings - The Board shall submit to the Commission
the ratings obtained by each candidate within twenty (20) days after the
examination, unless extended for just cause. Upon the release of the results of the
examination, the Board shall send by mail the rating received by each examinee at
his given address using the mailing envelope submitted during the examination.
SEC. 18. Reexamination - An applicant who fails to pass the examination
for the third time shall be allowed to take another examination only after the lapse of
one (1) year.
SEC. 19.
Oath - All successful candidates in the examination shall be
required to take their oath before the Board or any government official authorized to
administer oaths, prior to entering upon the practice of the agricultural engineering
profession.
SEC. 20
Certificate of Registration and Professional License - A
certificate of registration shall be issued to applicants who pass the examination for
agricultural engineers subject to payment of registration fees.
The certificate of registration of a professional agricultural engineer shall bear the
signatures of the chairman of the Board and the chairman of the Professional
Regulation Commission and stamped with the official seal of the Board indicating
that the person named therein is a registered agricultural engineer.
A professional license bearing the registration number, date of issue, expiry date,
and duly signed by the chairman of the Board, shall likewise be issued to every
registrant upon payment of the professional fee. No person shall practice
agricultural engineering in this country unless such person has secured a license
to practice agricultural engineering in the manner herein provided. A licensee is
entitled to practice the profession with all the privileges appurtenant thereto until
the expiration of the validity of his license.
SEC. 21.
Seal and Use of Seal -
(a) Each registrant shall, upon registration, obtain the seal of such design as
the Board of Agricultural Engineering may adopt. Plans and specifications
prepared by or under the direct supervision of a registered agricultural
engineer, shall be stamped with the said seal during the validity of the
professional license. No person shall stamp or seal any document with the
seal of registrant after his professional license has expired or lost its
validity unless he has been reinstated to the practice and/ or unless his
license has been renewed.
(b) No officer or employee of the government, chartered cities, provinces and
municipalities now or hereafter charged with the enforcement of laws,
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ordinances or regulations relating to the construction or alteration of

agricultural structures, machineries and equipment, processes and
system shall accept or endorse any plans or specifications which have not
been prepared and submitted in full accord with the provisions of this Act,
nor shall payment be approved by any such officer for any work, the
plans and specifications of which have not been so prepared, signed and
sealed by a duly registered agricultural engineer.
(c) No agricultural engineer shall sign his name, affix his seal or use any
other method of signature of plans, specifications or other documents
made or under another agricultural engineers supervision unless the
same is made in such manner as to clearly indicate the part of such work
actually performed by him, and no person, except the agricultural
engineer in charge shall sign for any branch of the work or any function of
agricultural engineering practice not actually performed by him. The
agricultural engineer in charge shall be fully responsible for all plans,
specifications and other documents issued under his seal or authorized
signature.
(d) Drawings and specifications duly signed, stamped or sealed as
instruments of service are the property and documents of the agricultural
engineer, whether the projects for which they were made is executed or
not. No person without the written consent of the agricultural engineer or
author of said documents, shall duplicate or make copies of said
documents for use in the repetition of and for other projects or building,
whether executed partly or in whole.
(e) All drawings, specifications and other documents to be used for the
design, construction, test and evaluation of agricultural structures,
machineries, equipment, processes and systems shall be signed and
sealed by a licensed agricultural engineer.
Violation of any of the foregoing shall be ground for administrative and/ or
criminal action.
SEC. 22.
Indication of License and Professional Tax Receipt - The
agricultural engineer shall be required to indicate his Professional License
Number, the duration of validity, including the professional tax receipt number on
the documents he signs, uses or issues in connection with the practice of his
profession.
SEC. 23.
Grounds for Suspension and Revocation of License,
Cancellation of Temporary/ Special Permit - The Board shall have the power,
upon due notice and hearing, to revoke or suspend the license of an agricultural
engineer, or to cancel a temporary/ special permit for any cause specified in the
preceding sections, including, but not limited to, the use or perpetuation of any
fraud or deceit in obtaining a certificate of registration or for incompetence,
negligence or for abetting the illegal practice of agricultural engineering; violation
of the provisions of this Act, its implementing rules and regulations and/ or
violations of the policies of the Board including the Code of Ethics and
Professional Standards for agricultural engineers: Provided, however that such
action of the Board shall be subject to appeal to the Commission within fifteen
(15) days from written notice.
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ARTICLE V
PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
SEC. 24.
Vested Rights: Automatic Registration of Practicing
Agricultural Engineers
- All practicing agricultural engineers who are
registered at the time this Act takes effect, shall automatically be registered.
SEC. 25. Practice Not Allowed for Firms and Corporations - The practice
of agricultural engineering is a professional service, admission to which shall be
determined upon the basis of an individuals personal qualifications.
No firm, company, partnership, association or corporation may be registered or
licensed as such for the practice of agricultural engineering. Provided however,
that persons properly registered and licensed as agricultural engineer may among
themselves or with a person or persons properly registered and licensed as an
agricultural engineer may form or obtain registration with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) of a firm, partnership or association using the term
Agricultural Engineers, but nobody shall be a member, partner or associate
unless he is duly registered and licensed agricultural engineer.
SEC. 26.
Integration of Agricultural Engineers
- The agricultural
engineering profession shall be integrated into one (1) national organization
which shall be recognized by
the Board and by the Commission as the one and only integrated and accredited
association of agricultural engineers. An agricultural engineer duly registered with
the Board shall automatically become a member of the integrated and accredited
association of agricultural engineers, and shall receive the benefits and privileges
appurtenant thereto upon payment of the required fees and dues. Membership in
the integrated and accredited association shall not be a bar membership in other
associations of agricultural engineers.
SEC. 27.
Foreign Reciprocity - No foreign agricultural engineer shall be
issued a temporary license to practice the agricultural engineering profession or
consultancy thereof or be entitled to any of the rights and privileges under this
Act unless the country of which he is a subject or citizen specifically permits
Filipino agricultural engineers to practice within its territorial limits on the same
basis as the subjects or citizens of such foreign state or country.
SEC. 28. Funding - Such sums as may be necessary to carry out provisions of
this Act shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following
its enactment into law.
SEC. 29. Implementing Rules and Regulations - Subject to the approval of
the Commission, the Board shall adopt and promulgate such rules and
regulations, including the Code of Ethics and Professional Standards for
Agricultural Engineers, to carry out the provisions of this Act, which shall be
effective after thirty (30) days following its publication in the Official Gazette or in
a major daily newspaper of general circulation.
SEC. 30. Enforcement - The Professional Regulation Commission shall be the
enforcement agency of the Board. As such the Commission shall implement the
concerned provisions of this Act, enforce its implementing rules and regulations
as adopted by the Board, conduct investigations on complaints including
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violations of the Code of Ethics and Professional Standards of the profession and
persecute when so warranted.
SEC. 31.
Transitory Provision
- The existing Board of agricultural
engineering shall continue to function in the interim until such time the new
Board shall be constituted pursuant to this Act.
SEC. 32. Penalties - In addition to the administrative sanctions imposed under
this Act, any person who violates any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon
conviction, be penalized by a fine not less than fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00)
nor more than two hundred thousand pesos (P200,000.00), or imprisonment of
not less than six (6) months nor more than three (3) years, or both fine and
imprisonment at the discretion of the court.
SEC. 33.
Separability Clause - If any clause, provision, paragraph or part
hereof shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid, such judgement shall not
effect, invalidate or impair any other part hereof; but such judgement shall be
merely confined to the clause, provision, paragraph or part directly involved in
the controversy in which such judgement has been rendered.
SEC. 34.
Repealing Clause - All laws, decrees, executive orders and other
administrative issuances and parts and parts thereof which are consistent with
the provisions of this Act are hereby modified or superseded. Republic Act. No.
3927 is hereby repealed.
SEC. 35. Effectivity - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days following its
publication in the Official Gazette or in a major daily newspaper of general
circulation in the Philippines, whichever comes first.
Approved:
(Sgd.) Neptali A. Gonzales

President of the Senate
(Sgd.) Jose De Venecia Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives
This act which is a consolidation of House Bill No. 10465 and Senate Bill No. 2393
was finally passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on February
13, 1998.
(Sgd.) Hezel P. Gacutan
Secretary of the Senate
(Sgd.) Roberto P. Nazareno
Secretary General
House of Representatives
Approved: February 26, 1998
(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS
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President of the Philippines

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Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila
BOARD OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
Resolution No. 01
Series of 1998
RULES AND REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTING
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8559
Pursuant to Section 29, Article V of Republic Act No. 8559, otherwise known as the
Philippine Agricultural Engineering Act of 1998, the following rules and
regulations is hereby adopted and promulgated to carry out the provisions of the
Act.
ARTICLE I
TITLE, PURPOSES AND DEFINITION OF TERMS
SECTION 1. Title. This Resolution shall be known and cited as the Rules and
Regulations Implementing the Philippine Agricultural Engineering Act of 1998.
SEC. 2. Purpose. This Rules and Regulations is formulated and adopted to
prescribe the procedures in carrying out the provisions of R.A. No. 8559 and:
a.
To ensure an efficient administration of and a reliable and honest

licensure examination for the registration of agricultural engineers;
b.
To effectively supervise and regulate the practice of the agricultural

engineering profession and;
c.
To ensure, in coordination with the Commission on Higher Education

(CHED), that all institutions offering agricultural engineering education
comply with the policies, standards and requirements of the course
prescribed by the CHED in the areas of curriculum, faculty, library and
facilities.
SEC. 3. Definition of Terms. Unless otherwise provided, the following terms

shall mean:
a. Commission shall mean the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)
created under P.D. No. 223, as amended
b. Commissioner shall mean Chairman of the Professional Regulation
Commission
c.
Board shall mean the Board of Agricultural Engineers
d. Practice of Agricultural Engineering shall refer to the application of the

fundamental and known principles of engineering to the peculiar condition
and requirements of agriculture as an industry and as a field of science
and shall include, but not limited to the following:
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1.
Consultation, evaluation, investigation, and management services on

2.
Preparation of engineering designs, plans, specifications, project

studies and estimates, and the supervision and other management
services on the construction, installation, operation and maintenance
of agricultural, aquaculture and fishery, and forest product machinery,
agricultural buildings and structures, farm electrification and energy
systems, agricultural processing equipment, irrigation and soil
conservation systems and facilities, agricultural waste utilization
system and facilities and other agricultural engineering facilities/
services, systems and technologies;
3.
Conducting research and development, training and extension work,

consultancy services on agricultural engineering facilities/ services,
system and technologies;
4.
Testing, evaluation and inspection of agricultural, fishery and forest

product machinery and other related agricultural engineering facilities
and equipment;
5.
Management, manufacturing and/ or marketing of agricultural

machinery and other related agricultural engineering facilities,
equipment, services, systems and technologies;
6.
Teaching agricultural engineering subjects in institutions of learning in

the Philippines accredited by the Commission on Higher Education
7.
Employment with the government provided such item or position

requires the knowledge and expertise of an agricultural engineer. Such
item or position may include but not limited to Science Research
Specialist, Planning Officer, Project Development Officer, Manager and
Director in accordance with the prescribed qualification standards.
e. Agricultural Engineer License shall refer to the professional license

issued by the Commission
f.
Certificate of Registration shall refer to the certificate issued by the

Board after passing the required examination and upon completion of all
requirement prescribed by the said Board
g. Syllabus shall refer to a table of specification containing the contents,

systematically arranged by topics and subtopics, of the subjects in the
curriculum of the course to be covered in the Licensure Examination for
Agricultural Engineers
h. Licensure Examination for Agricultural Engineers shall refer to the
examination required to be taken and passed for registration as
Agricultural Engineer
i.
Integration shall mean the unification or consolidation of existing

organizations of Agricultural Engineers into one national organization
which shall be recognized by the Board and the Commission as the only
integrated and accredited association of Agricultural Engineers

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Agricultural Engineer shall refer to a natural person who has been issued
a certificate of registration by the Board of Agricultural Engineers and has
taken the oath of profession of Agricultural Engineers
k. Agricultural Engineering Facilities, Services, System and Technologies

shall refer to:
(1) agricultural machinery, equipment and power units; (2) agricultural
buildings and structures;
(3) agricultural electrification and energy; (4)
agricultural processing and food engineering; (5) soil and water
conservation; (6) irrigation and drainage and water resources
management; (7) agricultural waste disposal and utilization, and
environmental management; (8) agricultural information resources and
technology; (9) agricultural instrumentation and control; (10) fishery and
aquacultural resources engineering and (11) forest product resource
engineering
l.
Agricultural Machinery Equipment and Power Units shall consist of all

farm power and equipment for the production, processing, storage,
manufacturing, preserving, transporting and distribution of agricultural,
fishery, aquaculture and forestry products. It includes tractor and their
attachment, power tillers, seeders, transplanters, windmill, slaughtering
equipment, meat processing equipment, fishery and aquaculture and
forest processing equipment, post-harvest machines such as milling
machine, dryer, thresher, etc., and agricultural transport machinery
m. Agricultural Buildings and Structures shall include silos and its

components, agricultural machinery and equipment sheds, farm houses,
green/ screen houses, poultry houses, piggery houses, slaughterhouses,
farm to market roads, farm bridges, agricultural products storage/
warehouse, buildings and structures for poultry, livestock and fishery
production and processing, agricultural processing, kiln drying and lumber
treatment structure, farm equipment, farm supplies and other structures
such as self feeders, and soil and water conservation structures
n. Agricultural Electrification and Energy shall embrace the design and
installation of electric system for agriculture, conservation equipment,
micro-hydro-electric generators and motors for power on the farm, village
level power plant including the development and operation of
conventional and nonconventional energy equipment and facilities for
agricultural purposes
o. Agricultural Processing and Food Engineering shall include local activity
or series of activities to maintain or raise the quality or change the form or
characteristics of agricultural, fishery and forestry products. It also
includes cleaning, sorting, grading, treating, drying, dehydrating, grinding,
mixing, milling, canning, dressing, slaughtering, freezing, pasteurizing,
conditioning, packaging, repacking, transporting, etc., of agricultural,
fishery and forestry products
p. Soil and Water Conservation shall consist of management practices for
small farm reservoir, farm ponds, small water impoundment to include
contour farming; terracing; use of erosion control structures; land
conditioning, mulching, flood control, agricultural planning and surveying
and agricultural meteorology

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q. Irrigation and Drainage and Water Resources Management shall include

the design, construction, installation, operation and maintenance of
irrigation and agricultural drainage systems, drip, sprinkler and other
pressurized irrigation system; hydro-meteorology; surface and ground
water resource management, irrigation structures and facilities such as
dams, weirs, pump systems, conveyances, canals and flumes
r.
Agricultural Waste Disposal, Utilization and Environmental Management

shall consist of the development of systems, processes and equipment for
agricultural waste disposal and utilization and environment-friendly
technologies such as compost plant, biogas plant, biomass utilization
technologies, systems and processes
s.
Agricultural Information Resources and Technologies shall include

utilization of agricultural information systems, databases and other
information management tools for agricultural use, and the application of
computers to agriculture
t.
Agricultural Instrumentation and Control shall include measuring

instruments and control system for agricultural applications such as
moisture meters, weighing scale, other meteorology equipment and the
like
u. Fishery and Aquaculture Resource Engineering shall involve the design,

construction, installation, operation, maintenance and management of
machinery, equipment and facilities for fishery and aquaculture
production, processing, transporting and marketing such as fish ponds,
fish pens/ cages, aerators, fish handling equipment and machinery and
fish storage
v.
Forest Products Resources Engineering shall involve the design,

construction, installation, operation, maintenance of systems and facilities,
machinery and equipment for forest product and by-products processing,
transporting and marketing.
ARTICLE II
OFFICIAL SEAL OF THE BOARD
SEC. 4.
Official Seal of the Board The Board shall adopt its official seal.
ARTICLE III
COMPOSITION AND MEETINGS OF THE BOARD
SEC. 5. Composition. The Board of Agricultural Engineering shall be

composed of a Chairman and two (2) members who shall be appointed by the
President of the Philippines from the list of three (3) recommendees for each
position chosen by the Commission from the list of nominees selected and
submitted by the integrated and accredited association of agricultural engineers.
SEC. 6. Term of Office. The members of the Board shall hold office for a term
of three (3) years and until their successors shall have been appointed and
qualified. Of the members first appointed under R.A. No. 3559, the Chairman shall
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be appointed and hold office for three (3) years; one (1) member for two (2)
years; and one (1) member for one (1) year.
The Chairman or a member of the Board may be re-appointed for another term
but in no case shall he serve continuously for more than six (6) years.
SEC. 7. Board, a Collegial Body The Chairman and Members of the Board
shall act as a collegial body in matters involving the exercise of its powers and
functions as well as the implementation of its policies. Official action on such
matters by the Board shall be effective only when approved by the Commission.
SEC. 8. Meetings The Board shall hold regular meetings at least once a
month within the premises of the Commission or in such other places as may be
agreed upon and approved by the Commission. A special meeting may be called
by the Chairman or any two members.
The Chairman shall preside over the meetings of the Board. In the absence of the
Chairman, the senior member, if any, or the member designated by the Chairman
shall act as Presiding Officer.
ARTICLE IV
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE BOARD
SEC. 9. Duties and Functions of the Chairman The Chairman shall be the
head of the Board and, as such, he shall equitably assign the subjects for the
examination to the members of the Board in accordance with their expertise;
designate members to conduct investigations of administrative cases and
designate members to undertake the visitorial powers of the Board. He shall also
be responsible for the assignment of other duties and responsibilities to the
members and for the supervision and management of their work. The Chairman
shall be the spokesman of the Board in the Commission.
SEC. 10. Enforcement and Implementation The Board, in the enforcement
and implementation of the provisions of Republic Act. No. 8559 and in the
execution and performance of its powers, assisted, supported and/ or advised by
the Commission through its offices, divisions, sections and units.
SEC. 11. Promulgation of Decisions, Rules, Orders, etc. To promulgate a
decision, resolution or order which is not interlocutory in an administrative case,
or a policy, rule or regulation and for the implementation of other provisions of
R.A. No. 8559, the Board shall meet en banc and vote personally. Both a quorum
and a majority vote are required for the validity of any of the foregoing actions.
The presence of two (2) members shall constitute a majority vote.
An official action of the Board other than decision, resolution or order issued in an
administrative case shall be valid, enforceable, and effective only after it shall
have been approved by the Commission and published in the Official Gazette or
newspaper of general circulation. Publication shall not be required of a Boards
resolution, order, or other issuances, which are internal or not penal or
disciplinary in nature, and not affecting the public in general.
SEC. 12. Meetings and Official Business with the Commission. Unless
all members of the Board are required by the Commission, the Chairman shall be
the representative of the Board in all official meetings and businesses with the
Commission. The Chairman of the Board shall be spokesman in such meetings or
official businesses.
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SEC. 13. Action on Papers, Communications and Other Documents. The

Board shall act on all papers, communications, certificates, cases or other
documents within the premises of the Commission. Action on such documents
outside the premises of the Commission shall be with written consent of the
Chairman of the Commission.
SEC. 14. Interpretation of the Provisions of R.A. No. 8559 and the Rules
and Regulations and Code of Ethics and Professional Standards Issued
by the Board. The Board may, at first instance, resolve issues arising from the
implementation of the provisions of R.A. No. 8559 in the form of opinions issued
by the Board through its Chairman. It may also issue opinions on questions
arising from the implementation of its Rules and Regulations and Code of Ethics
and Professional Standards through its Chairman.
SEC. 15. Action and Ministerial Matters. Ministerial matters arising from
the implementation of the Rules and Regulations issued by the Board or
communications whose subject for action are ministerial in nature shall be acted
upon by the Chairman of the Board.
ARTICLE V
APPLICATION AND EXAMINATION
SEC. 16. Application. The applicant for examination shall file a computerized
application form duly accomplished in the Application Division of the Commission
or in any of its Regional Offices which are also test centers, accompanied by
authentic or authenticated copies of the required documents.
A Filipino citizen who graduated from a foreign educational institution desiring to
take the license examination for agricultural engineers shall be required to
present an endorsement from the Commission on Higher Education in order that
he will be allowed to take the examination.
SEC. 17. Examination. All applicants for registration to the practice of the
agricultural engineering profession shall be required to take and pass the
agricultural engineer license examination.
SEC. 18. Qualification of Applicant for Examination Every applicant for
examination shall establish the following:
a. That he/ she is a citizen of the Philippines;
b. That he/ she is a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Agricultural
Engineering in a school, academy, institute, college or university duly
recognized by the CHED.
SEC. 19. Places and Dates of Examination. The Agricultural Engineer
Licensure Examination shall be held at least once a year in the City of Manila and
in such other places as determined by the Board and approved by the
Commission. The places/ venues and dates of examinations for the year shall be
included in the Schedule of Professional Licensure Examinations issued by the
Commission.
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SEC. 20. Program of Examination. The Board shall issue a program for
every scheduled examination not later than twenty (20) days before the first day
of examination which contain the subjects for examination with their
corresponding percentage weights, the date/ s, time and place of examination.
The program shall include the instructions to the examinees and the names and
signatures of the Chairman and members of the Board.
SEC. 21. Publication of Examination. The dates, time and venues of the
licensure examination shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation or
disseminated to prospective examinees through schools, colleges, and
universities offering agricultural engineering courses at least one (1) month prior
to the first day of examination.
SEC. 22. Licensure Examination Requirements Each applicant for
examination shall comply with/ accomplish all requirements prescribed by the
Board and the Commission.
SEC. 23. Scope of Examination. The Examination for agricultural
engineering shall cover the following subjects:
1. Agricultural mechanization, power, machinery and equipment;
2. Soil and water conservation, irrigation and drainage, and
3. Rural electrification, agricultural processing and agricultural structures.
SEC. 24. Re-examination. An applicant who fails to pass the examination for
the third time shall be allowed to take another examination only after the lapse of
one year from the last examination taken; Provided, that the first examination
and the removal examination, if he fails, shall be considered as one failure.
SEC. 25. Formulation of Syllabus. The Board shall formulate and adopt a
syllabus for each of the licensure examination subjects. Test questions that will be
prepared and encoded in the computers shall be within the scope of the syllabus.
SEC. 26. Full Computerization of Examination. The licensure
examinations shall be fully computerized. New members of the Board assigned a
particular subject shall prepare at least five hundred (500) questions in each of
the subjects he is assigned. These questions shall be inputted in the item bank
from which the questions to be given in a particular licensure examination shall
be extracted at random. The Test Questions Bank for a particular subject shall be
replenished within sixty (60) days from the release of the results of the
examination with at least three hundred (300) questions every after examination
until the bank has 2,000 questions in which case the replenishment shall be equal
to the number of questions extracted. The correction of the answer sheets of the
examinees shall be done by the computers.
ARTICLE VI
REGISTRATION AND CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION
SEC. 27. Automatic Registration. All practicing agricultural engineers who
are registered with the Professional Regulation Commission in accordance with
R.A. No. 3927 are hereby automatically registered and authorized to practice the
agricultural engineering profession.
Those agricultural engineers registered with the Professional Regulation
Commission in accordance with the same Act who are not practicing their
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profession at the time R.A. No. 8559 took effect shall be registered upon filling an
application. There should be no deadline for the filling of such application.
SEC. 28. Registration of Successful Examinees. All those who passed the
licensure examination shall, unless specifically deferred for cause by the Board,
be registered after taking the oath of a professional before the Board or any
person authorized by law to administer oath and payment of the prescribed fees.
SEC. 29. Issuance of Certificate of Registration and Professional
License. Upon compliance with the requirements for registration, the name of
the Agricultural Engineer shall be entered in the Roll of Agricultural Engineers and
he/ she shall be issued a certificate of registration and the corresponding
professional license.
SEC. 30. Renewal of the Professional License. The professional license
issued to an agricultural engineer shall be valid for three (3) years on the birth
month of the agricultural engineer upon presentation of the required Continuing
Professional Education (CPE) credit units earned and payment of the fees for the
period under license.
SEC. 31. Temporary Removal from the Roll of Agricultural Engineers.
An agricultural engineer who has been delinquent in the payment of his annual
license fees for five (5) consecutive years since his last payment of said fees
shall, after due process has been observed, be dropped from the Roll of
Agricultural Engineers.
SEC. 32. Lifting of Deferment of Registration. If the disciplinary action
imposed upon a successful examinee in a decision rendered by the Board or the
Commission is not the cancellation of examination papers and/ or prohibition from
taking future examinations, the respondent-examinee who passed the said
licensure examinations may be allowed by the Board to register if such is
provided in the decision.
A duplicate certificate of registration to replace any certificate lost or destroyed
may be issued upon application and payment of the prescribed fees.
SEC. 33. Grounds for the Revocation or Suspension of Professional
License. The Board, after due notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke the
license of an agricultural engineer, or cancel temporary/ special permit issued to
foreign agricultural engineers allowed to practice agricultural engineering in the
Philippines if he is found to have committed any of the following:
a. Use or perpetuation of any fraud or deceit in obtaining a certificate of
registration;
b. Incompetence;
c. Negligence;
d. Abetting the illegal practice of agricultural engineering and
e. Violations of any provisions of R.A. 8559, its Implementing Rules and
Regulations, Code of Ethics and Professional Standards for Agricultural
Engineers, and the policies adopted by the Board.
The Board shall be assisted by the Legal and Investigation Division of the
Commission in performing this function.
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ARTICLE VII
REGISTRATION WITH OR WITHOUT EXAMINATION AND/ OR ISSUANCE OF
TEMPORARY SPECIAL PERMIT TO FOREIGNERS OR FOREIGN
PROFESSIONALS
SEC. 34. Applicability of the Guidelines Promulgated by the
Commission. The Guidelines for the Registration of Foreign Professionals
Allowed by the Laws to Practice the Regulated Professions in the Philippines, as
amended, promulgated by the Professional Regulation Commission on January
20, 1998 shall be applicable to foreign agricultural engineers allowed by laws to
practice the profession in the Philippines.
The Board of Agricultural Engineering shall issue Rules and Regulations providing
for the procedure for the registration with or without examination of or issuance
of temporary special permits to foreigners or foreign professional allowed by the
various laws to practice the regulated profession in the Philippines.

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ARTICLE VIII
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS
SEC. 35. Administrative Investigation. The conduct and procedures of an
investigation initiated by the Board against an applicant/ examinee for licensure
examination or a registered agricultural engineer shall be governed by the
provisions of the Rules and Regulations Governing the Regulation and Practice of
Professionals, as amended, issued by the Commission. The pertinent provisions
of the Revised Rules of Court shall be supplementary to the said rules.
ARTICLE IX
REPORT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE CANDIDATES OF SCHOOLS,
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN LICENSURE EXAMINATIONS
SEC. 36. Report of the Board. The Board shall, with assistance of the Public
Information and Statistics Section of the Professional Regulation Commission,
prepare a report on the performance of the examinees of schools, colleges or
universities in the licensure examinations. The Board may recommend to the
Commission on Higher Education: (1) the monitoring of the schools, colleges or
universities, whether public or private, whose successful examinees in three (3)
consecutive licensure examinations is less than 5% of the total number of
candidates who took the said licensure examinations; (2) the publication of the
names of schools, colleges or universities whose successful examinees in five (5)
successive licensure examinations is less than 5% of the total number of
examinees in each of the licensure examinations taken; and (3) the closure of the
course/ program.
ARTICLE X
SEAL AND USE OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS
SEC. 37. Seal of Licensed Agricultural Engineer. Every agricultural
engineer shall obtain a seal whose design shall be adopted by the Board. Plans
and specifications prepared by or under the direct supervision of a registered
agricultural engineer shall be stamped with his seal during the validity of his
professional license. The Agricultural Engineers shall likewise indicate his
Professional License Number, the duration of its validity, including the privilege
(professional) tax receipt number on all documents he signs, uses or issues and
affixes his seal in connection with the practice of his profession.
SEC. 38. Documents to be Signed and Sealed. The documents to be
signed and sealed by an agricultural engineer shall be those listed in Annex A of
PRC Resolution No. 270 Series of 1993. The Board may also add other documents
to be signed and sealed by an agricultural engineer.
ARTICLE XI
CODE OF ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
SEC. 39. Code of Ethics and Professional Standards. The Board, in
consultation with the Integrated Accredited Association of Agricultural Engineers
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and subject to the approval of the Commission, shall adopt and promulgate a
Code of Ethics and Professional Standards for agricultural engineers.
SEC. 40. Code of Technical Standards of Agricultural Engineering. The
Board, in collaboration and consultation with the Integrated and Accredited
Association of Agricultural Engineers and concerned agencies, government and
private, shall immediately prepare, develop and promulgate a Code of Technical
Standards of Agricultural Engineering which shall contain, among others, standard
design and test procedures, materials and process specification of agricultural,
aquaculture and fishery machinery, structures, processes and other agricultural
engineering system. The Code of Technical Standards shall serve as reference of
the agricultural engineer in the practice of his profession.
The Board and the Integrated and Accredited Association of Agricultural Engineers
with the assistance of the Commission shall work for the incorporation of the
Code of Technical Standards of Agricultural Engineering by the Secretary of Public
Works and Highways as part of the National Building Code.
ARTICLE XII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE PRACTICE OF
AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
SEC. 41. Employment of Agricultural Engineer. Firms, companies,
partnerships or associations which are engaged in the installation, construction,
manufacture or sale of agricultural machinery, facilities and other agricultural
engineering processes, shall hire or engage the services of at least one licensed
agricultural engineer.
The proprietor or manager of a firm, partnership or association which employs a
licensed agricultural engineer shall post or cause to be posted in a conspicuous
place within the place of business of the firm, partnership or association, the
certificate of registration of the agricultural engineer.
SEC. 42. Agricultural Engineering Practice. The Board shall make
representations with firms, partnerships or associations and government agencies
and instrumentalities, including government owned and controlled corporations,
educational institutions, local governments to hire, employ or engage the services
of licensed agricultural engineers to perform the acts and functions constituting
the practice of agricultural engineering in their respective offices, undertakings or
projects which involve the design, installation, construction, operation and
maintenance, manufacture or sale of agricultural and fishery machinery, facilities
and other agricultural engineering systems and processes.
ARTICLE XIII
PROHIBITIONS, ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES
SEC. 43. Prohibitions. (1) No person shall stamp or seal any document with
the seal of an Agricultural Engineer after his professional license has expired or
lost its validity.
(2) No officer or employee of the government, chartered cities, provinces and
municipalities now or hereafter charged with the enforcement of laws, ordinances
or regulations relating to the construction or alteration of agricultural structures,
machinery and equipment, processes and systems shall accept or endorse any
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plans or specifications which have not been prepared and submitted in full accord
with the provisions of R.A. No. 8559, nor shall any payment be approved by any
such officer for any work, the plans and specifications of which have not been
prepared, signed and sealed by a duly registered Agricultural Engineer.
(3) No Agricultural Engineer shall sign his name, affix his seal or use any other
method of signature of plans, specifications or other documents made by or
under another Agricultural Engineers supervision unless the same is made in
such manner as to clearly indicate the fact of such work actually performed by
him.
(4) No person, except the Agricultural Engineer in charge, shall sign for any
branch of the work or any function of Agricultural Engineering practice actually
performed by him.
(5) No person without the written consent of the Agricultural Engineer or author of
drawings and specifications duly signed, stamped or sealed by him, shall
duplicate or make copies of said documents for the use in the repetition of and for
other projects or building whether executed partly or in whole.
(6) No person shall practice Agricultural Engineering unless such person has
secured a license to practice Agricultural Engineering.
(7) No firm, company, partnership, association or corporation may be registered
or licensed as such for the practice of Agricultural Engineering.
SEC. 44. Enforcement The Professional Regulation Commission through its
various offices, division, sections and units shall implement the provisions of R.A.
No. 8559, enforce the Boards implementing rules and regulations and conduct,
through its Legal and Investigations Division, investigations and complaints
arising from violations of the provisions of R.A. No. 8559, the implementing Rules
and Regulations including the Code of Ethics and Professional Standards and
prosecute the violators if so warranted by the evidence.
SEC. 45. Penalties. Any person who violates any provisions of R.A. No. 8559,
upon conviction, shall, in addition to administrative sanctions, be penalized by a
fine not less than Fifty Thousand (P50,000.00) Pesos not more than Two Hundred
Thousand (P200,000.00) Pesos, or imprisonment of not less than six (6) months
not more than three (3) years, or both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of
the court.

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ARTICLE XIV
APPLICABILITY OF RULES AND REGULATIONS
PROMULGATED BY THE COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING
PD NO. 223, AS AMENDED
SEC. 46. Applicability of the Rules and Regulations. The Rules and
Regulations Governing the Regulation and Practice of Professionals, as amended,
promulgated by the Professional Regulation Commission on the 9th day of January
1974 shall be applicable to the licensure and regulation of agricultural engineers.
SEC. 47. Separability Clause. If any section, provision or paragraph hereof
shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid, such judgement shall not affect,
invalidate or impair any other part hereof, but such judgement shall be merely
confined to the clause, provision or paragraph directly involved in the controversy
in which such judgement has been rendered.
ARTICLE XV
EFFECTIVITY
SEC. 48. Effectivity. This Rules and Regulations shall take effect after thirty
(30) days following the completion of its publication in a newspaper of general
circulation or in the Official Gazette, whichever comes earlier.
Done in the City of Manila this 3rd day of August, 1998.
(Sgd.) GEORGE Q. CANAPI
Chairman
(Sgd.) CRESTITUTO C. MANGAOANG
Member
MAKMOD T. MENDING
Member
ATTESTED:
APRPOVED:
(Sgd.) CARLOS G. ALMELOR

Secretary, Professional Regulatory Boards
(Sgd.) HERMOGENES P. POBRE
Commissioner
(Sgd.) ALFONSO G. ABAD
Associate Commissioner
(Sgd.) AVELINA DE LA REA-TAN
Published in the Official Gazette: Vol. 94 Manila, Philippines, August 3, 1998. No. 35
pages 6087 to 6096.

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Professional Regulation Commission
Manila
Resolution No. 270
Series of 1993
REQUIRING THE INDICATION OF THE
REGISTRATION/ PROFESSIONAL LICENSE NUMBER
AND EXPIRY OF ITS VALIDITY ON THE DOCUMENTS
EXECUTED BY A PROFESSIONAL
WHEREAS the indication of the Registration/ Professional License Number with the
date of its issuance in the document that a professional signs, issues, and/
or uses in the practice of his profession certifies that the holder thereof is a
registered professional;
WHEREAS the statement of the period of validity of the Professional License in the
same document declares the payment of the annual registration fees for
three (3) years and/ or compliance with the Continuing Professional
Education (CPE) and the validity of the Certificate of Registration.
WHEREAS the Registration/ Professional License Number, the date of its issuance,
and the period of its validity are vital information that will facilitate and
expedite the tracing of bona-fide registration and updated renewal of
Professional License and;
WHEREAS under Sec. 5 (c) of P.D. 223, as amended by P.D. 457, the Commission has
the functions and duties as maybe necessary to carry out effectively the
various provision of the professional regulatory laws, decrees or orders,
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of Sec. 5 (a), (b) and (c) of P.D. 223, as amended, the
Commission hereby RESOLVED, as it so RESOVES, THAT:
Section 1. A registered professional shall state or indicate his Registration/
Professional License Number with its date of issuance and the period of validity of
his Professional License in any of the documents in ANNEX A that he signs, uses,
and/ or issues.
Section 2. A registered professional shall be administratively and/ or criminally
held liable for any of the hereunder acts, to wit:
1. Non- compliance with Section 1
2. Using or stating false Registration/ Professional License Number in any of
the documents in ANNEX A that he signs, uses, and/or issues.
3. Using or stating the Number of a Certificate of Registration that has been
revoked or suspended through violation of the law or rule/ regulation or
through deleting of name from the Roster of Professionals: or the Number
of a Professional License that has expired or lost its validity in any of the
documents in ANNEX A, that he signs, uses, and/ or issues.
Section 3. The herein resolution shall be effective after fifteen (15) days
following the full publication thereof in the Official Gazette or a newspaper of
general circulation.
Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of May 1993.
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(SGD) HERMOGENES P. POBRE

Commissioner
(SGD) MARIANO MENDIETA
(SGD) ARMANDO C. PASCUAL

DOCUMENTS SIGNED AND USED BY

REGISTERED PROFESSIONALS
1. Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
1.1 Audit Reports
1.2 Financial Statements: Balance Sheets, Income Statements, Cash Flow, Funds
Flow or Changes in Financial Positions, Government Trial Balance and
Government Vouchers
2. Aeronautical Engineer
2.1 Plans
2.2 Structural Designs and Analysis
2.3 Drawings and Specifications
2.4 Technical Reports and Studies
2.5 Aerodynamics Analysis
2.6 Professional Evaluation and Recommendations
2.7 Static Test
2.8 Certificates of Conformity
2.9 Certificates of Major Repairs, Alterations and Modifications
3. Architect
3.1 Plans for GSIS, SSS, Pag-ibig Loans and other government or private lending
institutions and other regulatory bodies (permit purpose), e.g., HLURB, etc.
3.2 Bill of Materials and Cost Estimates
3.3 Project Studies
3.4 Structural Computations
3.5 Specifications
3.6 Building Permit
3.7 Form 104 (PRC)
4. Agricultural Engineer
4.1 Engineering plans, designs, specifications and cost estimates on:
4.1.a. Farm Buildings and Structures such as: silos and its components,
warehouses, farm machinery sheds, farmer houses, green/ screen
houses, poultry and livestock houses, slaughter houses, bulk handling
systems, agricultural equipment sheds, and all related appurtenances,
etc.
4.1.b. Agricultural processing facilities, cold storage, dryers, threshers,
shelters, mills (rice, corn peanut, feed, etc.), seed processing plant,
storage, graders, sorters, packaging, labeling, baling, caning, etc.
4.1.c. Agricultural power and machinery such as power tillers, seeders,
transplanters, weeders, strippers, balers, fads and aerators, pest control
equipment, windmill, etc.
4.1.d. Soil and Water conservation project, technology, structures and
systems like drip irrigation, small impounding project, irrigation, contour
farming, small farm reservoir, drainage system, sloping
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agrometeorological devices, water management, water and land

development.
4.1.e. Farm electrification such as wiring, lighting, electric generators and
motors, village type power plant including development of nonconventional energy equipment, and facilities for agricultural purposes.
4.2 All contracts pertinent to items 1.a to 1.b and farm development.
4.3 Bid proposals/ offers (agricultural machinery and equipment, post harvest
facilities, feasibility studies).
4.4 Technical reports and studies (Evaluation reports, valuation, appraisal, and
testing and evaluation of agricultural machinery, equipment and facilities.
4.5 Certifications (patents, copyright, etc.)
4.6 Area development planning pertinent to agriculture development, physical
development plans and farm subdivision, etc.
4.7 Feasibility studies, programs, project proposals on agricultural engineering
field intended for financing and other purposes.
4.8 (Agricultural) Resources surveys, assessments and mapping such as water
resource inventory for irrigation and farm households use, farming systems,
land evaluations, agrometeorological assessment, land use surveys and
planning, soil surveys, etc. for rural agricultural development purposes.
5. Chemical Engineer
5.1 Plans for process/ flow schemes, detailed engineering drawings of industrial
plants or parts thereof
5.2 Designs of Process Equipment for individual plants
5.3 Technical Reports
5.4 Valuations
5.5 Estimates
6. Chemist
6.1 Technical Reports
7. Civil Engineer
7.1 Engineering Plans and Specifications
7.2 Engineering Designs and Analysis
7.3 Quantity and Cost Estimates
7.4 Technical Reports and Studies
7.5 Bid Proposals
7.6 Contract Documents
7.7 Professional Evaluations and Recommendations
7.8 Project Logbooks
7.9 Project/ Instructions for implementation
8. Criminologists
8.1 Reports (Questioned Documents)
8.2 Firearm Identification (Ballistics)
8.3 Photographic, Polygraph, and Dactyloscopic Examination
9. Dentist
9.1 Referrals to Specialist
9.2 Prescriptions
9.3 Account Slips
9.4 Work Authorization to Dental Laboratories
9.5 Special or Official Receipts
9.6 Post Medication Instruction to Patients
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10. Electrical
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
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Engineers (Professional)
Plans
Specifications
Reports
Permits
Completion
Estimates
Certifications
Vouchers for Experiences
11. Electronics and Communications Engineer

11.1
Plans
11.2
Technical Descriptions
11.3
Correspondences, Communications
11.4
Specifications
11.5
Drawings
11.6
Proposal/ Offers
11.7
Studies/ Reports
12. Foresters
12.1
Plans (Development plans and feasibility studies on the Wood-based
and Non-Timber based industries, Industrial Tree Plantations, Forest Land
Management Agreements, Forest Management, Reforestation, Range and
Grazing, Watershed and Mangrove Rehabilitation, Integrated Social Forestry
Projects (ISF), Community Forestry Program (CFP) and other upland projects,
Integrated Operations Plans of logging companies and other wood processing
plants);
12.2
Reports (forestry consultancy series, annual accomplishment of logging
companies and wood processing plants, log and lumber grading, scaling of
forest products, major and minor forest products resources inventory,
monitoring and evaluation of contract activities on reforestation, CFP, ISF,
Watershed and Mangrove Rehabilitation and other upland development
projects; administration and supervision contracts in reforestation, CFP, ISF,
and other upland development projects);
12.3
Contracts (survey, mapping and planning of reforestation, Industrial
Tree Plantations, Logging Operations, CFP, ISF, Mangrove Rehabilitation and
other upland development projects, comprehensive reforestation activities,
monitoring and evaluation, administration and supervision of reforestation,
CFP, ISF, watershed and mangrove rehabilitation and other development
projects, establishment of logging and access roads and trials and other
infrastructures);
12.4
References (forest maps, statistics and surveys);
12.5
Certifications (status of land classification)
13. Geodetic
13.1
13.2
13.3
13.4
13.5
13.6
13.7
13.8
Engineer
Survey Returns
Plans/ Maps
Technical Descriptions
Certifications
Technical Studies and Reports
Expert Opinions
Proposals
Survey Designs and Specifications
14. Geologist
14.1
Geological reports, maps or works
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15. Mechanical Engineer (Professional)

15.1
Reports (consultations, investigations, valuations and technical)
15.2
Designs, plans, specifications
15.3
Estimates, designs, layouts of mechanical equipment, machinery,
process works ( project or plant)
16. Physician
16.1
Prescriptions, including dangerous drugs
17. Metallurgical Engineer
17.1
Documents or reports on consultation, investigations, valuations,
planning and designing
17.2
Metallurgical Tests/ Analysis
18. Mining Engineer
18.1
Technical Reports
18.2
Estimates (mine, valuation, mineral ore)
19. Midwife
19.1
19.2
Birth Certificate
Still Birth Certificate
20. Naval Architect and Marine Engineer

20.1
Plans, designs and specifications
20.2
Reports, layouts, estimates
21. Nurse
21.1
21.2
Contract of Employment in Private Nursing Practice and other Services

Nurses Notes, orders in client/ patients clinical charts
22. Optometrist
22.1
Prescriptions
23. Pharmacist
23.1
Applications for BFD permit to operate as company pharmacist
23.2
Laboratory reports for submission to BFD
23.3
Documents for submission to BFD for registration of new products
23.4
Dangerous drugs accountability documents for submission to DDB
24. Physical
24.1
24.2
24.3
24.4
24.5
24.6
24.7
Therapist and Occupational Therapist

Medical Charts
Treatment/ Dialogue summary
Working contract
Treatment plans
Referrals
Progress Notes
Evaluation reports
25. Master Plumber

25.1
Application
25.2
Application for Water and Sewer Connection
25.3
Final Plumbing or Occupancy Permit
25.4
Renovation or Alteration for Projects
25.5
PRCApplication for Examination Form (validation and/ or certification)
26. Sanitary Engineer
Specifications

26.1
Plans, specifications,
technical)
26.2
Layouts
designs,
report
(investigation,
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valuation,
27. Veterinarian
27.1
Prescription, including dangerous drugs
28. Interior Designers
28.1
Plans, drawings, specifications, permits
28.2
Contract Document, Proposals, Estimates
29. Landscape Architecture
29.1
Plans, drawings, specifications, permits
30. Social Workers
30.1
Social Case Study Report
30.2
Social Development plan
31. Desk Officers
31.1
Certificate of Service (PRC form)
32. Engine Officers
32.1 Certificate of Service (PRC form)

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Agricultural Engineering Law, Professional Ethics, Engineering Contracts

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II. Agricultural Engineering Law

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The Agricultural Engineering Code of Ethics

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Ethics the moral system of a particular school of thought, relating to morality of

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Section 3. Registered Agricultural Engineers should, in the public interest and to

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water conservation; irrigation, drainage and water resources management;

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V. Engineering Contracts and Specifications

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2. Persons of unsound minds

VI. Technical Specifications

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The responsibility of the Agricultural Engineer

Engineering Drawing and Specifications

Common information recorded on an engineering drawing

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Engineers need to understand the legal and commercial context in

Clear specification is necessary to ensure that

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Some consequences of unclear and unfair specifications

may hamper intelligent bidding

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Republic of the Philippines

Definition of Terms - As used in this Act, the following terms shall

Practice of agricultural engineering shall refer to the profession

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Consultation, evaluation, investigation and management services on

Management or supervision and the preparation of engineering

Conducting research and development, training and extension work,

Testing, evaluation and inspection of agricultural, fishery and forest

Management, manufacturing and/ or marketing of agricultural

Teaching, agricultural engineering subjects in institution of learning in

Employment with the government provided such item or position

(b) Agricultural engineer - An agricultural engineer is natural person who has

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(c) Must be a holder of Bachelors Degree in Agricultural Engineering or its

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To supervise the registration, licensure and practice of professional

To administer oaths of successful examinees entering the practice of

To issue the certificate of registration to successful examinees;

To issue, suspend or revoke the license for the practice of agricultural

To adopt an official seal of the Board;

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