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Act No. 3889 Section 2

Act No. 3889 Section 2

Section 2

SEC. 2. Section six of Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 6. The Board of Examiners for Surveyors shall meet in the City of Manila for the purpose of holding examinations, on the first Tuesday not a holiday of June of each year, upon at least thirty days notice published in two of the most widely read newspapers of the capital, one in English and the other in Spanish. "The Board of Examiners shall hold three kinds of examination for the practice of surveying, to wit: "(1) For isolated surveys of private land for registration purposes, public lands, topographic and hydrographic surveys, levelling, and subdivisions; "(2) For cadastral surveys; and "(3) For mineral surveys. "Candidates for surveyor may take these three kinds of examinations at once or separately, provided they have the following qualifications; "(a) Be twenty years of age or over; "(b) Be of good moral conduct; "(c) Have diplomas or certificates showing the holder to have completed four years of high school or their equivalent and have studied and practised the following subjects in a school, college, or university duly constituted and recognized as such by the Government, for not less than two years, and have had not less than one year of practice in surveying work after graduation; or have qualified in the civil-service examination for junior surveyor and have worked as such for a period of not less than one year after having qualified in the civil-service examination for junior surveyor: "1. Algebra; "2. Plane and sphere geometry; "3. Plane and sphere trigonometry; "4. Fundamental principles of physics and theory of the lense; "5. Drawing and making plans, including the system of coordinates; "6. Astronomy, on observation and computation of the position of the sun, polars, and stars; . "7. Theory, fundamental principles and use of the stadia; "8. Direct and indirect measuring of distances with stadia and chain; "9. Surveys with compass or alidade and stadia; "10. Topographic and hydrographic surveys; "11. Levelling; "12. Use and manipulation of transit, compass, and telescopes for levelling; , "13. Surveying of mineral lands; "14. Surveying of land under the cadastral system; "15. System of land surveying in the United, States; "16. Regulations, cadastral and public land laws governing land surveys in the Philippine Islands, mining laws, and any other subjects prescribed by the Board in the regulations issued by it. "Candidates for cadastral surveyor or mineral surveyor may submit to examination as such provided they have passed the examination for isolated surveys and have made isolated surveys for a period of not less than three years after having passed the examination for isolated surveys."

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CitationAct No. 3889 Section 2 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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