Section 5
SEC. 5. Functions, powers and duties of the Board.&mdashThe Board of governors shall have the following functions, powers and duties: 1. To adopt a constitution and by-laws; 2. To adopt a uniform set of rules to determine and govern amateur athletes and sports in the Philippines; 3. To adopt rules and regulations, consistent with administrative due process, to govern the procedure to be observed by the National Sports' Associations and the executive committee in hearing and deciding cases before them either on initial hearing or on appeal; 4. To suspend for cause a member-association of the federation by a vote of two-thirds of the board and withdraw recognition of an association by a vote of three-fourths of the board. The reinstatement to active status of the association affected shall be effected in the same manner; 5. To authorize the executive committee to negotiate and conclude, for and in behalf of the federation, transactions for the acquisition, disposition, and encumbrance of real or personal property as well as the raising of funds for the accomplishment of the purposes of the federation.