Section 5
SEC. 5. The Board of Trustees of the Catanduanes State Colleges shall be composed of the Secretary of Education, who shall be ex-officio Chairman of the Board, the Chairman of the Committee on Education of the House of Representatives, the Director of Public Schools, the President of the Colleges, and the President of the Catanduanes State Colleges Alumni Association. In the absence or the inability of the Secretary of Education, as ex-officio Chairman of the Board of Trustees, or in the event that there is no incumbent Secretary of Education, the Undersecretary of Education shall act as the ex-officio Chairman of the Board of Trustees. When both the Secretary and the Undersecretary of Education are unable to exercise the powers of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, or when these two positions are vacant, the members of the Board may elect from among themselves a temporary chairman who shall act as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Members of the Board shall serve without compensation other than actual and necessary expenses incurred either in attendance upon meetings of the Board or upon other official business authorized by resolution of the Board.