1. R.A. 3394    
   An act establishing the Palompon School of Arts and Trades in the Municipality of Palompon, Province of Leyte. (Approved: June 18, 1961)
   
   
2. R.A. 5101
   An act converting the Palompon School of Arts and Trades in the Municipality of Palompon, Province of Leyte, into an Institute of Technology, to be known as the Palompon Institute of Technology (PIT). (Approved: June 17, 1967)

MANDATE

(Section 2 of RA 5101) The purpose of said institute of technology shall be to provide higher vocational, professional, and technical instruction and training in trade and industrial education and other vocational courses, professional courses, such as medicine, commerce, pharmacy, education, agriculture and dentistry, and to offer engineering courses to uplift the technological potential and talents of the youth in this part of the archipelago; and for special purposes, to promote research, advance studies and progressive leadership in the fields of trade, technical, industrial and technological education.