(6) Supervise the financial activities of the office; (7) Prepare budget proposals and other financial reports and documents in accordance with the rules of the Commission on Audit; (8) Ensure proper collections of revenues; (9) Ensure proper remittance of revenues; (10) Maintain Books of Accounts for the Regional, Provincial and District offices; and (11) Assist the Regional Director in the preparation of memoranda, orders and other issuances pertaining to the management of the division. SEC. 16. Functions of the Operations Division. – The Operations Division shall have the followings powers and functions: (1) Conduct security and intelligence services relative to the overall operation of Land Transportation Offices; (2) Coordinate with other security and intelligence units of the Department as well as with other external agencies both private and public strictly in relation with the functions of Land Transportation Offices; (3) Conduct law enforcement functions and activities relating to the mandate of Land Transportation Office; (4) Hear and decide cases involving violations of laws, rules and regulations governing land transportation within the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and to impose fines and/ or penalties therefore; provided that violations resulting in the damage to property and/or physical injuries or violations constituting offenses punishable under the Revised Penal Code and other penal laws shall be under the jurisdiction of the regular courts; (5) Order the impounding of motor vehicles and confiscation of plates or the arrest of violators of laws, rules and regulations governing land transportation; (6) Issue subpoena duces tecum and to summon witnesses to appear in any proceedings thereof, and to administer oaths of affirmations; (7) Promulgate rules and regulations governing the proceedings before it; provided that except with respect to paragraph 3 under 4.41.6, the rules of procedures and evidence prevailing in the courts of law shall not be controlling and all reasonable means to ascertain the facts in each cased shall be used without regard to technicalities of law and procedures but all in the interest of due process; and 176

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