REPUBLIC ACT No. 1845
An Act Granting the Tagum Agricultural Development Company, Inc. a Temporary Permit to Construct, Maintain and Operate Private Fixed Point-to-Point and Land Based Radio Stations for the Reception and Transmission of Radio Communications Within the Philippines
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:
Section 1. There is hereby granted to the Tagum Agricultural Development Company, Inc., its successors or assigns, hereinafter referred to as "grantee," a temporary permit to construct, maintain and operate in the cities of Manila, Davao and Cagayan de Oro, and at such other places in the Philippines as the grantee may select with the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point and land based radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus.
Section 2. This temporary permit shall continue to be in force during the time that the Government has not established similar service at the places selected by the grantee, and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction or installation of said station be begun within one year from the date of the approval of this Act and be completed within two years from said date.
Section 3. The grantee, its successors and assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, install, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point and land based radio stations in the cities of Manila, Davao, and Cagayan de Oro, and at such other places within the Philippines as the interests of the grantee may justify.
Section 4. No fees shall be charged by the grantee as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only.
Section 5. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall so construct and operate its radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.
Section 6. The grantee shall file a bond in the amount of fifty thousand pesos to guaranty full compliance and fulfillment of the conditions under which this temporary permit is granted.1âшphi1
Section 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial, city and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands or actions arising out of accidents or injuries whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations.
Section 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines nor existing or hereafter enacted.
Section 9. The grantee shall not lease, transfer, grant to usufruct of, sell or assign this temporary permit, nor the rights or privileges acquired thereunder to any person, firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity, nor merge with any other person, firm, company, or corporation organized for the same purpose, without the approval of the Congress of the Philippines first had. Any corporation to which this temporary permit may be sold, transferred, or assigned, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted, and any person, firm, company, corporation, or other commercial or legal entity to which this temporary permit is sold, or assigned shall be subject to all conditions, terms, restrictions and limitations of this temporary permit as fully and completely and to the same extent as if the temporary permit had been originally granted to the said person, firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity.
Section 10. The grantee, its successors or assigns, is authorized to operate its private fixed point-to-point and land based radio stations on the medium frequency, high frequency, and very high frequency, that may be assigned to it by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications.
Section 11. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, emergency, calamity or disaster to cause the closing of the grantee's radio stations or to authorize the temporary use, or possession thereof by any department of the Government upon payment of just compensation.
Section 12. This temporary permit shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when public interest so requires, and shall not be interpreted as an exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided for.
Section 13. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: June 22, 1957.
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