REPUBLIC ACT No. 1882
AN ACT GRANTING THE BACNOTAN CEMENT INDUSTRIES, 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.
Section 1. There is hereby granted to the Bacnotan Cement Industries, Inc., its successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, maintain and operate in the Philippines, at such places as the grantee may select, subject to 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 and radiotelephony, each station to be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and 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 stations 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 or 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, and operate private fixed point-to-point and land based radio stations in such 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 shall file a bond in the amount of fifty thousand pesos to guarantee full compliance and fulfillment of the condition under which this temporary permit is granted.
Section 6. 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 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, is authorized to operate its private fixed point-to-point and land based radio stazions on the medium frequency, high frequency, and very high frequency, that may be essigned to it by the Seiretary of Public Works and Communications.
Section 9. The grantee shall not lease, transfer, grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this temporary permit, nor the rights or privileges acquired thereunder to any person, firm, company, corporatiensation laws.
Section 4. Funding. The sum of two hundred and ten thousand pesos (P210,000) shall be released to the University of the Philippines in the Visayas in Calendar Year 1980 for purposes of operationalizing the Office of the Chancellor. This shall be charged to uncommitted funds of the National Government pursuant to B.P. No. 40 which are authorized for use by new organizational units of Government. Amounts necessary for the operation of the autonomous university beginning in Calendar Year 1981 shall be drawn from the funding authorized by Batas Pambansa Blg. 80.
Section 5. Effectivity. This Order shall be immediately effective.
Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.
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