Republic Act No. 3095




REPUBLIC ACT No. 3095 An Act Granting Marcelo Villalba of Marawi City a Permit to Construct, Maintain and Operate Radio Broadcasting Stations and Stations for Television in the Philippines Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled: Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, as well as of Act Numbered Thirty-eight hundred forty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications in the Philippine Island, and for other purposes;" Act Numbered Thirty-nine hundred ninety-seven, known as the Radio Broadcasting Law; Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred forty-six, known as the Public Service Act, and their amendments, and other applicable laws, Marcelo Villalba of Marawi City, is hereby granted a permit to construct, maintain and operate, for commercial purposes and in the public interest, radio broadcasting stations and stations for television in the Philippines: Provided, That this permit shall be void unless the construction for at least one radio broadcasting station or television station is begun within six months from the date of approval of this Act and completed within two years from said date: Provided, further, That the grantee shall provide adequate public service time to enable the Government, through the stations herein authorized, to reach the population on important issues; shall assist in the functions of public information and education; shall conform to the ethics of honest enterprise; and shall not use said stations for the broadcasting and/or telecasting of obscene or indecent language, speech, act or scene, or for the dissemination of deliberately false information or willful misrepresentation, or to the detriment of the public health, or to incite, encourage or assist in subversive or treasonable acts. Section 2. The grantee shall file a bond in the amount of fifty thousand pesos to guaranty the full compliance and fulfillment of the conditions under which this permit is granted. Section 3. In the event of any competing individual, partnership or corporation receiving from the Congress a similar permit in which there shall be any term or terms more favorable than those herein granted or tending to place the herein grantee at any disadvantage, then such term or terms shall ipso facto become part of the terms hereof and shall operate equally in favor of the grantee as in the case of said competing individual, partnership or corporation. Section 4. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, rebellion, public peril or other national emergency and when public safety requires, to cause the closing of the grantee’s radio station or stations or to authorize the use or possession thereof by any department of the government without compensation to the grantee for the use of said station during the continuance of the national emergency.1avvphi1 Section 5. The grantee shall be liable to pay the same taxes on his real estate, buildings and personal property, exclusive of the permit, as other persons or corporations are now or hereafter may be required by law to pay. Section 6. The grantee shall not require any previous censorship of speech, play, act or scene or other matter to be broadcast and/or telecast from his stations; but if any such speech, play, act or scene or other matter should constitute a violation of the law or infringement of private right, the grantee shall be free from any liability, civil or criminal, for such speech, play, act or scene or other matter: Provided, That the grantee, during any broadcast and/or telecast may cut off from the air the speech, play, act or scene or other matter being broadcast and/or telecast, if the tendency thereof is to purpose and/or incite treason, rebellion or sedition, or the language used therein or the theme thereof is indecent or immoral. Section 7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved: June 17, 1961. The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation