REPUBLIC ACT No. 5409
An Act Granting Putianay Development Co., Inc. a Temporary Permit to Construct, Operate and Maintain Private Fixed Point-to-Point, Land Based, Land Mobile and Marine Coastal Service 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 Putianay Development Co., Inc. a temporary permit to construct, operate and maintain in such places within the Philippines as the grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point, land based, land mobile, and marine coastal service radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages by radiotelegraph or radiotelephone, each station to be provided with 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 a similar service in 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 approval of this Act and completed within two years from said date.
Section 3. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in the domestic business of telecommunications, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is only to secure to the grantee the right to construct, install, operate and maintain private fixed point-to-point, land based, land mobile, and marine coastal service 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 because the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall be utilized 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, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial, city and municipal governments of the Philippines free 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 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted.1avvphi1
Section 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, is authorized to operate its private radio stations in the medium frequency, high frequency, and very high frequency that may be assigned to it by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications.
Section 9. The grantee shall not lease, transfer, grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this temporary permit, or the rights and privileges acquired thereunder to any person, firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity 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. Any person, firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity to which this temporary permit is sold, transferred 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 has been originally granted to the said person, firm, company, corporation, or other commercial or legal entity.
Section 10. 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 11. This temporary permit shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when the public interest so requires, and shall not be interpreted as an exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided for.
Section 12. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved: June 15, 1968.
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