[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5510, June 21, 1969 ]
AN ACT GRANTING CALINOG-LAMBUNAO SUGAR MILLS INTEGRATED FARMING, INCORPORATED A" TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, RELAY AND MOBILE 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 Philippines in Congress assembled:
Section 1. There is hereby granted to Calinog-Lambunao Sugar Mills Integrated Farming, Incorporated, its successors or assigns a temporary permit to construct, operate and maintain in the Philippines, in such places as the said company may select, subject to the approval of the Department Secretary under whose jurisdiction the Radio Control Board is functioning, or any competent authority who is or shall be authorized to give said approval, such private Fixed point-to-point, land based, relay and mobile radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraph or radiotelephone, each station to consist of two radio apparatus comprising of receiving and sending radio apparatus.
Section 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point, land based, relay and mobile radio stations or any of them on the public domain upon such terms as may be prescribed.
Section 3. This temporary permit shall continue to be in force during the time that the Government has not published similar service at the places selected by the grantee and is granted upon the express condition that the start shall be void unless the grantee shall start operation said stations within one year from the date of appropriations of this Act.
Section 4. The grantee shall not engage in the domestic business of communications in the Philippines without further special assent of the Congress of the Philippines, being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct install, establish and operate private radio stations places within the Philippines as the interest of the granttee and its trade and business may justify.
Section 5. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, emergency, calamity, or disturbance of peace order, to cause the closing of the station or stations or authorize the temporary use or possession thereof by any department of the Government upon payment of just compensation.
Section 6. 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 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall construct and operate its radio stations an not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.
Section 8. 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 t property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations.
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, corporation or other commercial or legal nor merge with any other person, 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 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 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 had been originally granted to the said person, firm, company, corporation or commercial or legal entity.
Section 10. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted.
Section 11. The grantee, its successors or assigns, is authorized to operate its private fixed point-to-point, relay mid mobile radio stations in the medium frequency, high frequency, and very high frequency that may be assigned to it by the licensing authority.
Section 12. 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 be interpreted as an exclusive grant of the privilege herein provided for.
Section 13. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.1a⍵⍴h!1
Approved, June 21, 1969.
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