[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6255, June 19, 1971 ]
AN ACT GRANTING LUNA TIMBER COMPANY, INC., A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, COASTAL, AERONAUTICAL, LAND-BASED AND LAND MOBILE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATION 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 Luna Timber Company, Inc., or its assigns a temporary permit to construct, operate and maintain in the Philippines, at such places the said grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point, coastal, aeronautical, land-based and land mobile radio stations, for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraph and/or radiotelephone, each to be provided a radio transmitting and a radio receiving apparatus.1âшphi1
Section 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point, coastal, aeronautical, land-based and land mobile radio stations on any of the lands of public domain upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe.
Section 3. This temporary permit will continue to be in force until such 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 of at least one of said stations be begun within one year from the date of approval of this Act and be completed within two years from said date.
Section 4. The grantee shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunication in the Philippines without further special assent of the Congress of the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of the permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point, coastal, aeronautical, land-based, and land mobile radio stations in such places within the Philippines as the interest of the grantee and of its trade and business may justify.
Section 5. The grantee shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or which may hereafter be enacted.
Section 6. This temporary permit shall not take effect until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have alloted to the grantee the frequencies and wave lengths to be used thereunder.
Section 7. No fees are chargeable as the radio stations that may be established by vitrue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only.
Section 8. The grantee shall so construct and operate its radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of the other stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.
Section 9. The grantee shall hold the national, provincial and municipal government of the Philippines free from all claims, accounts, demands or actions arising out of accidents or injuries whether to property or persons caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations.
Section 10. The grantee shall not lease, transfer, grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this temporary permit, or 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 previous approval of the Congress of the Philippines. 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, 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 other commercial or legal entity.
Section 11. Special right is hereby reserved for 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. Whenever in this permit the term "grantee" is used, it shall be held and understood to mean Luna Timber Co., Inc., its representatives, successors or assigns, unless the context indicate otherwise.
Section 13. 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 to mean exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided for.
Section 14. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, June 19, 1971.
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