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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4125 - AN ACT
GRANTING MANUEL E. GALVEZ A FRANCHISE TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND
OPERATE RADIO STATIONS, POINT TO POINT OR WITH RELAY AND CENTRAL
EXCHANGE FOR DOMESTIC COMMUNICATIONS Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution and the provisions of Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred and forty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications in the Philippine Islands, and for the purposes"; Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred forty-six, known as the Public Service Act, and their amendments, and other applicable laws, there is hereby granted to Manuel E. Galvez, his heirs and successors in interest, hereinafter referred to as the "grantee", a franchise to establish, maintain and operate in the Philippines, at such places as the grantee may select and the Secretary of Public Works and Communications may approve circuits and/or stations for domestic telecommunications with the authority to receive and transmit messages, impressions, pictures, music, entertainment, alarms, advertising and signals throughout the Philippines and including ships at sea, airplanes and other conveniences, by means of electricity, electro-magnetic waves or any other kind of energy, force variations or impulses whether conveyed by wires, radiated through space or transmitted through any other medium, to supply facilities for such purposes and to charge and receive compensation therefor by tolls, rentals and charges. Sec. 2. Subject to the limitation and procedure prescribed by law, the grantee is authorized to exercise the right of eminent domain, insofar as may be reasonably necessary to further the establishment and efficient maintenance and operation of his circuits and/or stations and connecting them to one another. The grantee is authorized to construct and maintain his work of public utility and service over and across public property of the Philippines, squares and reservations, and other similar property of the Government of the Philippines and its branches. Sec. 3. This franchise shall continue for a period of twenty-five years from the date the said circuits and/or stations shall be put in operation, and is made upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless at least one domestic circuit and/or station be begun within two years from the date of the approval of this Act and be completed within four years from said date. Sec. 4. (a) The franchise shall not take effect
nor shall any powers thereunder be exercised by the grantee until the
Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the
grantee the frequencies and wave lengths to be used thereunder and
determined the stations to and from which each frequencies and wave
lengths may be used, and issued to the grantee a license for such use,
unless the grantee shall use existing channels, circuits and/or
stations of communication duly licensed by the Philippine Government. Sec. 5. (a) The stations of the grantee shall be
so constructed and operated that a minimum of interference will result
and the wave lengths selected with a view to avoiding interference with
existing stations and to permit the expansion of the grantee's
services. Sec. 6. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines is time of war, rebellion, public peril or other national emergency and when public safety requires to cause the closing of the grantee's circuits and/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 stations during the continuance of the national emergency. Sec. 7. The operation and activities of the circuits and/or stations of the grantee shall contribute to the public welfare; shall conform to honest enterprise; shall assist in the functions of public information and education; and shall not be used for the dissemination of deliberately false information, or willful misrepresentation, or to the detriment of public health, or to incite, encourage or assist in subversive or treasonable acts. Sec. 8. The right is hereby reserved to the Government of the Philippines through the Public Service Commission, or such other office as may be hereunto duly authorized to fix the minimum and maximum rates to be charged by the grantee. Sec. 9. (a) The grantee shall comply with all the
requirements of the Government applicable to duly organized
corporations and to public communications carriers, and shall pay the
same taxes on his real estate, buildings and personal property,
exclusive of the franchise, as other persons or corporations are now or
hereafter may be required by law to pay. Approved: June 20, 1964 |
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