REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4410 - AN ACT TO
AMEND REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO, ENTITLED "AN ACT
GRANTING SEGUNDO SANTOS OF LEGASPI CITY, A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO
CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS IN THE
PHILIPPINES"
Section 1. Section one of Republic Act Numbered Eight hundred
fifty-two is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the
Constitution, as well as 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 Philippines Islands, and for
other purposes"; Act Numbered Three thousand nine hundred and
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, there is hereby granted to
Segundo Santos and Sons, a franchise to construct, maintain and
operate, for commercial purposes and in the public interests, radio
broadcasting stations in the Philippines: provided, that this franchise
shall be for a period of twenty-five years and shall be void unless the
construction of at least one radio broadcasting station be finished
within one and a half years from the approval of said franchise:
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 public 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 of obscene or indecent language or
speech, 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."
Sec. 2. The title of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"An Act granting Segundo Santos and Sons of Legaspi City a franchise to
construct, maintain and operate radio broadcasting stations in the
Philippines."
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 19, 1965
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