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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4473 - AN ACT
GRANTING THE REPUBLIC GLASS CORPORATION, INC., A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO
CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT COASTAL
AND LAND-BASED RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF
RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES Section 1. There is hereby granted to the Republic Glass Corporation, its successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, maintain and operate in the Philippines, at such places as the said Company may select, subject to the approval of the Department Secretary under whose jurisdiction the Radio Control Division is functioning, or any competent authority who is or shall be authorized to give such approval, such private fixed point-to-point coastal and land-based radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to consist of radio transmitting and radio receiving apparatus. Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point coastal and land-based radio stations or any of them in the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe. Sec. 3. This temporary permit shall continue to be in force during the time that the Government has not established similar service at the places selected by the grantee, but not exceeding twenty-five years and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the grantee shall start operation of said stations within one and one-half years from the date of approval of this Act. Sec. 4. The grantee shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without further special assent of the Congress of the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, install, establish and operate private fixed point-to-point coastal and land-based radio stations in places within the Philippines as the interest of the company and its trade and business may justify. Sec. 5. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, emergency, or disturbance of peace and order, to cause the closing of the station or stations, or to authorized the temporary use or possession thereof by any department of the Government upon payment of just compensation. Sec. 6. No fees shall be charged by the grantee as the radio station that may be established by virtue of this Act, shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only. Sec. 7. 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. Sec. 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial, city and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless 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. Sec. 9. The grantee, its successors or assigns,
shall be subject to the Corporation Law of the Philippines now existing
or hereafter enacted. Approved: June 19, 1965 |
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