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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5008 - AN ACT
GRANTING PHILIPPINE SEEDS, INC. A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT,
MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, COASTAL, LAND-BASED,
AERONAUTICAL AND LAND-MOBILE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND
TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES Section 1. There is hereby granted to Philippine Seeds, Inc., a temporary permit to construct, establish, maintain and operate in the Philippines, and/or at such places as the grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point. coastal, land based, aeronautical and land mobile radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each to be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus. Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said radio stations or any of them on lands of the public domain upon such terms and conditions 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 and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction of at least one of the said stations be begun within one year from the date of approval of this Act and be completed within two years from said date. Sec. 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 this temporary permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, establish, maintain and operate said radio stations at such places within the Philippines as the interest of the grantee and of its trade and business may justify. Sec. 5. This temporary permit shall not take effect until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequencies and wavelengths to be used thereunder, but the grantee may use the international distress frequency of eight thousand two hundred eighty kilocycles whenever necessary. Sec. 6. No fees are chargeable as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only. Sec. 7. The grantee 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 shall hold the national, provincial 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 shall not lease, transfer,
grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this temporary permit, or the
rights or privileges acquired thereunder to any persons, natural or
juridical, nor merge with any other persons, without the approval of
the Congress of the Philippines first had. Any person, natural or
juridical, 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 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 such
persons. Enacted without Executive
approval, June 17, 1967. |
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