REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5044 - AN ACT TO
AMEND REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FORTY-ONE HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR, ENTITLED "AN
ACT GRANTING PIO ROMEO GARCIA A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND
OPERATE ICE PLANTS AND COLD STORAGE, AND TO DISTRIBUTE AND SELL ICE SO
MANUFACTURED AND FURNISH COLD STORAGE IN THE CITIES OF PASAY, CALOOCAN,
QUEZON AND MANILA AND IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF MALABON, NAVOTAS, SAN
JUAN, MANDALUYONG, MAKATI, AND PARAÑAQUE, ALL IN THE PROVINCE OF
RIZAL"
Section 1.
The title of Republic Act Numbered Forty-one hundred
ninety-four is hereby amended to read as follows:
"An Act granting Pio Romeo Garcia a franchise to construct, maintain
and operate ice plants and cold storage, to distribute and sell ice so
manufactured and furnish cold storage in the cities of Pasay, Caloocan,
Quezon and Manila and in the provinces of Rizal, Laguna, Batangas, and
Quezon."
Sec. 2. Section one of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. Subject to the conditions imposed by this
Act, there is granted to Pio Romeo Garcia, his successors or assigns,
for a period of twenty-five years after the approval of this Act, the
right, privilege, and authority to construct, maintain and operate ice
plants and cold storage in the cities of Pasay, Caloocan, Manila, and
Quezon and in the provinces of Rizal, Laguna, Batangas and Quezon, for
the purpose of manufacturing ice and furnishing cold storage, and to
sell and distribute the ice so manufactured and render cold storage
service and facilities in the said cities and provinces, and to collect
a schedule of rates, prices and charges for the ice so manufactured,
distributed and sold, and for the cold storage service furnished which
schedule of rates, prices and charges shall at all times be subject to
regulation by the Public Service Commission."
Sec. 3. Section two of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 2. The grantee shall install and maintain an
ice plant or ice plants and cold storage in any or some of all of the
cities and provinces enumerated in Section one hereof: Provided,
however, That the total daily production capacity of all the ice plants
so installed and maintained shall not exceed two thousand tons and that
the total capacity of all the cold storage so installed and maintained
shall not exceed ten thousand tons."
Sec. 4. Section four of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 4. If the grantee shall not commence the
manufacture of ice within five years from the approval of this
amendatory Act, unless prevented by an act of God, or force majeure,
martial law, riot, civil commotion, usurpation by a military power or
any other cause beyond the grantee's control this franchise shall
become null and void."
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 17, 1967.
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