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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5255 - AN
ACT GRANTING ALBERTO T. LLORENTE AND SONS A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT,
INSTALL, ESTABLISH AND OPERATE RADIO BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION
STATIONS IN THE VISAYAS AND MINDANAO Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, and provisions not inconsistent herewith 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 other 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 Alberto T. Llorente and Sons, his successors or assigns, the right and privilege of constructing, installing, establishing and operating in the Visayas and Mindanao, radio broadcasting and television stations. Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit construction of said stations or any of them on any land of the public domain upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. Sec. 3. This franchise shall continue for a period of twenty-five years from the date of the first of said stations shall be placed in operation, and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction of at least one 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. This franchise shall not take effect nor shall any power thereon be exercised by the grantee until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequencies and the wave lengths to be used, and issued to the grantee a license for such use. Sec. 5. The stations of the grantee shall be so constructed and the wave lengths so elected as to avoid interference with existing stations and to permit the expansion of the grantee's services. Sec. 6. After the grantee has been found guilty by a competent court for violating the following rules: (1) For using its frequency or frequencies and wave lengths to impair electrical communications or to violate otherwise the laws of the Philippine Republic; (2) That, its frequencies or wave lengths are being used for other purpose other than those of the grantee or are being used against the public interest of the Republic of the Philippines, the Secretary of Public Works and Communications on reasonable notice to the grantee, may at any time change or modify the frequency allotted to such station or stations violating the rules and regulations aforementioned. Sec. 7. A special right is reserved to the President of the Republic of the Philippines in time of war, rebellion, public peril, calamity, disaster or disturbance of peace and order to cause the closing of the said stations or to authorize the temporary use and operation thereof by any department of the government upon payment of just compensation to the grantee for the use of said stations during the period when they shall be so operated. 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 of the grantee's stations. Sec. 9. No private property shall be taken for any
purpose by the grantee without proper condemnation proceedings and just
compensation paid thereof or tendered therefor, and any authority to
take or occupy land contained herein shall not apply to the taking, use
or occupation of any land except such as is required for the actual
necessary purposes for which this franchise is granted. Enacted without Executive
approval, June 15, 1968. |
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