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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5443 - AN
ACT GRANTING THE GALAXY LINES, INC. A FRANCHISE TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN
AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, PRIVATE COASTAL, LAND-BASED
AND LAND MOBILE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF
WIRELESS MESSAGES TO AND FROM SAID STATIONS Section 1. The Galaxy Lines, Inc. is hereby granted a franchise to establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point, private coastal, land-based and land-mobile radio stations in Manila as well as in all such places within the Philippines where it operates its business and/or the interest of its trade and business activities justify, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, for the transmission and reception of wireless messages on radiotelegraph or radiotelephone to and from said stations, each station to be provided with a radio transmitting and a radio receiving apparatus. Sec. 2. This franchise shall continue to be in
force for a period of twenty-five years and is granted upon the express
condition that the same shall be void unless the construction or
installation of at least one station be begun within two years from the
date of approval of this Act and be completed within four years from
said date. Sec. 3. 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 franchise is to secure to the grantee the right to establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point, private coastal, land-based and land-mobile radio stations at the places hereinabove stated for no other purpose than to promote, protect and subserve the trade and business interests of the grantee. Sec. 4. No fees shall be charged by the grantee as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only. Sec. 5. The grantee shall so construct and operate its stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines. Sec. 6. The grantee is authorized to operate its radio stations on the frequency and/or frequencies that may be assigned to it by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications. Sec. 7. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, calamity, or disaster to cause the closing of the grantee's radio stations or to authorize the temporary use or possession thereof by any department of the government upon just compensation. Sec. 8. This franchise shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when the public interest so requires, and shall not be interpreted as an exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided. Sec. 9. The grantee shall be subject to the
corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or which may hereafter
be enacted. Enacted without Executive
approval, September 9, 1968. |
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