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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5726 - AN
ACT GRANTING PYRAMID INSURANCE COMPANY, INC. A PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT,
ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT AND
LAND-BASED AND LAND-MOBILE RADIO STATIONS, WITH CORRESPONDING RELAY AND
LAND AND SEA MOBILE STATIONS, FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF
RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES Section 1. There is hereby to Pyramid Insurance Company, Inc., its successors or assigns, a permit to construct, establish, maintain, and operate in the Philippines, at such places as the said grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point and land based and land-mobile radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each stations to be provided, according to the needs, with a suitable radio receiving and radio transmitting apparatus which shall enable the station to communicate with land and sea mobile stations. Sec. 2. This permit shall continue to be in force as long as the Government has not established similar and identical services at the places selected by the grantee. This permit shall be null and void unless the construction of at least one of the stations allowed by this permit is begun within one year from the date of approval of this Act, and completed within two years from said date, unless the grantee is prevented from establishing such service by force majeure or other reasonable cause, as may be determined by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications. Sec. 3. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of any of the stations covered by this permit on lands or water of the public domain upon such term as he may prescribe. Sec. 4. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without special assent from Congress, it being expressly understood that the purpose of this permit is to secure to the grantee the right and privilege of constructing, establishing, maintaining and operating radio communications facilities for the private interest of the grantee. Sec. 5. Under this permit, the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall allot the frequencies and wave lengths to be used by the grantee, its successors and assigns; and the grantee shall not use frequencies and wave lengths other than those thus allotted; but the distress frequency of five hundred kilocycles and the high distress frequency of eight thousand two hundred eighty kilocycles may be utilized whenever necessary. Sec. 6. No fees shall be charged by the grantee as the radio stations that may be established under this permit shall be used and operated only in communications regarding its business only. Sec. 7. The grantee shall so construct and operate radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other stations maintained and operated within the Philippines. Sec. 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands and 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. A special right is hereby reserved to the
President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public
peril, emergency, 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 payment of
just compensation. Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969. |
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