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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5766 - AN
ACT GRANTING A.C.D., INC., A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND
MAINTAIN PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, PRIVATE COASTAL, PRIVATE
AERONAUTICAL AND LAND-BASED AND LAND-MOBILE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE
RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE
PHILIPPINES Section 1. There is hereby granted to A.C.D., Inc., its successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, operate and maintain 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, private coastal; and private aeronautical radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages by radio telegraph or radio telephone, each station 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 enforce during the time that the Government has not established similar service at the places selected by the grantee, but not exceeding twenty-five years and is granted upon the express 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 telecommunications in the Philippines without further consent 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 as the interest of the grantee 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 franchise and wave-lengths to be used therefor, but the grantee may use the international distress frequency of five hundred eighty kilocycles whenever necessary. Sec. 6. No fees shall be charge 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 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, injuries, whether to property or to persons, cause 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, nor the
merge with any other persons, without the approval of the Congress of
the Philippines first had. Any person, natural or judicial, to which
this temporary permit may be sold, transferred or assigned, shall be
subject to all conditions, limitations and restriction 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 21, 1969. |
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