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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5811 - AN
ACT GRANTING FAUSTINO N. DY A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND
MAINTAIN RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS IN THE PROVINCE OF ISABELA Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, as well as of Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred forty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes;" Act Numbered Three thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven, known as the Radio Broadcasting Law; Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred forty-six, known as the Public Service Act, and their amendments, subject to the operations of existing laws not inconsistent with this Act, Faustino N. Dy, his successors and assigns, is hereby granted a franchise to construct, operate and maintain radio broadcasting stations in the Province of Isabela. Sec. 2. This franchise shall continue for a period of twenty-five years from the date the said stations shall be put in operation, and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction of said stations be begun within two years from the date of approval of this Act and be complied within three years from said date. Sec. 3. This franchise is likewise made upon the express condition that the grantee, his successors and assigns, shall contribute to the public welfare; shall assist in the functions of public information and education; shall conform to the ethics of honest enterprise; and shall not use these stations for the dissemination of deliberately false information or willful misrepresentation, or to the detriment of the public health, or to incite, encourage or assist in subversive or treasonable acts. Sec. 4. The grantee's radio broadcasting stations shall not be put in actual operation until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequency and wave lengths to be used under this franchise and issued to the grantee a license for such use. Sec. 5. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril or other national emergency and when public safety requires, to cause the closing of the grantee's radio broadcasting stations or to authorize the use or possession thereof by any department of the Government without compensation to the grantee, his successors and assigns, for the use of said stations during the continuance of the national emergency. Sec. 6. The grantee, his successors and assigns,
shall be liable to pay the same taxes, unless exempted therefrom, on
his real estate, buildings and personal property, exclusive of the
franchise, as other persons or corporations which are now or hereafter
may be required by law to pay. Sec. 7. The grantee, his successors or assigns, 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 or operation of the stations of the grantee. Sec. 8. The franchise hereby granted shall be subject to amendment, alteration or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when the public interest so requires. Sec. 9. As a condition to the granting of this
franchise, the grantee, his successors and assigns, shall execute a
bond in favor of the Government of the Philippines in the sum of five
thousand pesos, in such form and with sureties satisfactory to the
Secretary of Public Works and Communications, conditioned upon the
faithful performance of the grantee's obligations hereunder during the
first three years of the life of this franchise. If after three years
from the date of acceptance of this franchise, the grantee, his
successors and assigns, shall have fulfilled said obligations, or as
soon thereafter as the grantee, his successors and assigns, shall have
fulfilled the same, the bond aforesaid shall be cancelled by the
Secretary of Public Works and Communications. Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969. |
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