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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6117 - AN
ACT GRANTING KALAYAAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., A FRANCHISE TO
CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS IN THE
PHILIPPINES 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 ninety-seven, known as the Radio Broadcasting Law; Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred forty-six, known as the Public Service Act, and their amendments, and other applicable laws, not inconsistent with this Act, Kalayaan Publishing Company, Inc., hereinafter referred to as the grantee, is hereby granted a franchise to construct, operate and maintain radio broadcasting stations in the Philippines. Sec. 2. This franchise shall continue for a period of twenty-five years from the date the station shall be put in operation, and is granted upon the express condition that same shall be void unless the construction of the stations be begun within six months from the date of the approval of this Act and completed within two years from such date. Sec. 3. This franchise is likewise made upon the express condition that the grantee 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 the 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 after the Secretary of Public Works and Communications has allotted to the grantee the frequency and wave length to be used under this franchise and issued to the grantee a license for such use. Sec. 5. A special right is reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, rebellion, public peril, or other national emergency and when public safety requires, to cause the closing of said stations or to authorize the use and operation thereof by any department of the Government without compensating the grantee for the use of said stations during the continuance of the national emergency. Sec. 6. In consideration of this franchise the grantee shall pay a tax equivalent to five per cent of its gross income. Sec. 7. The grantee shall hold the national, provincial and municipal governments of the Philippines free 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 of the granting of this
franchise, the grantee shall execute a bond in favor of the Government
of the Philippines, in the sum of fifty thousand pesos, in 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.f, after three years from the date of acceptance
of this franchise, the grantee shall have fulfilled said obligations,
or as soon thereafter as the grantee shall have fulfilled the same, the
bond aforesaid shall be cancelled by the Secretary of Public Works and
Communications. Enacted without Executive
approval, August 4, 1969. |
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