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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6419 - AN ACT
GRANTING PATRICIO MEDALLA A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND
MAINTAIN AN ICE PLANT AND COLD STORAGE IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF STO.
TOMAS, PROVINCE OF BATANGAS, AND TO SELL ICE AND SUPPLY COLD STORAGE IN
THE WHOLE PROVINCE OF BATANGAS Section 1. Subject to the conditions imposed by this Act, there is hereby granted Patricio Medalla, hereinafter referred to as the grantee, a franchise to construct, operate and maintain an ice plant and cold storage in the Municipality of Sto. Tomas, Province of Batangas, for the manufacture and distribution of ice, to supply cold storage in the whole Province of Batangas, and to charge and collect a schedule of prices and rates for the ice and cold storage so furnished, which schedule of prices and rates shall, at all times, be subject to regulation by the Public Service Commissions or its legal successor. Sec. 2. The grantee shall manufacture and supply ice up to the limit of the capacity of his plant, said limit to be determined by the Public Service Commission or his legal successor in such certificate of convenience and public necessity as may be issued by it as prescribed by Section four hereof. Sec. 3. All apparatus and appurtenances to be used by the grantee shall be modern, safe and first class in every respect, and the grantee shall, whenever the Public Service Commission shall determine that public interest reasonably requires it, change or alter any of his apparatus and appurtenances at grantee's expense. Sec. 4. This franchise shall continue for a period of twenty-five years from the date said plant and cold storage shall be placed in operation and shall commence the manufacture and distribution of ice whenever it is established, and is made subject to the express condition that the same shall be null and void unless the construction of said plant and cold storage be begun within one year from the date of approval of this Act and completed within three years from said date, except when prevented by an act of God, force majeure, martial law, riot, civil commotion, usurpation by military power or any other cause beyond the grantee's control. Sec. 5. After the grantee's compliance with the
requirements of the next preceding section, the Public Service
Commission or its legal successor by proper orders or writ, shall
authorize the construction of necessary work for the purpose of this
franchise within reasonable time to be determined by the said
Commission. Sec. 6. The books, records and accounts of the grantee shall always be open to the inspection of the municipal treasurer of the town where the ice plant and cold storage is established, of his authorized representatives, and it shall be the duty of the grantee to submit to the said municipal treasurer quarterly reports in quadruplicate showing the gross receipts for the quarter past, one copy of which shall be forwarded by the said treasurer to the Auditor General, who shall keep the same on file. Sec. 7. The grantee, with the approval of the
Congress of the Philippines first had, may sell, lease, grant, convey,
assign, give in usufruct, or transfer the franchise and all property
rights acquired thereunder to any individual, co-partnership, private,
public or quasi-public association, corporation, or joint stock company
competent to operate the business hereby authorized, but transfer of
title to the franchise or any right of ownership or interest acquired
under such sale, lease, grant, conveyance, assignment, gift in
usufruct, or transfer shall not be effective even after such approval
shall have been obtained, until there shall be filed in the office of
the Public Service Commission or its legal successor, an agreement in
writing by which the individual, co-partnership, private, public or
quasi-public association, corporation, or joint stock company in whose
favor such sale, assignment, gift in usufruct, or transfer is made,
shall be firmly bound to comply with all the terms and conditions
imposed upon the grantee by his franchise thereof issued by the Public
Service Commission or its legal successor, and to accept the same,
subject to all existing terms and conditions. Sec. 8. This franchise is granted subject to the provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six, as amended, and with the understanding and upon the condition that it shall be subject to amendment, alteration or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when public interest so requires. Sec. 9. In consideration of the franchise and
rights hereby granted, the grantee shall pay a franchise tax equal to
five per centum of the gross earnings under this franchise, three per
centum of which shall accrue to the national government and two per
centum to the municipality where the franchise is being operated.
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