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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3000
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3000 - AN ACT GRANTING C. ALCANTARA & SONS, A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT RADIOTELEPHONE STATIONS FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF WIRELESS MESSAGES TO AND FROM SAID STATIONS




Section 1.    The C. Alcantara & Sons, its successors or assigns, is hereby granted a temporary permit to establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations in Davao City, and in other parts of the Philippines where it maintains or may hereafter maintain offices or establishments for the operation of its logging and sawmill business, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, for the transmission and reception of wireless messages to and from said stations, including its vehicles and boats.

Sec. 2.    The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the construction, maintenance and operation of said private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations on any land of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.

Sec. 3.    The temporary permit granted under this Act shall continue to be in force while the Government has not established similar service at places hereinafter stated, and subject to the condition that the grantee, its successors or assigns, shall start operation under said temporary permit within three years from the date of the approval of this Act.  

Sec. 4.    The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines, it being understood that the temporary permit granted under this Act merely secures the right of the grantee to establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations at the places hereinabove stated for no other purposes than to promote, protect and subserve the interests of the grantee in the conduct of its logging and sawmill business.

Sec. 5.    The actual operation of said private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations shall not commence until after the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequencies and wave lengths to be used thereunder.

Sec. 6.    No fees shall be charged by the grantee as the radiotelephone stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communication regarding the grantee's business only.

Sec. 7.    The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall so construct and operate such stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.

Sec. 8.    The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial, city and municipal governments of the Republic 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 its radiotelephone stations.

Sec. 9.    The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or which may hereafter be enacted.

Section 10.    A special right is hereby 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 the grantee's radiotelephone station or stations or to authorize the use or possession thereof by any department of the Government without compensation to the grantee for the use of said stations during the continuance of the national emergency.  

Section 11.    The temporary permit granted under this Act shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when the public interest so requires, and shall not be interpreted as an exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided for.

Section 12.    This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Enacted without Executive Approval, June 19, 1960.

 said property together with all rights and privileges now enjoyed by said provincial government, at the price agreed by the grantee and the provincial board. In case of disagreement as to the purchase price, the Public Service Commission is authorized to act as referee and to determine the reasonable price at which said property shall be conveyed after hearing both parties, and its decision shall be final.

Section 19.    It is expressly provided that in the event that the Philippine Government should desire to maintain and operate for itself the system and enterprise herein authorized, the grantee shall surrender his franchise and will turn over to the Government said system and all serviceable equipment therein, at cost, less reasonable depreciation.  

Sec. 20.    This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Enacted without Executive approval, June 19, 1960.

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