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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4502 - AN ACT
GRANTING GUZMAN BROADCASTING SYSTEM A PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND
OPERATE RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS AND STATIONS FOR TELEVISION IN
CENTRAL AND NORTHERN LUZON Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, Guzman Broadcasting System is hereby granted a permit which shall continue in force during the time that the Government has not established similar service at the places selected by the grantee, not exceeding twenty-five years, to construct, maintain and operate, for commercial purposes and in the public interest, radio broadcasting stations and stations for television in Central and Northern Luzon: provided, that this permit shall be void unless the construction of at least one radio broadcasting station or one television station is begun within two years from the date of approval of this Act, and is completed within four years from said date: provided, further, that the grantee shall provide adequate public service time to enable the Government, through the said radio broadcasting and television stations, to reach the population on important public issues; shall assist in the functions of public information and education; shall conform to the ethics of honest enterprise; and shall not use its stations for the broadcasting and/or telecasting of obscene or indecent language, speech, act or scene, or 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. 2. Such provisions of Act Numbered Thirty-eight hundred and forty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications in the Philippines Islands, and for the other purposes"; Act Numbered Thirty-nine hundred and ninety-seven, known as the Radio Broadcasting Law; Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six, known as the Public Service Act, and their amendments, as are applicable to radio broadcasting stations shall be applied, as far as practicable, to the television station referred to in Section one hereof. Sec. 3. 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 of its radio or television stations. Sec. 4. The grantee shall file a bond in the amount of fifty thousand pesos to guarantee the full compliance with and fulfillment of the conditions under which this permit is granted. Sec. 5. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, rebellion, public peril, emergency, calamity, disaster or disturbance of peace or order to cause the closing of said stations or to authorize the temporary use and operation thereof by any department of the Government without compensating the grantee for the use of said stations during the period when they shall be so operated. Sec. 6. The grantee shall be liable to pay the same taxes on its real estate, buildings and personal property, exclusive of the permit, as other persons or corporations are now or hereafter may be required by law to pay. Sec. 7. The grantee shall further be liable to pay all other taxes as provided in the National Internal Revenue Code by reason of this permit. Sec. 8. In the event the Government should desire to maintain and operate for itself any or all the stations herein authorized, the grantee shall turn over such station or stations to the Government with all the serviceable equipment therein, at cost, less reasonable depreciation. Sec. 9. The grantee shall not require any previous
censorship of any speech, play, act or scene or other matter to be
broadcast and/or telecast from its stations; but if any such speech,
play, act or scene or other matter should constitute a violation of the
law or infringement of private rights, the grantee shall be free from
any liability, civil or criminal, for such speech, play, act or scene
or other matter: provided, that the grantee, during any broadcast
and/or telecast, may cut off from the air the speech, play, act or
scene or other matter being broadcast and/or telecast, if the tendency
thereof is to propose and/or incite treason, rebellion or sedition, or
the language used therein or the theme thereof is indecent or immoral. Approved: June 19, 1965 |
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