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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5108 - AN ACT
GRANTING MARIANO E. ZAFRA A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, INSTALL, MAINTAIN
AND OPERATE RADIO STATIONS FOR DOMESTIC AND TRANSOCEANIC
TELECOMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution and the provisions of Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred and forty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications in the Philippines Islands, and for other purposes", Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred forty-six, known as the Public Service Act, and their amendments, and other applicable laws, there is granted to Mariano E. Zafra, his successors or assigns, and hereunder referred to as the "grantee", the right and privilege of constructing, installing, establishing and operating in the Philippines, for commercial purposes and in the public interest, at such places as Mariano E. Zafra may select and the Secretary of Public Works and Communications may approve, radio stations for the reception and transmission of messages on radio stations in the foreign and domestic public fixed point-to-point and public base, aeronautical and land-mobile stations, including coastal marine service with the corresponding relay stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy and/or radiotelephone, radioteletype, radiophoto, facsimile, music, pictures, advertisement and such other types of emission from or to foreign countries and within the Philippines and with vessels at sea and aircraft in the air, irrespective of whether such vessels and aircraft are within or without the Philippines; to provide radio communication services and equipment to private firms, companies and corporations within their respective internal framework and/or to communicate from within with the grantee's station or stations; and the right and privilege, which shall continue to be in force during the time that the Government has not established similar service at the places selected by the grantee. Sec. 2. A special right is reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, rebellion, public peril, calamity, disaster, or disturbance of peace or order, to take over and operate the 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. 3. In the event of any competing individual, partnership, or corporation receiving from the Congress a similar franchise in which there shall be any term or terms more favorable than those herein granted or tending to place the herein grantee at any disadvantage, then such term or terms shall ipso facto become a part of the terms hereof and shall operate equally in favor of the grantee as in the case of said competing individual, partnership, or corporation. Sec. 4. (a) The grantee shall be liable to pay
the same taxes on its real estate, buildings and personal property, as
other persons or corporations are or hereafter may be required by law
to pay. Sec. 5. The grantee shall file a bond in the amount of fifty thousand pesos to guarantee the full compliance and fulfillment of the conditions under which this franchise is granted. If after six years from the date of approval of this Act, the grantee shall have fulfilled such conditions, or as soon as thereafter as the grantee shall have fulfilled the same, the bond aforesaid shall be cancelled by the Government. Sec. 6. The grantee shall not sell, convey or otherwise transfer to any person, corporation, association or partnership this franchise without the previous approval of Congress. Sec. 7. In the event the Government should desire to maintain and operate for itself any or all of 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. 8. That President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the construction of said stations or any of them on any land of the public domain upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. Sec. 9. The stations of the grantee shall be so
constructed and operated and the wave lengths so selected as to avoid
interference with existing stations and to permit the expansion of the
grantee's services. Enacted without Executive
approval, June 17, 1967. |
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