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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5343 - AN
ACT GRANTING THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT RADIO CORPORATION A FRANCHISE TO
CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS WITH SIDE
BAND IN THE PROVINCE OF QUEZON AND IN EASTERN LUZON PROVINCES,
PHILIPPINES Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, as well as 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, the Community Development Radio Corporation is hereby granted a franchise to construct, maintain and operate radio broadcasting station with side band in the Province of Quezon and in eastern Luzon provinces, Philippines. The grantee shall have the right to establish relay stations and private point-to-point communication systems at such places in the Philippines as it may consider necessary and convenient. Sec. 2. This franchise shall continue for a period of twenty-five years from the date the said stations shall be put in operation, and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction of said stations be begun within six months from the date of approval of this Act and be completed within two years from said 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 function of public information and education; shall conform to the ethics of honest enterprise; and shall not use its 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 the actual operation until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have 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 hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril or other national emergency and when public safety requires, to cause the closing of the grantee's radio 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. Sec. 6. The grantee shall be liable to pay the
same taxes, unless exempted therefrom, on its real estate, buildings,
and personal property, exclusive of the franchise, as other persons or
corporations are now or hereafter may be required by law to pay. Sec. 7. The grantee shall hold the national, provincial and municipal governments 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 the stations of the grantee. Sec. 8. The franchise hereby grantees 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 to 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. If 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, June 15, 1968. |
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