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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5352 - AN
ACT GRANTING EXAMINER, INCORPORATED A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, INSTALL,
MAINTAIN AND OPERATE RADIO BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION STATIONS IN THE
PROVINCES OF LEYTE AND SAMAR 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 Philippine 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 Examiner, Incorporated, its successors or assigns, and hereunder referred to as the "grantee" the right and privilege of constructing, installing, establishing and operating in the Provinces of Leyte and Samar, for commercial purposes and in the public interest, at those places as Examiner, Incorporated, may select and the Secretary of Public Works and Communications may approve, radio broadcasting and television stations in Leyte and Samar: Provided, That the grantee shall provide adequate public service time to enable the Government, through the said radio broadcasting and television stations, to reach the people 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 such stations for the broadcasting of obscene or indecent language or speech, or for the dissemination of deliberately false information or willful misrepresentation, or to the detriment of public health, or to incite, encourage or assist in subversive or treasonable acts. 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 and order, to take over and operate thereof, or by any department of the Government without compensating the grantee for the 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 now 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, grantee shall have fulfilled such conditions, or as soon 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 previous approval of the 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. The President of the Philippines shall have the power of 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 15, 1968. |
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