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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5792 - AN
ACT GRANTING INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS' COOPERATIVE MARKETING ASSOCIATION,
INC. (IPC) A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, INSTALL, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN
PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, PRIVATE COASTAL AND PRIVATE LAND-BASED
RADIO STATIONS AND RADIO MOBILE UNITS FOR THE RECEPTION AND
TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES Section 1. There is hereby granted to Independent Producers' Cooperative Marketing Association, Inc., its successors or assigns, a franchise to construct, install, operate and maintain in the Philippines, or at such places as the grantee may select subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications under whose jurisdiction the Radio Control Division is functioning or any competent authority who is or shall be authorized now or in the future, such private fixed point-to-point, private coastal and private land based radio stations and radio mobile units for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus. Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point and private coastal radio stations or any of them on the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe. Sec. 3. This grant and concession shall continue for a period of twenty-five years from the date of said stations shall be placed in operation and is made upon the express conditions that the same shall be void unless the construction of said stations shall be begun within two years from the date of approval of this Act and be completed within four years from said date. Sec. 4. The grantee shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without further special assent of the Congress of the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this franchise is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, install, operate and maintain private fixed point-to-point and private coastal and private land based radio stations and radio mobile units in places within the Philippines as the interest of the corporation and of its trade and business may justify. Sec. 5. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, calamity or disaster to cause the closing of the station or stations or to authorize the temporary use or possession thereof by any department of the Government, upon just compensation. Sec. 6. No fees are chargeable as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communication regarding grantee's business only. Sec. 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall so construct or operate its radio 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 Philippines, harmless from all claims, accounts, demands or actions arising out of the accidents or injuries, whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations. Sec. 9. No private property shall be taken for any
purpose by the grantee of this franchise, its successors or assigns,
without proper condemnation proceedings and just compensation paid or
tendered therein, and any authority to take and occupy land contained
herein shall not authorize the taking, use, or occupation of any land
except such as is required for the actual necessary purpose for which
the franchise is granted. All lands or rights of use and occupation of
lands granted to the grantee, its successors or assigns, shall upon the
termination of this franchise or upon revocation, or repeal, revert to
the national, provincial or municipal government to which such land or
right to use and occupy belonged at the time of the grant thereof or
the right to use or occupy the same was conceded to the grantee, its
successors or assigns. Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969. |
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