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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5800 - AN
ACT GRANTING SOUTHERN LEYTE ENTERPRISES, INC., A FRANCHISE TO
CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE RADIO STATIONS IN THE PROVINCE OF
SOUTHERN LEYTE Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution as well as of 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, Southern Leyte Enterprises, Inc. is hereby granted a franchise to construct, maintain and operate radio broadcasting stations in the Province of Southern Leyte for educational, scientific, cultural and commercial purposes and in the public interest. 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 at least one radio broadcasting stations be begun within one year 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 provide adequate public service time to enable the Government, through said stations, to reach the population on important 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 dissemination of deliberately false information or willful misrepresentation, or to the detriment of the public health and morals, or to incite, encourage or assist in subversive or treasonable acts. Sec. 4. The grantee's radio broadcasting stations shall not be put in actual operation until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequencies and wave lengths to be used under this franchise and issued to the grantee license for such use. Sec. 5. The radio broadcasting stations of the grantee shall be so constructed and operated and the wave lengths so selected as to avoid interference with existing radio stations and to permit the expansion of the grantee's services. Sec. 6. A special right is reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, rebellion, public peril, calamity, disaster or disturbances of peace and 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. 7. The grantee shall be liable to pay the same taxes unless exempted therefrom, on its real estate, building and personal property, exclusive of the franchise, as other persons or corporations are now or may hereafter be required by law to pay. It shall be liable further to pay all other taxes as provided in the National Internal Revenue Code by reason of this franchise. Sec. 8. Acceptance of this franchise shall be given in writing by the grantee within six months after the approval of this Act. When so accepted, the grantee shall be empowered to exercise the privileges granted thereby. Sec. 9. The grantee shall file a bond in the
amount of ten thousand pesos to guarantee the full compliance and
fulfillment of the conditions under which this franchise is granted. If
after two years from the date of acceptance of this franchise, the
grantee shall have fulfilled said conditions 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 21, 1969. |
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