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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5853 - AN
ACT GRANTING JOSE CONRADO BENITEZ A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND
MAINTAIN PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT AND LAND-BASED AND LAND-MOBILE
RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO
COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES Section 1. There is hereby granted to Jose Conrado Benitez, hereinafter referred to as the "grantee", a franchise to construct, operate and maintain within the Philippines at such places as the grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point and land-based and land-mobile radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages by radiotelegraph or radiotelephone, each station to be provided with radio transmitting apparatus and radio receiving apparatus. 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 made upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction or installation of said stations be begun within one year from the date of approval of this Act and completed within two years from said date. Sec. 3. The grantee, his successors or assigns, shall not engage in the domestic business 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, maintain and operate private radio stations in such places in the Philippines as the interest of the grantee may justify. Sec. 4. No fees shall be charged by the grantee as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only. Sec. 5. The grantee, his successor or assigns, shall so construct and operate his radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines. Sec. 6. The grantee, his successors assigns, shall hold the national, provincial, city and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands or actions arising out of accidents or injuries whether to property or persons, caused by the construction or operation of his radio stations. Sec. 7. The grantee, his successors or assigns, shall be subject to the corporation laws to the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted. Sec. 8. The grantee, his successors or assigns, is authorized to operate his radio stations in the medium frequency, high frequency, and very high frequency that may be assigned to it by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications. Sec. 9. The grantee shall not lease, transfer,
grant the usufruct of sell, or assign this franchise or the rights or
privileges acquired thereunder to any person, firm, company,
corporation or other commercial or legal entity, nor merge with any
other person, company or corporation organized for the same purpose,
without the approval of the Congress of the Philippines first had. Any
corporation to which this franchise may be sold, transferred, or
assigned shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines
now existing or hereafter enacted, and any person, firm, company,
corporation or other commercial or legal entity to which this franchise
is sold, transferred, or assigned shall be subject to all conditions,
terms, restrictions and limitations of this franchise as fully and
completely and to the same extent as if the franchise had been
originally granted to the said person, firm, company, corporation or
other commercial or legal entity. Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969. |
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