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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8106
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8106 - AN ACT GRANTING THE CACERES BROADCASTING CORPORATION A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, INSTALL, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING STATIONS IN THE ISLAND OF LUZON AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.




Section 1.    Nature and Scope of Franchise. — Subject to the provisions of the Constitutions, there is hereby granted to the Caceres Broadcasting Corporation, its successors or assigns, hereunder referred to as the grantee, a franchise to construct, install, operate and maintain for commercial purposes and in the public interest radio and television broadcasting stations in the island of Luzon with the corresponding auxiliary, special broadcast and other program and distribution services and relay stations, and to install radio communication facilities for the grantee's private use its broadcast services.

Sec. 2.    Manner of Operation of Stations of Facilities. — The stations or facilities of the grantee shall be constructed and operated in a manner that will at most result only in the minimum interference on the wavelengths or frequencies of the other existing stations or stations which may be established by law without in any way diminishing its own right to use its selected wavelengths or frequencies and the quality or transmission or reception thereon as of transmission or reception thereon as should maximize rendition of the grantee's services and/or the availability thereof.

Sec. 3.    Prior Approval of the National Telecommunications Commission. — The grantee shall secure from the National Telecommunications Commission the appropriate permits and licenses for its stations and shall not use any frequency in the radio/television spectrum without having been authorized by the Commission.

Sec. 4.    Responsibility to the Public. — The grantee shall provide adequate public service time to enable the government, through the said broadcasting stations, to reach the population on important public issues; provide at all times sound and balanced programming; promote public participation such as in community programming; assist in the functions of public information and education; conform to the ethics of honest enterprises; and not use its stations for the broadcasting of obscene and indecent language, speech, act or scene, or for the dissemination of deliberately false information or willful misrepresentation to the detriment of the public interest, or to incite, encourage, or assist in subversive or treasonable acts.

Sec. 5.    Rights of Government. — A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines, in times of rebellion, public peril, calamity, emergency, disaster or disturbance of peace and order to temporarily take over and operate the stations of the grantee, to temporarily suspend the operation of any station in the interest of public safety, security, and public welfare, or to authorize the temporary use and operation thereof by any agency of the government, upon due compensation to the grantee, for the use of said stations during the period when they shall be so operated.

Sec. 6.    Term of Franchise. — This franchise be for a term of Twenty-five (25) years from the date of effectivity of this Act unless sooner revoked or cancelled. In the event the grantee fails to operate continuously for two (2) years, this franchise shall be deemed ipso facto revoked.

Sec. 7.    Acceptance and Compliance. — Acceptance of this franchise shall be given in writing within sixty (60) days after approval of his Act. Upon giving such acceptance, the grantee shall exercise the privileges granted under this Act. Non-acceptance shall render the franchise void.

Sec. 8.    Public Ownership. — In compliance with the constitutional mandate to democratize ownership of public utilities, the herein grantee shall make public offering through the stock exchanges of at least thirty percent (30%) of his common stock within a period of three (3) years from the date of effectivity of this Act: provided, that no single person or entity shall be allowed to own more than five percent (5%) of the stock offerings.

Sec. 9.    Tax Provisions. — The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be liable to pay the same taxes on their real estate, building and personal property exclusive of this franchise as other persons or corporations are now or hereafter may be required by law to pay. In addition thereto, the grantee, its successors or assigns, shall pay a franchise tax at such percentage as may be prescribed by law on all gross receipts of the radio/television business transacted under this franchise by the grantee, its successors or assigns: provided, that the grantee, its successors or assigns, shall continue to be liable for income taxes payable under Title II of the National Internal Revenue Code pursuant to Sec. 2 of Executive Order No. 72 unless the latter enactment is amended or repealed, in which case the amendment or repeal shall be applicable thereto.

The grantee shall file the return with and pay the tax due thereon to the Commissioner on Internal Revenue or his duly authorized representative in accordance with the National Internal Revenue Code and the return shall be subject to audit by the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

Sec. 10.    Self-regulation by and undertaking of Grantee. — The grantee shall not require any prior censorship in any speech, play, act or scene, or other matter to be broadcast or telecast from its station: provided, that the grantee, during any broadcast or telecast, may cut off from the air any speech, play, act or scene, or other matter being broadcast or telecast if the tendency thereof is to propose and/or incite treason, rebellion or sedition, or the language used therein is indecent or immoral and willful failure to do so shall constitute a valid cause for the cancellation of this franchise.

Sec. 11.    Warranty in Favor of National and Local Governments. — The grantee shall hold the national, provincial, and municipal governments of the Philippines free 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. 12.    Sale, Lease, Transfer, Usufruct, etc. — The grantee shall not lease, transfer, grant the usufruct of, sell nor assign this franchise or the rights and privileges acquired thereunder to any person, firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity without the prior approval of the Congress of the Philippines. Any person or entity to which this franchise is sold, transferred or assigned shall be subject to all the same conditions, terms, restrictions and limitations of this Act.

Sec. 13.    Reportorial Requirement. — The grantee shall submit an annual report to the Congress of the Philippines on its compliance with the terms and conditions of the franchise and on its operations within sixty (60) days from the end of every year.

Sec. 14.    Separability Clause. — If any of the sections or provisions of this Act is held invalid, all the other provisions not affected thereby shall remain valid.

Sec. 15.    Repealability and Non-exclusivity Clause. — This franchise shall be subject to amendment, alteration or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when the public interest so requires and shall not be interpreted as an exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided for.

Sec. 16.    General Broadcast Policy. — The grantee shall comply with and be subject to the provisions of a general broadcast policy law which Congress may hereafter enact.

Sec. 17.    Effectivity Clause. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days from the date of its publication in at least two (2) newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines.

(Note: Lapsed into law on July 09, 1995, without the signature of the President, in accordance with Article VI, Sec. 27 (1) of the Constitution.)

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