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REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1846 - AN ACT
GRANTING THE HERCULES LUMBER COMPANY, INCORPORATED, A TEMPORARY PERMIT
TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT
RADIOTELEPHONE STATIONS FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF WIRELESS
MESSAGES TO AND FROM SAID STATIONS |
Section 1. The
Hercules Lumber Company, Incorporated, its successors or assigns, is
hereby granted a temporary permit to establish, maintain and operate
private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations in the
Municipality of Alicia, Province of Zamboanga del Sur and in other
parts of the Philippines where it operates its lumber business, subject
to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications,
for the transmission and reception of wireless messages to and from
these stations, including its tugboats. Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the construction, maintenance, and operation of said private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations on any land of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.cralaw Sec. 3. The temporary permit granted under this Act shall continue to be in force while the Government has not established similar service at places hereinabove stated, and subject to the condition that the grantee, its successors or assigns, shall start operation under said permit within one and half years from the date of the approval of this Act.cralaw Sec. 4. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunication in the Philippines, it being understood that the temporary permit granted under this Act merely secures the right of the grantee to establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations at the places hereinabove stated for no other purpose than to promote, protect, and subserve the trade and business interests of the grantee as a lumber company.cralaw Sec. 5. The actual operation of said private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations shall not commence until after the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequencies and wave lengths to be used thereunder.cralaw Sec. 6. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall so construct and operate such stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.cralaw Sec. 7. 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 accidents or injuries whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radiotelephone stations.cralaw
Sec. 8. The grantee shall not lease, transfer,
grant the usufruct of, sell or assigns this temporary permit, nor 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 temporary permit 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 temporary
permit is sold, transferred, or assigned shall be subject to all
conditions, terms, restrictions and limitations of this temporary
permit as fully and completely and to the same extent as if the
temporary permit had been originally granted to the said person, firm,
company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity. Section 10. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, rebellion, public peril, emergency, calamity, disaster or disturbance of peace or order to cause the closing of the grantee's radiotelephone stations or to authorize the temporary use and operation thereof by any department of the Government upon payment of just compensation.cralaw Section 11. The temporary permit granted under this Act 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.cralaw
Section 12. The grantee shall file a bond in the
amount of fifty thousand pesos to guarantee full compliance and
fulfillment of the conditions under which this temporary permit is
granted. Approved: June 22, 1957 |
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