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REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2380 - AN ACT
GRANTING THE BENGUET CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO
CONSTRUCT, ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED
POINT-TO-POINT, AERONAUTICAL, COASTAL, 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 the Benguet Consolidated
Mining Company a temporary permit to construct, establish, maintain and
operate in 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, aeronautical, coastal,
land based and land mobile radio stations for the reception and
transmission of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony,
each to be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and a radio
receiving apparatus.cralaw Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said radio stations or any of them on lands of the public domain upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe.cralaw
Sec. 3. This temporary permit shall continue to
be in force during the time that the Government has not established
similar service at the places selected by the grantee, and is granted
upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the
construction of at least one of the said stations be begun within one
year from the date of approval of this Act and be completed within two
years from said date. Sec. 5. This temporary permit shall not take effect until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequencies, and wave lengths to be used thereunder, but the grantee may use the international distress frequency of five hundred kilocycles and the high distress frequency of eight thousand two hundred eighty kilocycles whenever necessary.cralaw Sec. 6. No fees are chargeable, as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only.cralaw Sec. 7. The grantee shall so construct and operate its radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.cralaw Sec. 8. The grantee shall hold the National, provincial 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 radio stations.cralaw Sec. 9. The grantee shall not lease, transfer, grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this temporary permit, nor the rights or privileges acquired thereunder to any person, natural or juridical, nor merge with any other person, without the approval of the Congress of the Philippines first had. Any person, natural or juridical, 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 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 has been originally granted to such person.cralaw
Section 10. A special right is hereby reserved to
the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public
peril, emergency, calamity or disaster to cause the closing of the
grantee's radio stations or to authorized the temporary use or
possession thereof by any department of the Government upon payment of
just compensation.
Section 12. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.cralaw Approved: June 20, 1959 |
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