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REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1270 - AN
ACT TO AMEND SECTION THIRTEEN OF COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED
AND FORTY-SIX, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT, AS AMENDED BY
COMMONWEALTH ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR |
Section 1.
Section thirteen of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and
forty-six, otherwise known as the Public Service Act, as amended by
Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and fifty-four, is further
amended to read as follows: "Section 13.
(a) The Commission shall have jurisdiction, supervision, and control
over all public services and their franchises, equipment, and other
properties, and in the exercise of its authority, it shall have the
necessary powers and thed of the public force: Provided, That it shall
have no authority to require steamboats, motorships and steamship
lines, whether privately owned, or owned or operated by any Government
controlled corporation or instrumentality, to obtain certificates of
public convenience or to prescribe their definite routes or lines of
service;
"(b) The term
"public service" includes every person that now or hereafter may own,
operate, manage, or control in the Philippines, for hire or
compensation, with general or limited clientele, whether permanent,
occasional or accidental, and done for general business purposes, any
common carrier, railroad, street railway, traction railway, sub-way,
motor vehicle, either for freight or passenger, or both, with or
without fixed route and whatever may be its classification, freight or
carrier service of any class, express service, steamboat, or steamship
line, pontines, ferries, and small water craft, engaged in the
transportation of passengers and freight, shipyard, marine railway,
marine repair shop, warehouse, wharf or dock, ice plant,
ice-refrigeration plant, canal, irrigation system, sewerage, gas,
electric light, heat and power, water supply and power, petroleum,
sewerage system, telephone, wire or wireless telegraph system and
broadcasting radio stations: Provided, however, That a person engaged
in agriculture, not otherwise a public service, who owns a motor
vehicle and uses it personally and/or enters into a special contract
whereby said motor vehicle is offered for hire or compensation to a
third party or third parties engaged in agriculture, not itself or
themselves a public service, for operation by the latter for a limited
time and for a specific purpose directly connected with the cultivation
of his or their farm, the transportation, processing, and marketing of
agricultural products of such third party or third parties, shall not
be considered as operating a public service for the purposes of this
Act.
"(c) The word
"person" includes every individual, copartnership, joint-stock company
or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, their lessees, trustees or
receivers, as well as any municipality, province, branch or agency of
the Government of the Philippines, and whatever other persons or
entities that may own or possess or operate public services.
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.cralaw Approved: June 14, 1955 |
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