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REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1343 - AN
ACT GRANTING THE MANILA CHRONICLE A PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND
OPERATE RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS AND STATIONS FOR TELEVISION IN THE
PHILIPPINES |
Section 1.
Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, the Manila Chronicle is
hereby granted a permit, which shall continue in force during the time
that the Government has not established similar service at the places
selected by the grantee, to construct, maintain and operate, for
commercial purposes and in the public interest, radio broadcasting
stations and stations for television in the Philippines: Provided, That
this permit shall be void unless the construction of at least one radio
broadcasting station or one television station be begun within two
years from the date of approval of this Act, and be completed within
four years from said date: Provided, further, That the grantee shall
provide adequate public service time to enable the Government, through
the said radio broadcasting stations and stations for television, to
reach the population on important public issues; shall assist in the
functions of public information and education; shall conform to the
ethics of honest enterprise; and shall not use its stations for the
broadcasting and/or telecasting of obscene or indecent language,
speech, act or scene, or for the dissemination of deliberately false
information or willful misrepresentation, or to the detriment of the
public health, or to incite, encourage, or assist in subversive or
treasonable acts. Sec. 2. Such provisions of Act Numbered Thirty-eight hundred and forty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes"; Act Numbered Thirty-nine hundred and ninety seven, known as the Radio Broadcasting Law; Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six, known as the Public Service Act, and their amendments, as are applicable to radio broadcasting stations shall be applied, as far as practicable, to the television stations referred to in section one.cralaw Sec. 3. The grantee shall file a bond in the amount of fifty thousand pesos to guaranty for the full compliance and fulfillment of the conditions under which this permit is granted.cralaw Sec. 4. In the event of any competing individual, partnership or corporation receiving from the Congress a similar permit in which there shall be any term or terms more favorable than those herein granted or tending to place the herein grantee at any disadvantage, then such term or terms shall, ipso facto, become a part of the terms hereof and shall operate equally in favor of the grantee as in the case of said competing individual, partnership or corporation.cralaw
Sec. 5. (a) The grantee shall be liable to pay the
same taxes on its real estate, buildings and personal property,
exclusive of the permit, as other persons or corporations are now or
hereafter may be required by law to pay. Sec. 6. In the event the Government should desire to maintain and operate for itself any or all of the stations herein authorized, the grantee shall turn over such station or stations to the Government with all the serviceable equipment therein, at cost, less reasonable depreciation.cralaw Sec. 7. The grantee shall not require any previous censorship of any speech, play, act or scene or other matter to be broadcast and/or telecast from its stations; but if any such speech, play, act or scene or other matter should constitute a violation of the law or infringement of private right, the grantee shall be free from any liability, civil or criminal, for such speech, play, or act or scene or other matter: Provided, That the grantee, during any broadcast and/or telecast, may cut off from ther the speech, play, act or scene or other matter being broadcast and/or telecast, if the tendency thereof is to propose and/or incite treason, rebellion or sedition, or the language used therein or the theme thereof is indecent or immoral.cralaw
Sec. 8. The grantee shall not lease, transfer,
grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this permit nor the rights and
privileges acquired thereunder to any person, firm, company,
corporation or other commercial or legal entity, nor merge with any
other company or corporation organized for the same purpose, without
the approval of the Congress of the Philippines first had. Any
corporation to which this permit is sold, transferred or assigned,
shall be subject to all the conditions, terms, restrictions and
limitations of this permit as fully and completely and to the same
extent as if the permit has been originally granted to the said person,
firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal
entity. Approved: June 16, 1955 |
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