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REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1524 - AN ACT
GRANTING THE MANILA TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT,
MAINTAIN AND OPERATE A RADIO BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION STATIONS IN
THE PHILIPPINES |
Section 1.
Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, the Manila Times
Publishing Company is hereby granted a franchise 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 and television stations in the
Philippines: Provided, That this franchise shall be void unless the
construction of at least one radio broadcasting or television station
be begun within two years from the date of approval of this Act, and be
completed within four years from the said date: Provided, further, That
the grantee shall provide adequate public service time to enable the
Government, through the said radio broadcasting and television
stations, 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 of obscene or indecent language or
speech, 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 and television stations shall be applied, as far as practicable, to the radio broadcasting and 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 full compliance and
fulfillment of the conditions under which this franchise is
granted.
Sec. 5. (a) The grantee shall be liable to pay the
same taxes on its real estate, buildings, and personal property,
exclusive of the franchise, as other persons or corporations are now or
hereafter may be required by law to pay.
Sec. 7. The grantee shall not require any previous
censorship of any speech, play or other matter to be broadcast or shown
from its stations; but if any such speech, play, or other matter should
constitute a violation of the law or infringement of a private right,
the grantee shall be free from any liability, civil or criminal, for
such speech, play or other matter: Provided, That the grantee, during
any broadcast, may cut off from ther the speech, play, or other matter
being broadcast or shown 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."
Sec. 9. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.cralaw Approved: June 16, 1956 |
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