REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2345 - AN ACT
GRANTING TO GONZALO PUYAT AND SONS INC., A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO
CONSTRUCT, ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT
RADIO STATIONS, WITH CORRESPONDING RELAY AND LAND AND SEA MOBILE
STATIONS, FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATION
WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES |
Section 1. There is hereby granted to Gonzalo Puyat & Sons,
Inc., its successors or assigns, a permit to construct, establish,
maintain and operate in the Philippines, at such places as the said
corporation may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of
Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point radio
stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on
radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to be provided with a
radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus; each
fixed point station to be further provided, according to its needs,
with a suitable radio receiving and radio transmitting apparatus which
shall enable the station to communicate with land and sea mobile
stations located within a radius of not more than fifty kilometers of
the fixed point station.cralaw Sec. 2. This permit shall continue to be in force
until such time as the Government has established at the places
selected by the grantee service that is similar and identical to the
services to be established by the grantee under this permit, and this
permit shall be null and void unless the construction of at least two
of the stations allowed by this permit be begun within one year from
the date of approval of this Act, and be completed within two years
from said date. Sec. 4. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of any of the stations covered by this permit on lands or waters of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.cralaw Sec. 5. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without special assent from Congress, it being expressly understood that the purpose of this permit is to secure to the grantee the right and privilege of constructing, establishing, maintaining and operating radio communications facilities for the private interests of the grantee.cralaw Sec. 6. Under this permit, the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall allot to the grantee frequencies and wave lengths to be used by the grantee, its successors and assigns, and the grantee shall not use frequencies and wave lengths other than those thus allotted; but, whenever necessary the grantee may use the international distress frequency of five hundred kilocycles and the high distress frequency of eight thousand two hundred eight kilocycles.cralaw Sec. 7. No fees are chargeable, as, under this permit, the corporation shall engage in communications regarding its business only.cralaw Sec. 8. The grantee shall so construct and
operate its radio stations as not to interfere with the operations of
other radio stations maintained and operated within the
Philippines. 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 authorize the temporary use of possession thereof by any department of the Government upon payment of just compensation.cralaw Section 11. The grantee shall not lease, transfer, grant the use of, sell or assign this permit, nor the rights and privileges acquired by virtue of this permit, to any person, firm, company, corporation or any other legal or commercial 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 permit may be sold, transferred or assigned, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter to be enacted; and any person, firm, company, corporation or other legal or commercial entity 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 had been originally granted to the said person, firm, company, corporation or other legal or commercial entity.cralaw Section 12. This permit 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 13. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.cralaw Approved: June 20, 1959 |