REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1010 - AN ACT
GRANTING MR. FELIX R. DEL ROSARIO A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT,
MAINTAIN AND OPERATE A RADIO BROADCASTING STATION IN BACOLOD CITY,
PHILIPPINES |
Section 1.
Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, as well as of Act
Numbered Three thousand eight hundred 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 Three
thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, known as the Radio Broadcasting
Law; Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred forty-six, known as the
Public Service Act, an their amendments, and other applicable laws,
there is hereby granted to Mr. Felix R. del Rosario, hereinafter
referred to as the "grantee", a temporary permit to construct, maintain
and operate in Bacolod City, Philippines, subject to approval of the
Secretary of Public Works and Communications, a radio broadcasting
station or stations; Provided, That the holder of the temporary permit
herein granted shall start the operation thereof within one and a half
years from the approval of said temporary permit. Failure to comply
with this requirement shall ipso facto cancel and void the temporary
permit.cralaw Sec. 2. After the grantee shall have operated
under this temporary permit, the same shall continue to be in force
during the time that the Government has not established similar service
at the places selected by the grantee. Sec. 4. The stations of the grantee shall be so
constructed and operated and the wave lengths so selected as to avoid
interference with existing radio stations and to permit of the
expansion of the grantee's service. Sec. 6. The right is hereby reserved to the Government of the Philippines, through the Public Service Commission, or such other office as may be thereunto duly authorized, to fix the maximum and minimum rates to be charged by the grantee.cralaw Sec. 7. (a) The grantee shall be liable to
pay the same taxes on its real estate, buildings, and personal
property, exclusive of the temporary permit, as other persons or
corporations are now hereinafter may be required by law to pay.cralaw Sec. 8. The national, provincial and municipal governments of the Philippines shall not be liable for 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 the stations of the grantee, liability for which is assumed fully by the grantee.cralaw Sec. 9. No private property shall be taken for any purpose by the grantee without proper condemnation proceedings and just compensation paid or tendered therefor, and any authority to take and occupy land contained herein shall not apply to the taking, use, or occupation of any land except such as is required for the actual necessary purposes for which this temporary permit is granted.cralaw Section 10. It shall be unlawful for the grantee to
use, employ, or contracts, for the labor or persons held in involuntary
servitude. Section 12. As a condition of the granting of this temporary permit the grantee shall execute a bond in favor of the Government of the Philippines, in the sum of ten thousand pesos in form and with sureties satisfactory to the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the grantee's obligations hereunder during the first three years of the life of this temporary permit. If, after three years from the date of acceptance of this temporary permit, the grantee shall have fulfilled said obligations or soon thereafter as the grantee shall have fulfilled the same, the bond aforesaid shall be cancelled by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications.cralaw Section 13. Acceptance of this temporary permit shall be given in writing within six months after approval of this Act. When so accepted by the grantee and upon the approval of the bond aforesaid by the Secretary of Public Works and communications the grantee shall be empowered to exercise the privileges granted thereby.cralaw Section 14. The grantee shall not lease, transfer, grant the usufruct of, sell or assign this temporary permit nor the rights and privileges acquired thereunder to any person, firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity, not merge with any company or corporation organized for the same purpose, without the approval of the Congress of the Philippines first had. Any corporation to which this temporary permit may be sold, transferred, or assigned, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or which may hereafter be enacted, and any person, firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity to which this temporary permit is sold, transferred, or assigned shall be subject to all the 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 the said person, firm, company, corporation or other commercial or legal entity.cralaw Section 15. This temporary permit shall not be interpreted to mean an exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided for.cralaw Section 16. This temporary permit is likewise granted upon the express condition that the grantee shall contribute to the public welfare, shall assist in the functions of public information and education, shall conform to the ethics of honest enterprise, and shall not use its station 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. The grantee shall not require any previous censorship of any speech, play or other matter to be broadcast 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 shall cut off from ther the speech, play or other matter being broadcast 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, and willful failure to do so shall constitute a valid cause for the cancellation of this permit.cralaw Section 17. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.cralaw Approved: June 12, 1954 |