REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1120 - AN
ACT GRANTING TO PHILIPPINE PACKING CORPORATION A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO
CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, PRIVATE
BASE, AND PRIVATE COASTAL RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND
TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES |
Section 1. There
is hereby granted to Philippine Packing Corporation, its successors or
assigns, a temporary permit to construct, establish, maintain and
operate in the Philippines, at Manila, Bugo and Phillips, Bukidnon, and
at such other places as the company may select and the Secretary of
Public Works and Communications may approve, private fixed
point-to-point, private base, and private coastal radio stations for
the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radio
radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to be provided with a
radio transmission apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus.cralaw Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point, private base, and private coastal radio stations, or any of them, on lands of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.cralaw Sec. 3. This temporary permit shall continue to be in force during that the time the Government has not established similar service at the places selected by the grantee, and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction of at least two stations be begun within two years from the date of approval of this Act, and all of them be completed within six years from said date.cralaw Sec. 4. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without further special assent of the Congress of the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point, private base, and private coastal radio stations in such places within the Philippines as the interest of the company and of its trade and business may justify.cralaw Sec. 5. This temporary permit shall not take effect until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequencies and wage lengths to be used by the stations.cralaw Sec. 6. No fees shall be charged by the grantee, as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantee's business only.cralaw Sec. 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall so construct and operated its radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.cralaw Sec. 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from 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 its radio stations.cralaw Sec. 9. The grantee, its successors or assigns,
shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now
existing or hereafter enacted. Section 11. This temporary 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 privilege herein provided for. Approved: June 15, 1954 |