PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1050 - AN
ACT GRANTING MARIA G. DE GONZALES, FORTUNATO DE LEON AND FRANCISCO A.
DAVID, ENGAGED IN BUSINESS AS A CO-PARTNERSHIP AND USING THE BUSINESS
NAME "GOLEDA", A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE
PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, PRIVATE COASTAL AND PRIVATE LAND BASE
RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO
COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES |
Section 1. There
is hereby granted to Maria G. de Gonzales, Fortunato de Leon and
Francisco A. David, engaged in business as a co-partnership and using
the business name "GOLEDA", the successors and assigns of said
co-partnership, a temporary permit to construct, maintain and operate
in the Philippines, at such places as the said grantee may select,
subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and
Communications, private fixed point-to-point, private coastal and
private land base 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.
Sec. 2. This temporary permit shall continue to
be in force during the time that 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
grantee shall start construction of at least one radio station within
two years from the date of approval of this Act and shall complete the
construction within four years from said date. Sec. 4. The grantee, its successors and 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, install, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point private coastal and private land base radio stations in such places within the Philippines as the interest of the grantee and of its trade and business may justify. Sec. 5. 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. Sec. 6. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall so construct and operate its radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.
Sec. 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns,
shall hold the National, provincial, city 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. Sec. 9. The grantee, its successors or assigns, is authorized to operate its radio stations on the frequencies, that may be assigned to it by the Secretary of the Public Works and Communications, including the international distress frequency of five hundred kilocycles, and to communicate with ship radio stations open to public correspondence only in cases of emergency. Section 10. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, calamity or disaster to cause the closing of the grantee's radio stations or to authorize the temporary use or possessions thereof by any department of the Government, upon just compensation.
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 the privileges herein provided
for. Approved: June 12, 1954 |