PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1878 - AN ACT
GRANTING THE SANTA MESA EQUIPMENT CORPORATION A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO
CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, COASTAL
AERONAUTICAL, LAND BASED AND LAND MOBILE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE
RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE
PHILIPPINES |
Section 1. There
is hereby granted to the Santa Mesa Equipment Corporation, its
successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, 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, or any licensing authority, private fixed
point-to-point, coastal, aeronautical, land based and land mobile radio
stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on
radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony, each station to be provided with
radio transmitting apparatus and 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, land is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction or installation of said stations be begun within two years from the date of the approval of this Act and be completed within three years from said date. Sec. 3. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in 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, coastal, aeronautical, land based and land mobile radio stations in such places within the Philippines as the interest of the grantee may justify.
Sec. 4. 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 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. 7. The grantee shall file a bond in the amount of fifty thousand pesos to guarantee full compliance and fulfillment of the conditions under which this temporary permit is granted. Sec. 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or which may hereafter be enacted.
Sec. 9. The grantee, its successors or assigns, is
authorized to operate its private fixed point-to-point, coastal
aeronautical, land based and land mobile radio stations in the medium
frequency, high frequency, and very high frequency that may be assigned
to it by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, or by any
licensing authority. Section 11. 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 or possession thereof by any department of the Government, upon payment of just compensation.
Section 12. 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 22, 1957 |