PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES, CODES & ISSUANCES
PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES
REPUBLIC ACTS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1448 - AN ACT
GRANTING THE PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS,
INC., A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT AND
PRIVATE BASE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO
COMMUNICATIONS TO AND FROM SAID STATIONS |
Section 1. There
is hereby granted to the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of the Philippine
Islands, Inc., its successors or assigns, a temporary permit to
construct, maintain and operate in the Philippines at such places as
the grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of
Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point and
private base radio stations with corresponding land mobile units for
the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelephony
or radiotelegraphy, each station to be provided with a radio
transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus. Sec. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point and private base radio terms as he may prescribe. Sec. 3. 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 construction or installation of said stations be begun within one year from the date of the approval of this Act and be completed within two years from said date.
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 merely to secure to the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of the
Philippine Islands, Inc., the right to construct, maintain and operate
private fixed point-to-point and private base radio stations in such
places within the Philippines as the interests of the grantee may
justify, for no other purpose than to protect, promote and subserve the
trade and business interests of the grantee. 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 be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted.
Sec. 8. 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. Section 10. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, calamity, disaster, or disturbance of peace or order 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 just compensation. Section 11. The temporary permit granted under this Act shall not be interpreted to mean an exclusive grant of the privilege herein provided for and is subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines, when the public interest so requires.
Section 12. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval. Approved: June 14, 1956 |