Section 1.
Authority is hereby granted the Clavecilla Radio System, a Corporation
duly organized under the laws of the Philippines, and hereinafter
referred to as the "grantee", to continue operating its radio stations
in Manila, Cebu and Iloilo, for a period of five years from the date of
expiration of the temporary permits granted it under the provisions of
Commonwealth Act Numbered Seven hundred twenty-nine.
Sec. 2. The authority granted hereby shall be
subject to the same terms and conditions as those prescribed under the
above-mentioned Act, and to the following additional terms and
conditions:
(a) The operation and activities of the stations
shall contribute to the public welfare; shall conform to the ethics of
honest enterprise; shall assist in the functions of public information
and education; shall not be used for the dissemination of deliberately
false information, of willful misinformation, or to the detriment of
the public health, or to incite, encourage or assist in subversive or
treasonable acts;
(b) The operation of the stations shall be in strict
accordance with provisions of Philippine radio laws and regulations and
of those of International Radio Laws, regulations and agreements to
which the Republic of the Philippines is a signatory;
(c) The grantee shall comply with all the
requirements of the Government applicable to duly organized
corporations and to public telegraph carriers, and shall pay the same
taxes on its real estate, buildings and personal property, exclusive of
the franchise, as other persons or corporations are now or hereafter
may be required by law to pay;
(d) The grantee shall make its facilities available
for the handling of whatever traffic the Bureau of Telecommunications
may desire to route over the grantee's system, and shall likewise
install and maintain its systems required to handle efficiently such
traffic as may be turned over to it by the Government.
Official Government telegrams routed over the grantee's system shall be
handled free of charge.
(e) The grantee's stations shall be so operated and
its service shall be so handled and conducted that they shall serve as
supplement to that of the Bureau of Telecommunications for the
effective achievement of this purpose shall be complied with by the
grantee.
(f) A special right is hereby reserved to the
Government of the Republic of the Philippines, in time of war,
insurrection, or emergency, to take over and operate the stations of
the grantee, upon the order and direction of the President of the
Philippines, with compensation to the grantee to be determined by the
Government.
(g) The operation of the stations of the grantee may
be discontinued at any time when public interest, convenience and
necessity are no longer served thereby.
Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 17, 1950
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