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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5856 - AN
ACT GRANTING KATIGBAK ENTERPRISES, INCORPORATED, A FRANCHISE TO
CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN A RADIO BROADCASTING STATION IN THE
CITY OF SAN PABLO Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, as well as Act Numbered Three thousand eight hundred forty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the regulation of radio stations and radio communications in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes;" Act Numbered Three thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, known as the Radio Broadcasting Law; Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred forty-six, known as the Public Service Act, and their amendments, and other applicable laws, not inconsistent with this Act, Katigbak Enterprises, Incorporated, is hereby granted a franchise to construct, operate and maintain a radio broadcasting station in the City of San Pablo. Sec. 2. This franchise shall continue for a period of twenty-five years from the date the said stations shall be put in operation and is granted upon the express condition that the franchise shall be void unless the construction of said station be begun within two years from the date of approval of this Act and completed within three years from said date. Sec. 3. This franchise is likewise granted upon the express condition that the grantee shall contribute to the public welfare, shall assist in the functions of public information and education, shall conform to the ethics of honest enterprise, and shall not use its station for the dissemination of deliberately false information or willful misrepresentation, or to the detriment of public health, or to incite, encourage or assist in subversive or treasonable acts. Sec. 4. The grantee's radio broadcasting stations shall not be put in actual operation until the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have allotted to the grantee the frequency and wave length to be used under this franchise and issued to the grantee a license for such use. Sec. 5. A special right is reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, rebellion, public peril, or other national emergency and when public safety requires, to cause the closing of said station or to authorize the use and operation thereof by any department of the Government without compensating the grantee for the use of said station during the continuance of the national emergency. Sec. 6. The grantee shall be liable to pay the same taxes, unless exempted therefrom, on its business, real estate, buildings and personal property, exclusive of this franchise, as other persons or corporations are now or hereafter may be required by law to pay. Sec. 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial, municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, demands or actions arising out of accidents or injuries, whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of the station of the grantee. Sec. 8. The franchise hereby granted shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when the public interest so requires. Sec. 9. As a condition of the granting of this
franchise, the grantee shall execute a bond in favor of the Government
of the Republic of the Philippines, in the sum of ten thousand pesos,
in form and with sureties satisfactory to the Secretary of Public Works
and Communications, conditioned upon faithful performance of the
grantee's obligation hereunder during the first three years of the life
of this franchise. If after three years from the date of acceptance of
this franchise, the grantee shall have fulfilled the same, the bond
shall be cancelled by the Secretary of Public Works and
Communications. Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969. |
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