REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6604 - AN
ACT FURTHER AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED FORTY HUNDRED AND TWELVE,
ENTITLED "AN ACT GRANTING POTOTAN ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER CORPORATION,
A FRANCHISE FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER SYSTEM IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF POTOTAN, PROVINCE OF ILOILO"
Section 1.
Section one of Republic Act Numbered Forty hundred and twelve, as
amended, is hereby further amended, to read as follows:
"Section 1. Subject to the terms and conditions
established in Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and thirty-six, as
amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred thirty-two, and to the
provisions of the Constitution, there is granted to Pototan Electric
Light and Power Corporation in the Municipality of Pototan, Province of
Iloilo, for a period of twenty-five years from approval of this Act,
right, privilege and authority to construct, maintain and operate
light, heat and/or power system and an ice plant for the purpose of
generating, distributing, electric light, heat and/or power and
manufacturing ice for distribution and sale within the said
municipality, all the municipalities of the fourth legislative district
of Iloilo, and in the neighboring municipalities."
Sec. 2. Section two-C of the same Act is amended
to read as follows:
"Sec. 2-C. If the grantee shall not commence the
manufacture and distribution of ice in the Municipality of Pototan, all
the municipalities of the fourth legislative district of Iloilo and the
neighboring municipalities, within two years from the approval of this
amendatory Act, unless prevented by an act of God, force majeure,
martial law, riot, civil commotion, usurpation of military power and
any other cause beyond the grantee's control, then the franchise
authorizing the manufacture and sale of ice shall be null and void."
Sec. 3. Section two-D, of the same Act is amended
to read as follows:
"Sec. 2-D. This franchise is granted subject to the
provisions of the Constitution and Commonwealth Act Numbered One
hundred forty-six, as amended, and with the understanding and upon the
condition that it shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal
by the Congress of the Philippines, when public interest so requires."
Sec. 4. This franchise shall be inoperative in
those municipalities where there is an existing franchise holder for
the service herein granted.
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: October 23, 1972
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