Grant of Ice Plant Franchise to Antonio Sibulo

August 4, 1969

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6105

AN ACT GRANTING ANTONIO SIBULO A FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN AN ICE PLANT IN SAN PEDRO IN THE PROVINCE OF LAGUNA AND TO SELL AND DISTRIBUTE ICE IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF SAN PEDRO, SANTA ROSA, BIÑAN AND CABUYAO IN THE SAID PROVINCE

SECTION 1. Subject to the terms and conditions established in this and in Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and thirty-six, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-two and to the provisions of the Constitution, there is granted to Antonio Sibulo, for a period of twenty-five years from the approval of this Act, the privilege and authority to construct, operate and maintain an ice plant in the Municipality of San Pedro in the Province of Laguna and to sell and distribute ice in the municipalities of San Pedro, Santa Rosa, Biñan and Cabuyao and to charge and collect a schedule of prices and rates for the ice so furnished which schedule of prices and rates shall at all times be subject to regulation by the Public Service Commission. acd

SECTION 2. The grantee shall manufacture ice up to the limit of the capacity of his plant, said limit to be determined by the Public Service Commission.

SECTION 3. All the apparatus and appurtenances to be used by the grantee shall be modern, safe and first class in every respect, and the grantee shall, whenever the Public Service Commission shall determine that public interest reasonably requires it, change or alter any of his apparatus and appurtenances at grantee's expense.

SECTION 4. If the grantee shall not commence the manufacture and distribution of ice within one year from the approval of this Act, unless prevented by an act of God or force majeure, martial law, riot, civil commotion, usurpation by a military power or any other cause beyond the grantee's control, this franchise shall become null and void.

SECTION 5. 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.

SECTION 6. The grantee may sell, lease, grant, convey, assign, mortgage give in usufruct, or transfer this franchise and all property and rights acquired thereunder to any individual, co-partnership, corporation competent to operate the business hereby authorized, but transfer of title to the franchise or any right or interest acquired under such sale, lease, grant, conveyance, assignment, mortgage, usufruct or transfer shall not be effective until there shall have been filed in the office of the Public Service Commission or its legal successor an agreement in writing by which the individual, co-partnership, or corporation in whose favor such sale, lease, grant, conveyance, assignment, mortgage, usufruct or transfer is made, shall be firmly bound to comply with the terms and conditions imposed upon the grantee by this franchise and by any and all certificates of convenience and public necessity therefore issued by the Public Service Commission or its legal successor, and to accept the same subject to all terms and conditions then existing. casia

SECTION 7. In consideration of this franchise the grantee shall pay a tax equivalent to five per cent of his gross income.

SECTION 8. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Enacted without Executive approval, August 4, 1969.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 66, No. 18, p. 4499 on May 4, 1970