Grant of Radio Station Franchise to Laguna Tayabas Bus Company and Batangas Transportation Company

June 18, 1964

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 3946

AN ACT GRANTING THE LAGUNA TAYABAS BUS COMPANY AND BATANGAS TRANSPORTATION COMPANY A FRANCHISE TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, PRIVATE COASTAL, AND LAND-BASED AND LAND MOBILE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF WIRELESS MESSAGES TO AND FROM SAID STATIONS

SECTION 1. The Laguna Tayabas Bus Company and Batangas Transportation Company are hereby granted a franchise to establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point, private coastal, and land-based and land mobile radio stations in the cities of Manila, Pasay, San Pablo, Lipa, Lucena, Tagaytay and Naga, in the province of Laguna, Quezon, Batangas, Mindoro Oriental and Mindoro Occidental, Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur, and in such places within the Philippines where they operate their business and/or the interest of their trade and business activities may justify, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, for the transmission and reception of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony to and from said stations. cd

SECTION 2. This franchise shall continue to be in force for a period of twenty-five years and is granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction or installation of at least one station be begun within two years from the date of approval of this Act and be completed within four years from said date.

The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point, private coastal, and land-based and land mobile stations on any land of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.

SECTION 3. The grantees 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 franchise is to secure to the grantees the right to establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point, private coastal, and land-based and land mobile radio stations at the places hereinabove stated for no other purpose than to promote, protect and subserve the trade and business interests of the grantees.

SECTION 4. No fees shall be charged by the grantees as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the grantees' business only.

SECTION 5. The grantees shall so construct and operate their stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.

SECTION 6. The grantees are authorized to operate their radio stations of the frequency and/or frequencies that may be assigned to them by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications. casia

SECTION 7. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, calamity, or disaster to cause the closing of the grantees' radio stations or to authorize the temporary use or possession thereof by any department of the Government, upon payment of just compensation.

SECTION 8. This franchise shall be subject to amendment, alteration or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when the public interest so requires, and shall not be interpreted as an exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided for.

SECTION 9. Whenever in this Act the term "grantees" is used, it shall be held and understood to mean and represent the Laguna Tayabas Bus Company and Batangas Transportation Company, their representatives, successors or assigns.

SECTION 10. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 18, 1964

            Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 60, No. 46, p. 7544 on November 16, 1964