Grant of Temporary Permit to Lianga Bay Logging Co., Inc. (Radiotelephone Stations)

June 19, 1959

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2281

AN ACT GRANTING THE LIANGA BAY LOGGING COMPANY, INC., A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT RADIOTELEPHONE STATIONS FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF WIRELESS MESSAGES TO AND FROM SAID STATIONS

SECTION 1.  The Lianga Bay Logging Company, Inc., is hereby granted a temporary permit to establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations in any part of the Philippines where it operates its business, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, for the transmission and reception of wireless messages to and from said stations.

SECTION 2.  The temporary permit granted under this Act shall continue to be in force while the Government has not established similar service at places hereinabove stated, and subject to the condition that the grantee shall start operation under said permit within one and a half years from the date of the approval of this Act.

SECTION 3.  The grantee shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines, it being understood that the temporary permit granted under this Act merely secures the right of the grantee to establish, maintain and operate private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations at the places hereinabove stated for no other purpose than to promote, protect and subserve the trade and business interest of the grantee as a logging company.

SECTION 4.  The actual operation of said private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations shall not commence until after the Secretary of Public Works and Communications shall have adopted to the grantee the frequencies and wave lengths to be used thereunder.

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

SECTION 6.  The grantee shall hold the National, provincial, city and municipal governments of the Republic of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands or actions arising out of accidents or injuries, whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radiotelephone stations.

SECTION 7.  The grantee shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or which may hereafter be enacted.

SECTION 8.  A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, rebellion, public peril, calamity, disaster or disturbance of peace and order to cause the closure of the grantee's radiotelephone stations or to authorize the temporary use and operation thereof by any department of the Government upon payment of just compensation.

SECTION 9.  The temporary permit granted under this Act 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 privilege herein provided for. cd i

SECTION 10.  Wherever in this permit the term "grantee" is used, it shall be held and understood to mean the Lianga Bay Logging Company, Inc., its representatives, successors or assigns, unless the context indicates otherwise.

SECTION 11.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 19, 1959

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 55, No. 31, p. 5981 on August 3, 1959