Grant of Temporary Permit to Republic Cement Factory (Radiotelephone Stations)

June 19, 1959

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 2269

AN ACT GRANTING THE REPUBLIC CEMENT FACTORY A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT RADIOTELEPHONE STATIONS FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF WIRELESS MESSAGES.

SECTION 1. A temporary permit is hereby granted to the Republic Cement Factory to construct, install, establish, operate and maintain private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations at its plant in Norzagaray, Bulacan, and at its central office in Manila, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, for the transmission and reception of wireless messages. cd

SECTION 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the construction, maintenance and operation of said private fixed point-to-point radiotelephone stations on any land of the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.

SECTION 3.  The temporary permit granted under this Act shall continue to be in force while the Government has not established similar service at the place 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 4.  The grantee shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunication 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 stated for no other purpose than to promote, protect and subserve the trade and business interest of the grantee.

SECTION 5. 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 allotted to the grantee the frequencies and wave lengths to be used thereunder.

SECTION 6. The grantee shall also construct and operate such stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.

SECTION 7. 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 of its radiotelephone stations.

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 or order to cause the closing of the grantee's radiotelephone stations or to authorize the temporary use and operation thereof by any department of the Government upon 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 privileges herein provided for.

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

Approved: June 19, 1959 casia

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 55, No. 30, p. 5754 on July 27, 1959