Grant of Temporary Permit to Reynaldo Lumber Co. (Radio Stations)

June 21, 1952

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 794

AN ACT GRANTING TO THE REYNALDO LUMBER COMPANY, A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, INSTALL, ESTABLISH AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES

SECTION 1. There is hereby granted to the Reynaldo Lumber Company, its successors or assigns, the right and privilege of constructing, installing, establishing and operating in the Philippines and at such places as the said company may select, subject to the approval of the Department Secretary under whose jurisdiction the Radio Control Board in functioning, or any competent authority who is or shall be authorized now in the future to give said approval, such private fixed point-to-point radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages on radiotelephony, each station to consist at least two radio apparatus comprising of a receiving and sending radio apparatus; and such devices as the grantee may decide to use to preserve the secrecy of communications, provided that such devices meet with the approval of the Department Secretary under whose jurisdiction the Radio Control Board is functioning. cd i

SECTION 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point radio stations or any of them on the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.

SECTION 3. This temporary permit shall continue to be in force during the time that the Government has not established similar service at the places selected by the grantee, and is made upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction of said stations begun within one year from date of approval of this Act and be completed within two years from said date.

SECTION 4. The Reynaldo Lumber Company 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 temporary permit is to secure to the grantee the right to construct, install, establish and operate private point-to-point radio stations in places within the Philippines as the interest of the Company and of its trade and business may justify.

SECTION 5. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Republic of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, calamity disaster, or disturbance of peace or order to cause the closing of the station or stations or to authorize the temporary use or possession thereof by any department of the Government.

SECTION 6. No fees shall be charged by the grantee as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in communications regarding the company's business only.

SECTION 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the National, provincial and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands or actions arising out of accidents or injuries, whether to property or to person, caused by the construction or operation of the stations for reception and transmission of wireless messages by the grantee, its successors or assigns.

SECTION 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall so construct and operate its radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines. cd i

SECTION 9. No private property shall be taken for any purpose by the grantee of this temporary permit, its successors or assigns, without proper condemnation proceedings and just compensation paid or tendered therein, and any authority to take and occupy land contained therein shall not authorize the taking, use, or occupation of any land except such as is required for the actual necessary purposes for which the temporary permit is granted. All lands for rights of use and occupation of lands granted to the grantee, his successors or assigns, shall upon the termination of this temporary permit or upon its revocation or repeal, revert to the National, provincial or municipal government to which such land or right to use and occupy belonged at the time of the grant thereof or the right to use or occupy the same was concerned to the grantee herein, its successors or assigns.

SECTION 10. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the Corporation Laws of the Philippines now existing or which may be hereafter enacted.

SECTION 11. This temporary permit 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.

SECTION 12. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 21, 1952

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 48, No. 9, p. 3758 in September 1952