Supreme Court E-Library
Information At Your Fingertips

H. No. 16663 / 65 OG No. 25, 6385 (June 23, 1969)

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5375, June 15, 1968 ]

AN ACT GRANTING ASSOCIATED AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES, INC. A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, ESTABLISH, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, COASTAL, AERONAUTICAL, LAND-BASED AND LAND MOBILE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THE PHILIPPINES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION. 1. There is hereby granted to Associated Agricultural Activities, Inc. a temporary permit to construct, establish, operate and maintain in the Philippines, at such places as the grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point, coastal, aeronautical, land-based and land mobile radio stations for the reception and transmission of wireless messages by radiotelegraph or radiotelephone, each to be provided with a radio transmitting apparatus and a radio receiving apparatus.

SEC. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said stations or any of them on lands of the public domain upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe.

SEC. 3. The grantee, its successors or assigns, 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, establish, operate and maintain said radio stations at such places within the Philippines as the interest of the grantee and of its trade and business may justify.

SEC. 4. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines existing or hereafter enacted,

SEC. 5. No fees shall be charged as the radio stations that may be established by virtue of this Act shall engage in the communications regarding the grantee's business.

SEC. 6. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall construct and operate its radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations maintained and operated in the Philippines.

SEC. 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall hold the national, provincial, city and municipal governments of the Philippines harmless from all claims, accounts, demands, or actions arising out of accident, or injuries, whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations.

SEC . 8. Any person, natural or judicial, to which this temporary permit may be sold, transferred or assigned, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines, now existing or hereafter enacted, and any person to which this temporary permit is sold, transferred or assigned shall be subject to all conditions, terms, restrictions and limitations of this temporary permit had been fully and completely and to the same extent as temporary permit had been originally granted to such person.

SEC. 9. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, public peril, emergency, calamity or disaster to cause the closing of the grantee's radio stations or to authorize the temporary use or possession thereof by any department of the Government upon payment of just compensation.

SEC. 10. Whenever in this permit the term "grantee" is used, it shall be held and understood to mean Associated Agricultural Activities, Inc. its representatives, successors or assigns, unless the context indicates otherwise.

SEC. 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 privileges herein provided for.

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

Approved, June 15, 1968.