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H. No. 3470 / 64 OG No. 47, 12029 (November 18, 1968)
[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4684, June 18, 1966 ]
AN ACT GRANTING MENZI AGRICULTURAL CORPORATION A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT RADIO STATIONS, PRIVATE COASTAL RADIO STATIONS, PRIVATE LAND-BASED AND LAND-MOBILE RADIO STATIONS, WATER-BORNE RADIO STATIONS AND AERONAUTICAL 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 Menzi Agricultural Corporation, its successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, maintain and operate in the Philippines, at Manila and such places as the said grantee may select, subject; to the approval of the Secretary of Public works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point radio stations, private coastal radio stations, private land-based and land-mobile radio stations, water-borne radio receiving stations and aeronautical stations for the reception and radio receiving apparatus.
SEC. 2. 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, granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction or installation of said stations be started within two years from the date of approval of this Act and be completed within live year from said date.
SEC. 3. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without the approval of the Congress of the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is to secure only to the grantee the right to construct, install, maintain, and operate private fixed point-to-point radio stations, private coastal radio stations, private land-based and land-mobile radio stations water-borne radio stations and aeronautical stations at such places within the Philippines as the interest of the grantee may justify.
SEC. 4. 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 grantee's business only.
SEC. 5. 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.
SEC. 6. 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 accidents or injuries, whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations.
SEC. 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted.
SEC. 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, authorized to operate its private point-to-point radio stations, private coastal radio stations, private land-base and land-mobile radio stations, water-borne radio station and aeronautical stations in the medium frequency, high frequency and very high frequency that may be assigned to it by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications.
SEC. 9. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, rebellion, public peril or other national emergency and when public safety requires to cause the closing of the grantee's radio station or stations or to authorize the use, or possession thereof by any department of the Government with just compensation to the grantee or the use of said stations during the continuance of the national emergency.
SEC. 10. 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. 11. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, June 18, 1966.
SECTION 1. There is hereby granted to Menzi Agricultural Corporation, its successors or assigns, a temporary permit to construct, maintain and operate in the Philippines, at Manila and such places as the said grantee may select, subject; to the approval of the Secretary of Public works and Communications, private fixed point-to-point radio stations, private coastal radio stations, private land-based and land-mobile radio stations, water-borne radio receiving stations and aeronautical stations for the reception and radio receiving apparatus.
SEC. 2. 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, granted upon the express condition that the same shall be void unless the construction or installation of said stations be started within two years from the date of approval of this Act and be completed within live year from said date.
SEC. 3. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall not engage in domestic business of telecommunications in the Philippines without the approval of the Congress of the Philippines, it being understood that the purpose of this temporary permit is to secure only to the grantee the right to construct, install, maintain, and operate private fixed point-to-point radio stations, private coastal radio stations, private land-based and land-mobile radio stations water-borne radio stations and aeronautical stations at such places within the Philippines as the interest of the grantee may justify.
SEC. 4. 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 grantee's business only.
SEC. 5. 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.
SEC. 6. 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 accidents or injuries, whether to property or to persons, caused by the construction or operation of its radio stations.
SEC. 7. The grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted.
SEC. 8. The grantee, its successors or assigns, authorized to operate its private point-to-point radio stations, private coastal radio stations, private land-base and land-mobile radio stations, water-borne radio station and aeronautical stations in the medium frequency, high frequency and very high frequency that may be assigned to it by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications.
SEC. 9. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, rebellion, public peril or other national emergency and when public safety requires to cause the closing of the grantee's radio station or stations or to authorize the use, or possession thereof by any department of the Government with just compensation to the grantee or the use of said stations during the continuance of the national emergency.
SEC. 10. 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. 11. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, June 18, 1966.