(NAR) VOL. 21 NO.1/ JANUARY - MARCH 2010
“ii. The route or base of operation shall be from a particular city or municipality in Metro-Manila or Mega-Manila (e.g., City of Manila, Quezon City, Pasay City etc.,) and uniformly, from said place to any point within Mega-Manila (NCR, Regions III and IV) accessible to motor vehicle traffic.2. Par iv is hereby amended/clarified to read as follows:
“iv. The taxicab units to be applied for/shall be:3. Par vii is hereby amended/clarified to read as follows:
a) Brand new units – un-used and year model is the current year or year before the application is filed.
“vii. Simultaneous application for cancellation of the abandoned/unoperated franchises/CPC’s in the name/s of previous grantees as provided from the records of the Board and thereafter, the application for appropriation of this abandoned franchises/CPC’s may be filed. Or a joint/single application seeking and praying for the cancellation of the abandoned/unoperated franchise/CPC in the name of previous grantee as provided from the records of the Board, and appropriation of the aforesaid abandoned franchise/CPC in favour of the new or present applicant may also be filed.4. Par. ix is hereby amended/clarified to read as follows:
Only such application for cancellation and appropriation shall be allowed at a minimum number of twenty (20) units for each application. The Board may allow more than one application for twenty (20) units each, provided that all the applications shall be for brand new units, ready for inspection and registration within one hundred eighty (180) days from the grant of franchise.
“ix. Aside from the regular fees to be assessed by the Technical Evaluation Division of the Board, an appropriation fee in the amount of Pesos: Thirty Thousand (PhP 30,000.00)/unit shall be assessed and paid/collected before the application is received for filing or before filing of the same with the Board.”5. Par. xii is hereby amended/clarified to read as follows:
“xii. That applicant-grantee is prohibited from selling the Franchise/CPC or causing the filing of application for segregation or any mode of sale and transfer of the said franchise/CPC granted pursuant to this circular within five (5) years from grant and without previous approval by the Board. If the Board later discovers, that this prohibition was violated, it shall motu proprio or upon petition of concerned party cancel the Franchise/CPC even if already transferred to a vendee who is presumed to have previous notice of this limitation on this authority.”6. Par. xiii is hereby added as last paragraph to this MC No. 2009-031 to read as follows:
Furthermore, to minimize “kabit system” or allowing others to “attach” their units to the franchise/CPC thus granted pursuant to this application for cancellation and appropriation under this circular, the applicant-grantee is prohibited from filing any Petition for Dropping and Substitution of the units authorized in the decision issued pursuant to this circular within five(5) years from grant here at except when the unit to be withdrawn is no longer available for reasons beyond the control of the former,as when it was carnapped, destroyed/burned, lost for any other reasons, e.g.,the unit having been sunk, buried or back-hoed, etc.
“xiii. Further action on the applications for ordinary airconditioned taxicab (TX) service recently filed immediately after the effectivity of this Memorandum Circular No. 2009-031 which are not in the nature of applications for cancellation and appropriation for which only the minimal filing fees for new applications for issuance of franchises/CPC’s have been paid will be held in abeyance. The applicants thereof are directed to secure from the records of the Board the necessary information or data on the franchises/CPC’s which have been abandoned/ unoperated. Then they should amend their ordinary applications to conform with the applications for cancellation and appropriation as mentioned above and to pay the additional amount of filing fees and other charges, particularly the amount of P30,000.00 per unit as set forth under par. ix hereof. Failure to do so within fifteen (15) days from the effectivity of this amendatory Memorandum Circular, this Board shall dismiss said applications.
(SGD.) GERARDO A. PINILI Board Member | (SGD.) MARIA ELLEN DIRIGE-CABATU Board Member |