REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5812 - AN ACT GRANTING VILLA ESCUDERO CORPORATION (VESCO) A TEMPORARY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT, OPERATE AND MAINTAIN PRIVATE FIXED POINT-TO-POINT, LAND BASED, LAND MOBILE, AERONAUTICAL AND MARINE-BORNE RADIO STATIONS FOR THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION 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 Villa Escudero Corporation (VESCO) a temporary permit to construct, operate and maintain in the Philippines, at the following places, to wit: main office at San Pablo City, Manila, Lucena" City, Tiaong, Province of Quezon, vehicles of the corporation, and such other places as the grantee may select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications or any competent authority who is or shall be authorized to give said approval, private fixed point-to-point, land based, land mobile, aeronautical and marine-borne radio stations, or any combination of them, for the transmission and reception of wireless messages on radiotelegraphy or radio-telephony, each station to consist of two radio apparatus comprising of a sending and a receiving set.

SEC. 2. The President of the Philippines shall have the power and authority to permit the location of said private fixed point-to-point, ]and based, land mobile, aeronautical and marine-borne radio stations or any of them on the public domain upon such terms as he may prescribe.

SEC. 3. The grantee 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, operate and maintain such radio stations at places in the Philippines as its interest and that of its trade and business may require.

SEC. 4. A special right is hereby reserved to the President of the Philippines in time of war, insurrection, emergency, calamity or disaster, to cause the closing of the grantee's stations or to authorize the temporary use or possession thereof by any department of the Government upon payment of just compensation.

SEC 5. 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. 6. The grantee shall so construct and operate its radio stations as not to interfere with the operation of other radio stations operated and maintained in the Philippines.

SEC. 7. The grantee shall hold the national, provincial, city and municipal governments 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. 8. The grantee shall be subject to the corporation laws of the Philippines now existing or hereafter enacted.

SEC. 9. The grantee is authorized to operate its private fixed point-to-point, land based, land mobile, aeronautical and marine-borne radio stations in the medium frequency, high frequency and very high frequency that may be assigned to it by the licensing authority.

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 privilege herein provided for.

SEC. 11. Whenever in this temporary permit the term "grantee" is used, it shall be held to mean and represent Villa Escudero Corporation (VESCO), its successors or assigns.

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

Enacted without Executive approval, June 21, 1969.