Republic Act No. 1834

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1

Section one of Republic Act Numbered Eight hundred and seventy-two is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 1. Subject to the conditions established in this Act and the provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six, as amended, and of the Constitution, applicable thereto, there is hereby granted to Artemio G. Ilano, hereinafter called the grantee, his successors or assigns, for a period of fifty years from the approval of this Act, the right and privilege to construct, maintain and operate in the cities of Cavite, Trece Martires, and Tagaytay, and the Province of Cavite, hereinafter referred to as the cities and province, a telephone and radiophone system to carry on the business of electrical transmission of conversations and signals in said cities and province. For this purpose, the grantee is hereby authorized to use all streets and public thoroughfares of the said cities and province for the construction and maintenance, and operation of all apparatus, conductors, and appliances necessary for the electrical transmission of conversations and signals, to erect poles, string wires, build conduits, lay cables, and to construct, maintain, and use such other approved and generally accepted means of electrical conduction in, on, over, or under the public roads, highways, lands, bridges, streets, lanes, and sidewalks of said cities and province, and overhead or underground lines or on the surface of the ground as may be necessary and best adapted to said transmission."

Section 2

All references in subsequent sections of the said Act to "telephone and to "City of Cavite" are hereby amended to read "telephone and radiophone" and "cities of Cavite, Trece Martires, and Tagaytay and the Province of Cavite," respectively.

Section 3

The title of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "An Act granting Artemio G. Ilano a franchise to install, operate and maintain a telephone and radiophone system in the cities of Cavite, Trece Martires, and Tagaytay and the Province of Cavite."

Section 4

This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 22, 1957.