Section 12
SEC. 12. No corporation shall occupy or use any private property without the consent of the owners or prior condemnation proceedings and paying or tendering just compensation therefor, and no corporation shall occupy or use any public lands, places, roads, highways, streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, sidewalks, bridges, or any other public property whatever without first securing a franchise for such use or occupancy from the Government of the Philippine Islands: Provided, however, That street railways, tramways, electric light, power, or telephone corporations may, in the manner prescribed in Act Numbered Six hundred and sixty-seven, secure a franchise to occupy or use any public lands, places, roads, highways, streets, avenues, lanes, alleys. sidewalks, bridges, or any other public property necessary for the transaction of its business: And provided further, That street railway, tramway, telephone, telegraph, electric power or light corporations for the purpose of doing business in the city of Manila, and railroad corporations For the purpose of doing business in the Philippine Islands, may form and organize as corporations under this Act. GENERAL POWERS OF CORPORATIONS.