Section 40
SEC 40. The Commission is hereby authorized and ordered to charge and collect from any public service the following fees: A charge of twenty-five pesos shall be made for the registration of: Applications under the provisions of sections sixteen (a), (b), (c),and (d), and twenty (a), (6), (c), (f), (g), and (h): Provided, however, That no fee shall be collected for the reduction of schedules, charges, or prices of tickets if the basic unit of the schedule, price, or charge is not altered or modified in any manner. Applications for the approval or modification of maximum rates under section thirteen. Fifteen pesos shall be collected from operators of and transportation for the registration of: Applications under sections seventeen (f) and twenty (a) and (b). Applications for the extension of time for the registration of motor previously authorized by the Commission. Other applications filed by any public service operator not specifically provided for in the preceding paragraphs of this section other than motions and documents of a temporary or incidental character. For the reimbursement of the expenses incurred by the Commission for the supervision and regulation of the operations of the motor vehicle services, the following charges shall be made: For each automobile or motor truck of less than one ton net transportation capacity, five pesos. For each motor truck of one ton or more, but less than two tons net transportation capacity, ten pesos. For each motor truck of two tons or more, but less than three tons net transportation capacity, twenty pesos. For each motor truck of three tons or more but less than four tons net, transportation capacity, thirty pesos. Motor trucks or buses of four tons or more net capacity shall pay at the rate of ten pesos per ton net or fraction thereof. Automobiles, motor trucks and motor buses under the jurisdiction of the Commission and registered in the Bureau of Public Works and such as may hereafter be registered in the same, shall pay ten per centum on the lees fixed in this section, on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and on or before said date each year thereafter, subject to a penalty for delinquency, in the discretion of the Commission, of not exceeding fifty per centum of the sum due: Provided, however, That equipment registered in the Bureau of Public Works during the six months following-June thirtieth of each year shall be exempt from payment for said year. For reimbursement of the expenses incurred by the Commission for the supervision, inspection, and regulation of other services, the following charges shall be made: Ten centavos for every one hundred pesos, or fraction thereof, of the subscribed capital stock if the grantee is a corporation, for each certificate of public convenience or certificate of public necessity and convenience for the operation of railroad, street railway, traction railway, marine railway, public warehouse, wharf, ice plant, cold storage, pipe line, gas, electric light, heat, power, water, oil, sewer, wire or wireless telephone or telegraph system, equipment, or installation, for the first year of the date of the issuance of the certificate, and ten centavos for every hundred pesos or fraction thereof of its proposed or estimated capita] stock if the grantee is an individual or a government entity. For the years following that in which the certificate of the public services mentioned under D-l was issued, whether the grantee be an individual, copartnership, or corporation, there shall be paid one centavo for every hundred pesos of capital invested during the year of the payment of the annual charge herein established, payable on or before June thirtieth of each year, subject to a penalty of fifty per centum of the sum due if payment is not made within the time specified. A charge of ten centavos on every one hundred pesos, or fraction thereof, of any increase of the subscribed capital existing on the date on which the permit was issued, shall be made, if the grantee is a corporation or copartnership, for each permit issued authorizing the increase of the capital stock of the public services mentioned under D-l. A charge of ten centavos on every one hundred pesos or fraction thereof of the necessary additional capital shall be made, if the grantee is an individual, for each permit authorizing the installation of new units, or increase of capacity, or the extension of facilities or other general extensions in the plants of the services specified under D-l. A charge of two pesos shall be made for the first examination and certification of each meter or measuring device used by any public service; and for subsequent examination, the expenses incurred in making the examination shall be paid. A charge of fifty centavos shall be made for certifying copies of official documents and orders in the files of the Commission, plus twenty centavos for each page portfolio so certified. All collections for fees established under the other subsections above mentioned shall be covered into the Philippine Treasury.