Section 9
SEC. 9. The grantee shall not begin any construction whatever, pursuant to this franchise without first obtaining a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity from the Public Service Commission, of the form and character provided for in Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six, as amended, specifically authorizing such construction. The grantee shall not exercise any right or privilege under this franchise without first obtaining such Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity from the Public Service Commission. The Public Service Commission shall ,have the power to issue such certificate whenever it shall, after due hearing, determine that such construction or such exercise of the rights and privileges under this franchise is necessary and proper for the public convenience, and the Commission shall have the power, in issuing such certificate, to impose such conditions as to construction, equipment, and maintenance, service or operation as the public convenience and interest may reasonably require, and such certificate shall state the date that the grantee shall commence construction work and the period within which the work shall be completed. In order to avail itself of the rights granted by such Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, the grantee must file with the Public Service Commission, within such period as said Commission shall fix, its acceptance in writing of the terms and conditions of this franchise and of the certificate together with the document evidencing the fact that the deposit required in Section ten of this Act has been made, In the event that the grantee shall not commence the furnishing of telephone service referred to in the certificate obtained and filed as herein provided within such period as the Public Service Commission shall have fixed, said Commission may declare said certificate null and void and the deposit made pursuant to Section ten of this Act shall be forfeited to the National Government, unless the grantee shall have been prevented from doing so by an act of God, force majeure, usurpation by military power, martial law, riot, uprising, or other cause beyond its control: Provided, however, That if the grantee shall have been so prevented by any of such cause from commencing the telephone service within the period specified, the time during which it shall have been so prevented shall be added to said period.