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RA 6520 Section 8

RA 6520 Section 8

Section 8

SEC. 8. The grantee shall not begin any construction whatever pursuant to this franchise without first obtaining a certificate of public necessity and convenience from the Public Service Commission, of the form and character provided for in Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six, as amended, specially authorizing such construction. The grantee shall not exercise any right or privilege under the franchise without first having attained such certificate of public necessity and convenience from the Public Service Commission. The Public Service Commission shall have the power to issue such certificate of public necessity and convenience whenever it shall after due hearing, determine that such construction, or such exercise of the right, privilege or franchise, is necessary and proper for the public convenience. The Commission shall have the power in so approving to impose such conditions as to construction, equipment, maintenance, service, or operation as the public convenience and interest may reasonably require. Such certificate shall state the date that grantee commences 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 necessity and convenience, the grantee must file with the Public Service Commission, within such period as said Commission shall fix, its acceptance, together with the document evidencing the act that the deposit required by said certificate has been made, in writing. 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 fix, deposit made pursuant to Section nine 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. If the grantee shall nave been so prevented by one or more or all of such causes from commercing to furnish telephone service within the specified period, the time during which it shall have been so prevented shall be added to said period.

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CitationRA 6520 Section 8 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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