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Republic Act
Approved June 19, 1965

Republic Act No. 4539

An act granting ramon encarnacion of vigan, ilocos sur a franchise to construct, maintain and operate an ice plant and cold storage in the province of ilocos sur, and to sell ice therein

An Act Granting Ramon Encarnacion of Vigan, Ilocos Sur a Franchise to Construct, Maintain and Operate an Ice Plant and Cold Storage in the Province of Ilocos Sur, and to Sell Ice Therein

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This act grants Ramon Encarnacion a 25‑year franchise to construct, maintain, and operate an ice plant and cold storage in Ilocos Sur, setting conditions and tax provisions.

  • 25‑year franchise granted to Ramon Encarnacion
  • Manufacture and supply of ice up to plant capacity
  • Apparatus must be modern and safe
  • Franchise becomes null if not commenced within 3 years
  • Subject to Commonwealth Act 146 on rate fixation
  • Franchise tax of 5% of gross earnings (3% national, 2% municipal)
franchise
ice plant
cold storage
Ilocos Sur
public utilities

REPUBLIC ACT No. 4539

An Act Granting Ramon Encarnacion of Vigan, Ilocos Sur a Franchise to Construct, Maintain and Operate an Ice Plant and Cold Storage in the Province of Ilocos Sur, and to Sell Ice Therein

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

Section 1

Subject to the provisions imposed by this Act, there is granted to Ramon Encarnacion of Vigan, Ilocos Sur, hereinafter referred to as the grantee, his successors or assigns, for a period of twenty-five years from the approval of this Act, a franchise to construct, operate and maintain an ice plant and cold storage in the Province of Ilocos Sur for the purpose of manufacturing and distributing ice therein and to charge a schedule of prices and rates for the ice so furnished, which schedule of prices and rates shall at all times be subject to regulation by the Public Service Commission.

Section 2

The grantee shall manufacture and supply ice up to the limit of the capacity of the plant.

Section 3

All apparatus and appurtenances to be used by the grantee shall be modern, safe and first class in every respect, and the grantee shall, whenever the Public Service Commission shall determine that public interest reasonably requires it, change or alter any of his plants apparatus and appurtenances at grantees expense.

Section 4

If the grantee shall not commence the manufacture and distribution of ice in the aforestated province within three years from the approval of this Act, unless prevented by act of God, or force majeure, martial law, riot, civil commotion, usurpation by a military power or any other cause beyond the grantees control, this franchise shall become null and void.

Section 5

This franchise is granted subject to the provisions of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six, as amended, only with respect to the fixing of rates, and with the understanding and upon the condition that it shall be subject to amendment, alteration or repeal by the Congress of the Philippines when public interest so requires.

Section 6

In consideration of the franchise and rights hereby granted, the grantee shall pay a franchise tax equal to five years per centum of the gross earnings under this franchise, three per centum of which shall accrue to the National Government and two per centum to the municipality where the franchise is being operated.

Section 7

This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 19, 1965.

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