Telecommunication systems https://ldr.senate.gov.ph/ en Act No. 3871 https://ldr.senate.gov.ph/legislative-issuance/act-no-3871 <h1 class="au-header-heading">Act No. 3871</h1> <span><span lang="" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span>Sun, 2021-03-28 12:41</span> <div class="field field--name-field-title-sort-of-issuance field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">ACT 3871</div> <div class="field field--name-field-full-title-of-issuance field--type-string-long field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Title</div> <div class="field__item">AN ACT EMPOWERING THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND COMMUNICATIONS TO WORK OUT A PLAN OF CONSOLIDATION OR ANY ALTERNATIVE ARRANGEMENT OF COORDINATION OF THE DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS OR SERVICES, AND APPROPRIATING FORTY THOUSAND PESOS FOR EXPENSES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH AND TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY PESOS FOR THE TEMPORARY OPERATION BY THE BUREAU OF POSTS OF ITS ELECTRICAL COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE.</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-date-of-approval field--type-datetime field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Date of Approval</div> <div class="field__item">1931-11-12</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-url-supreme-court field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">URL (Supreme Court)</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getdoc&amp;DocId=1196&amp;Index=%2A9b8c493322d6ea4e01a8b64cca8b398a">Supreme Court link to the resource</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-cn-issuance-was-passed field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Congress</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/congress/9th%2Bphilippine%2Blegislature" hreflang="en">9th Philippine Legislature</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-issuance-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Issuance Category</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/issuance-category/legislative%2Bissuance" hreflang="en">Legislative Issuance</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-major-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Major Topic</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/major-topic/telecommunications" hreflang="en">Telecommunications</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subjects field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Subjects</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/subject/electrical-communication-systems" hreflang="en">Electrical communication systems</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/subject/telecommunication-systems" hreflang="en">Telecommunication systems</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/subject/posts-bureau-electrical-communications-service" hreflang="en">Posts, Bureau of -- Electrical communications service</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-official-gazette-source field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Official Gazette Details</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--official-gazette-source paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="paragraph-content"> <div class="field field--name-field-official-gazette-source field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Official Gazette Source</div> <div class="field__item">Official Gazette vol. 29 no. 156 page 3885 (12/29/1931)</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-legislative-issuance-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Legislative Issuance Type</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/legislative%2Bissuance%2Btype/act" hreflang="en">ACT</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-year-of-approval-placehold field--type-integer field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Year of Approval Placeholder</div> <div class="field__item">1931</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Body</div> <div class="field__item"><h2> [ <a rel="nofollow"></a>Act <a rel="nofollow"></a>No. <a rel="nofollow"></a>3871, November 13, 1931 ]</h2> <h3>AN ACT EMPOWERING THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND COMMUNICATIONS TO WORK OUT A PLAN OF CONSOLIDATION OR ANY ALTERNATIVE ARRANGEMENT OF COORDINATION OF THE DOMESTIC ELECTRICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS OR SERVICES, AND APPROPRIATING FORTY THOUSAND PESOS FOR EXPENSES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH AND TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY PESOS FOR THE TEMPORARY OPERATION BY THE BUREAU OF POSTS OF ITS ELECTRICAL COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE.</h3> <p><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same</i>:SECTION 1. The Secretary of Commerce and Communications is hereby empowered to make the necessary negotiations with the various entities and interests concerned, for the purpose of working out a plan to be submitted to the Philippine Legislature, whereby the existing electrical communication systems in the Philippine Islands may be consolidated into a single unit to be operated by a new entity, which shall be either under private management subject to the Government regulation and supervision, or under a semi-governmental form of organization free from the restrictions which are generally imposed on Bureaus and Offices of the Government: <i>Provided</i>, That in the event the entities and interests concerned shall be unable to reach a satisfactory agreement for the consolidation of their respective systems and services, the Secretary of Commerce and Communications shall work out any other plan or alternative arrangement, whereby some form of coordination of the various services may be effected: <i>Provided, further</i>, That any preliminary agreement which may be entered into by the Secretary of Commerce and Communications shall have no binding effect until or unless the same shall have been ratified and approved by the Philippine Legislature.SEC. 2. In the negotiations, the provincial and municipal or city governments shall be represented by any official or officials designated for the purpose by the Secretary of the Interior.SEC. 3. To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Communications to perform the duties imposed upon him by this Act, the sum of forty thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury, to be expended at his discretion for salaries, per diems and traveling expenses of valuation experts, technical assistants and other personnel who may be employed by him and for such other expenses as may be necessary in connection with any work to be done under this Act: <i>Provided, however</i>, That the money hereby appropriated will only be spent in the event that the entities and interests concerned are able to reach a satisfactory arrangement for the consolidation of their respective systems and services, as provided for in section one hereof.SEC. 4. The Secretary of Commerce and Communications shall submit to the Legislature on or before October first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, the plan of consolidation or other arrangement of coordination which may be agreed upon. In case no agreement shall have been arrived at, a report on the status of the negotiations shall be submitted by him on that date.SEC. 5. In order that the Bureau of Posts may continue temporarily in charge of the administration, operation, maintenance, and repair of the radio stations and the radio and telegraph service in Manila. Cebu, Iloilo, Zamboanga, Davao, Cagayan (Misamis), Tacloban, Aparri, and Laoag, from January first to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, the sum of two hundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred forty pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any general funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be disbursed by the Director of Posts, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, for the following purposes:<br /> </p><blockquote> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>1. Two engineers</td> <td>P10,000.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>2. Two chief operators</td> <td>7,200.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>3. One chief operator</td> <td>3,000.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td> 4. Six chief operators</td> <td>14,400.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td> 5. Three assistant chief operators</td> <td>6,600.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>6. Thirteen operators</td> <td>23,400.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>7. Fifty-three operators</td> <td>76,320.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>8. Two technical operators</td> <td>6,000.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>9. Two technical operators</td> <td>4,800.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>10. One technical operator</td> <td>1,320.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>11. Nine operators</td> <td>8,640.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>12. Three engine men or operators</td> <td>2,520.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>13. One engine man or operator</td> <td>720.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td> 14. One clerk or operator</td> <td>2,000.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>15. Two clerks or operators</td> <td>3,120.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td>16. Two clerks or operators</td> <td>2,880.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td> 17. One clerk or operator</td> <td>840.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td> 18. Sixteen clerks or operators</td> <td>11,520.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td> 19. Twelve clerks or operators</td> <td>7,200.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td> 20. Nine messengers (motorcycle)</td> <td>7,560.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item </td> <td>21. Thirty-six messengers</td> <td>15,120.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td> 22. Twenty-five messengers</td> <td>9,000.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td> 23. Four janitors or messengers</td> <td>1,440.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td> 24. Three watchmen or messengers </td> <td>1,440.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Item</td> <td> 25. For miscellaneous expenses, including clothing and footwear allowances for messengers, not to exceed P30 each</td> <td>18,900.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>--------------</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Total</td> <td> P245,940.00</td> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </blockquote> <p>SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved. November 13, 1931.</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph" rel="nofollow"><i>Supreme Court E-Library</i></a></p> </div> </div> Sun, 28 Mar 2021 04:41:35 +0000 Anonymous 4369 at https://ldr.senate.gov.ph