Practice question
Congress grants an entity a single sixty-year authorization to operate an admitted public utility. The entity says the term is valid because it invested heavily. Does investment remove the Article XII, section 11 limit?
- No; the single sixty-year grant exceeds the constitutional fifty-year maximum.
- Yes; investment always authorizes any term.
- Yes; the constitutional maximum governs only small utilities.
- Yes; a promise of efficient service creates an exception.
- Yes; an exclusive grant has no maximum.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article XII, section 11, https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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