Section 12Sec./Art. 12

Section 23 of Commonwealth Act No. 146, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"Section 23. Any public service corporation that shall perform, commit, or do any act or thing herein forbidden or prohibited or shall neglect, fail, or omit to do or perform any act or thing herein required to be done or performed, shall be punished, after notice and hearing, by a fine not exceeding Two million pesos (P2,000,000.00), or by imprisonment of not lower than six (6) years and one (1) day and not higher than twelve (12) years, or both, at the discretion of the court.

"In case the services of any entity engaged in the operation and management of critical infrastructure are interrupted, it shall act on customer complaints within ten (10) days, or provide an action plan to be accomplished within a reasonable period, from the date the complaint, written or otherwise, was received. For this purpose, entities engaged in the operation and management of critical infrastructure shall file a monthly report to the appropriate regulatory agency detailing the service interruptions that occurred during the covered period, the complaints lodged before it, and the actions taken on each complaint."