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Title 47 - Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs
Chapter 2 - SUBMARINE CABLES (§§ 21 - 39)
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| Publication Title | United States Code, 2006 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 47 - TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 47 - TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS CHAPTER 2 - SUBMARINE CABLES Table Of Contents |
| Date | 2011 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 3, 2012 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
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| Sec. | |
| 21. | Submarine cables; willful injury to; punishment. |
| 22. | Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment. |
| 23. | Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted. |
| 24. | Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys. |
| 25. | Fishing vessels; duty to keep nets from cables. |
| 26. | Duties of commanders of warships. |
| 27. | Offending vessels to show nationality. |
| 28. | Penalties not to bar suits for damages. |
| 29. | Master of offending vessel punishable. |
| 30. | Definitions. |
| 31. | Summary trials. |
| 32. | Application. |
| 33. | Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses. |
| 34. | Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for. |
| 35. | Withholding or revoking of licenses by President; terms and conditions of licenses. |
| 36. | Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction. |
| 37. | Violations; punishment. |
| 38. | “United States” defined. |
| 39. | Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted. |
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