2014 US Code
Title 47 - Telecommunications (Sections 1 - 1473)
Chapter 2 - Submarine Cables (Sections 21 - 39)
Sec. 36 - Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 47 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 47 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS CHAPTER 2 - SUBMARINE CABLES Sec. 36 - Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction |
| Contains | section 36 |
| Date | 2014 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2015 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | May 27, 1921, ch. 12, §3, 42 Stat. 8. |
| Statutes at Large Reference | 42 Stat. 8 |
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The President is empowered to prevent the landing of any cable about to be landed in violation of sections 34 to 39 of this title. When any such cable is about to be or is landed or is being operated without a license, any district court of the United States exercising jurisdiction in the district in which such cable is about to be or is landed, or any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the parties, shall have jurisdiction, at the suit of the United States, to enjoin the landing or operation of such cable or to compel, by injunction, the removal thereof.
(May 27, 1921, ch. 12, §3, 42 Stat. 8.)
CODIFICATIONSection was not enacted as part of the Submarine Cable Act which comprises this chapter.
DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONSFor delegation of functions vested in President by this section to Federal Communications Commission, see note set out under section 34 of this title.
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