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Title 47 - Telecommunications
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| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Title 47 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contains | Sections 1 to 1473 |
| Date | 2012 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 15, 2013 |
| Positive Law | No |
- Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 - TELEGRAPHS (§§ 1 - 17)
- Table Of Contents
- Section 1 to 6 - Repealed. July 16, 1947, ch. 256, §1, 61 Stat. 327
- Section 7 - Omitted
- Section 8 - Repealed. July 16, 1947, ch. 256, §1, 61 Stat. 327
- Section 9 - Subsidized companies required to construct and operate lines
- Section 10 - Equal facilities to connecting lines; discrimination in rates
- Section 11 - Powers of Federal Communications Commission
- Section 12 - Interference with liens of United States
- Section 13 - Violations; punishment; action for damages
- Section 14 - Contracts filed with Federal Communications Commission; reports; failure to make
- Section 15 - Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines
- Section 16 - Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System; money transfers; portion of receipts withheld
- Section 17 - Repealed. Pub. L. 105-119, title VI, §620, Nov. 26, 1997, 111 Stat. 2519
- Chapter 2 - SUBMARINE CABLES (§§ 21 - 39)
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- Section 21 - Submarine cables; willful injury to; punishment
- Section 22 - Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment
- Section 23 - Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted
- Section 24 - Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys
- Section 25 - Fishing vessels; duty to keep nets from cables
- Section 26 - Duties of commanders of warships
- Section 27 - Offending vessels to show nationality
- Section 28 - Penalties not to bar suits for damages
- Section 29 - Master of offending vessel punishable
- Section 30 - Definitions
- Section 31 - Summary trials
- Section 32 - Application
- Section 33 - Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses
- Section 34 - Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for
- Section 35 - Withholding or revoking of licenses by President; terms and conditions of licenses
- Section 36 - Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction
- Section 37 - Violations; punishment
- Section 38 - “United States” defined
- Section 39 - Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted
- Chapter 3 - RADIOTELEGRAPHS (§§ 51 - 63)
- Chapter 4 - RADIO ACT OF 1927 (§§ 81 - 121)
- Section 81 to 83 - Repealed. June 19, 1934, ch. 652, §602(a), 48 Stat. 1102
- Section 83a to 83e - Omitted
- Section 84 - Repealed. June 19, 1934, ch. 652, §602(a), 48 Stat. 1102
- Section 84a, 84b - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 647
- Section 85 to 119 - Repealed. June 19, 1934, ch. 652, §602(a), 48 Stat. 1102
- Section 120, 121 - Omitted
- Chapter 5 - WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION (§§ 151 - 621)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 151 - 162)
- Subchapter II - COMMON CARRIERS (§§ 201 - 276)
- Subchapter III - SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO (§§ 301 - 399b)
- Subchapter IV - PROCEDURAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS (§§ 401 - 416)
- Subchapter V - PENAL PROVISIONS; FORFEITURES (§§ 501 - 510)
- Subchapter V-A - CABLE COMMUNICATIONS (§§ 521 - 573)
- Subchapter VI - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS (§§ 601 - 621)
- Chapter 6 - COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEM (§§ 701 - 769)
- Table Of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 701 - 703)
- Subchapter II - FEDERAL COORDINATION, PLANNING, AND REGULATION (§§ 721)
- Subchapter III - COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE CORPORATION (§§ 731 - 735)
- Subchapter IV - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS (§§ 741 - 744)
- Subchapter V - INTERNATIONAL MARITIME SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATIONS (§§ 751 - 757)
- Subchapter VI - COMMUNICATIONS COMPETITION AND PRIVATIZATION (§§ 761 - 769)
- Chapter 7 - CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATIONS (§§ 801 - 805)
- Chapter 8 - NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION (§§ 901 - 942)
- Chapter 9 - INTERCEPTION OF DIGITAL AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS (§§ 1001 - 1021)
- Chapter 10 - LOCAL TV (§§ 1101 - 1110)
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- Section 1101 - Purpose
- Section 1102 - LOCAL Television Loan Guarantee Board
- Section 1103 - Approval of loan guarantees
- Section 1104 - Administration of loan guarantees
- Section 1105 - Annual audit
- Section 1106 - Improved cellular service in rural areas
- Section 1107 - Sunset
- Section 1108 - Definitions
- Section 1109 - Authorizations of appropriations
- Section 1110 - Prevention of interference to direct broadcast satellite services
- Chapter 11 - COMMERCIAL MOBILE SERVICE ALERTS (§§ 1201 - 1205)
- Chapter 12 - BROADBAND (§§ 1301 - 1305)
- Chapter 13 - PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM AUCTIONS (§§ 1401 - 1473)
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- Section 1401 - Definitions
- Section 1402 - Rule of construction
- Section 1403 - Enforcement
- Section 1404 - National security restrictions on use of funds and auction participation
- Subchapter I - REALLOCATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY SPECTRUM (§§ 1411 - 1413)
- Subchapter II - GOVERNANCE OF PUBLIC SAFETY SPECTRUM (§§ 1421 - 1433)
- Subchapter III - PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITMENTS (§§ 1441 - 1443)
- Subchapter IV - SPECTRUM AUCTION AUTHORITY (§§ 1451 - 1457)
- Subchapter V - NEXT GENERATION 9-1-1 ADVANCEMENT ACT OF 2012 (§§ 1471 - 1473)
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