2013 US Code
Title 47 - Telecommunications
Chapter 2 - SUBMARINE CABLES (§§ 21 - 39)
Section 34 - Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, 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. 34 - Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for |
| Contains | section 34 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | May 27, 1921, ch. 12, §1, 42 Stat. 8. |
| Statutes at Large Reference | 42 Stat. 8 |
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No person shall land or operate in the United States any submarine cable directly or indirectly connecting the United States with any foreign country, or connecting one portion of the United States with any other portion thereof, unless a written license to land or operate such cable has been issued by the President of the United States. The conditions of sections 34 to 39 of this title shall not apply to cables, all of which, including both terminals, lie wholly within the continental United States.
(May 27, 1921, ch. 12, §1, 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 sections 34 to 39 of this title, to Federal Communications Commission, see section 5(a) of Ex. Ord. No. 10530, eff. May 10, 1954, 19 F.R. 2709, set out under section 301 of Title 3, The President.
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