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U.S. Code / Title 47 — Telecommunications
Title 47Chapter

Chapter 2—Submarine Cables

Contents

  1. § 21. Submarine cables; willful injury to; punishment
  2. § 22. Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment
  3. § 23. Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted
  4. § 24. Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys
  5. § 25. Fishing vessels; duty to keep nets from cables
  6. § 26. Duties of commanders of warships
  7. § 27. Offending vessels to show nationality
  8. § 28. Penalties not to bar suits for damages
  9. § 29. Master of offending vessel punishable
  10. § 30. Definitions
  11. § 31. Summary trials
  12. § 32. Application
  13. § 33. Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses
  14. § 34. Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for
  15. § 35. Withholding or revoking of licenses by President; terms and conditions of licenses
  16. § 36. Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction
  17. § 37. Violations; punishment
  18. § 38. "United States" defined
  19. § 39. Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted

Citation

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Title 47, U.S. Code
Edition
United States Code, 2024 Edition
Current through
01/06/2025

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Current text and notes (House OLRC)GPO edition on govinfoAbout the Statutes at Large

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