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Volume 44

Public Law 69–1

Limiting the time for which licenses for radio transmission may be granted, and for other purposes.

Approved December 8, 1926

Statutory text

Joint Resolution

Limiting the time for which licenses for radio transmission may be granted, and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in. Congress assembled,

That until otherwise provided by law, no original license for the operation of any radio broadcasting station and no renewal of a license of an existing broadcasting station, shall be granted for longer periods than ninety days and no original license for the operation of any other class of

To other stations.

radio station and no renewal of the license for an existing station of any other class than a broadcasting station, shall be granted for longer periods than two years; and that no original radio

Waiver of right to any wave length, etc., required.

license or the renewal of an existing license shall be granted after the date of the passage of this resolution unless the applicant therefor shall execute in writing a waiver of any right or of any claim to any right, as against the United States, to any wave length or to the use of the ether in radio transmission because of previous license to use the same or because of the use thereof.

Approved, December 8, 1926.

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