Volume 73
Public Law 86–8
Providing that certain communication activities at the IX Plenary Assembly of the International Radio Consultative Committee to be held in the United States’ in 1959 shall not be construed to be prohibited by the Communications Act of 1934 or any other law.
Approved April 3, 1959
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Providing that certain communication activities at the IX Plenary Assembly of the International Radio Consultative Committee to be held in the United States’ in 1959 shall not be construed to be prohibited by the Communications Act of 1934 or any other law.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That nothing in the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, or in any other provision of law shall be construed to prohibit (1) common carriers subject to such Act from rendering free communication services to official participants in the IX Plenary Assembly of the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) to be held in the United States in Los Angeles, California, in 1959, or (2) qualified official participants in such assembly from operating any amateur radio station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to be operated at such assembly, but any such rendition of services or operation of an amateur radio station shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Federal Communications Commission may deem necessary.
Approved April 3, 1959.