Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 43 — Newspaper Preservation
§ 1801. Congressional declaration of policy
Statutory text
In the public interest of maintaining a newspaper press editorially and reportorially independent and competitive in all parts of the United States, it is hereby declared to be the public policy of the United States to preserve the publication of newspapers in any city, community, or metropolitan area where a joint operating arrangement has been heretofore entered into because of economic distress or is hereafter effected in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Newspaper Preservation Act
Pub. L. 91–353 § 2 · 84 Stat. 466
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1801
(Pub. L. 91–353, § 2, July 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 466.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–353, § 2, July 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 466.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. declaration of policy In the public interest of maintaining a newspaper press editorially and reportorially independent and competitive in all pails of the United States, it is hereby declared to be the public policy of the United States to preserve the publication of newspapers in any city, community, or metropolitan area where a joint operating arrangement has been heretofore entered into because of economic distress or is hereafter effected in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Pub. L. 91–353, § 1, , 84 Stat. 466, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Newspaper Preservation Act’.”
Separability
Pub. L. 91–353, § 6, , 84 Stat. 467, provided that: “If any provision of this Act [enacting this chapter] is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this Act, and the applicability of such provision to any other person or circumstance, shall not be affected thereby.”