§ 11. Powers of Federal Communications Commission

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.

1. 1888

   Pub. L. 50–772 § 3 · 25 Stat. 382

   Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 11

   Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 3, 25 Stat. 383

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 3, 25 Stat. 383

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. That if any such railroad or telegraph company referred to Interstate Commerce Commission to compel compliance. in the first section of this act, or company operating such railroad or telegraph line shall refuse or fail, in whole or in part, to maintain. and operate a telegraph line as provided in this act and acts to which this is supplementary, for the use of the Government or the public, for commercial and other purposes, without discrimination, or shall refuse or fail to make or continue such arrangements for the interchange of business with any connecting telegraph company, then any person, company, corporation, or connecting telegraph company may apply tor relief to the Interstate Commerce Commission, whose duty it shall thereupon be, under such rules and regulations as said Commission may prescribe, to ascertain the facts, and determine and order what arrangement is proper to be made in the particular case, and the railroad or telegraph company concerned shall abide by and perform such order: and it shall be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission, when such determination and order are made, to notify the parties concerned, and, if necessary, enforce the same by writ of mandamus in the courts of the United States, in the name of the United States, at the relation of either of said Intel state Commerce Commissioners: Provided, That the said Proviso. Investigations. Commissioners may institute any inquiry, upon their own motion, in the same manner and to the same effect as though complaint had been made.

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