§ 14. Contracts filed with Federal Communications Commission; reports; failure to make

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 § 6 · 25 Stat. 382

   Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 14

   Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 6, 25 Stat. 384

   Source evidence

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   Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 6, 25 Stat. 384

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 6. That it shall be the duty of each and every one of the aforesaid railroad and telegraph companies, within sixty days from and after 1 he passage of this act, to tile with the Interstate Commerce Commission copies of all contracts and agreements of every description existing between it and every other person or corporation whatsoever in reference to the ownership, possession, maintenance, control, use. or operation of any telegraph lines, or property over or upon its rights of way. and also a report describing with sufficient certainty the telegraph lines and property belonging to it, and the manner in which the same are being then used and operated by it. and the telegraph lines and property upon its right of way in which any other person or corporation claims to have a title or interest, and setting forth the grounds of such claim, and the manner in which the same are being then used and operated: and it shall be the duty of each and every one of said railroad and telegraph companies annually hereafter to report to Reports. the Interstate Commerce Commission, with reasonable fullness and certainty, the nature, extent, value, and condition of the telegraph lines and property then belonging to it, the gross earnings, and all expenses of maintenance, use. and operation thereof, and its relation and business with all connecting telegraph companies during the preceding year, at such time and in such manner as may be required by a system of reports which said commission shall prescribe; and if any of said railroad or telegraph companies shall Penalty for failure. refuse or fail to make such reports or any report as may be called for by said Commission, or refuse to submit its books and records for inspection, such neglect or refusal shall operate as a forfeiture, in each ease of such neglect or refusal, of a sum not less than one thousand dollars nor more than live thousand dollars, to be recovered by the Attorney-General of the United States, in the name and for the use and benefit of the United States; and it shall be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to inform the Attorney-General of all such cases of neglect or refusal, whose duty it shall be to proceed at once to judicially enforce the forfeitures hereinbefore provided.

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