Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 1 — Telegraphs
§ 15. Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines
Statutory text
Nothing in sections 9 to 15 of this title shall be construed to affect or impair the right of Congress, at any time hereafter, to alter, amend, or repeal sections 1 to 6 and 8 1 of this title; and sections 9 to 15 of this title shall be subject to alteration, amendment, or repeal as, in the opinion of Congress, justice or the public welfare may require; and nothing herein contained shall be held to deny, exclude, or impair any right or remedy in the premises now or hereafter existing in the United States, or the authority of the Federal Communications Commission under the provisions of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended [47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.], to prescribe charges, classifications, regulations, and practices, including priorities, applicable to Government communications.
Footnotes
- 1 See References in Text note below.
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.
Pub. L. 50–772 § 7 · 25 Stat. 382
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 15
Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 7, 25 Stat. 385
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 7, 25 Stat. 385Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to affect or Amendment, etc. impair the right of Congress, at any time hereafter, to alter, amend, or repeal the said acts hereinbefore mentioned; and this act shall be subject to alteration, amendment, or repeal as, in the opinion of Congress, justice or the public welfare may require; and nothing herein contained shall be held to deny, exclude, or impair any right or remedy in the premises now existing in the United States, or any authority that the Postmaster-General now has under title sixty-five R. S. Title LXV. p. 1010. of the Revised Statutes to fix rates, or, of the Government, to purchase lines as provided under said title, or to have its messages given precedence in transmission.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Sections 1 to 6 and 8 of this title, referred to in text, were repealed by act July 16, 1947, ch. 256, § 1, 61 Stat. 327.
The Communications Act of 1934, referred to in text, is act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, as amended, which is classified principally to chapter 5 (§ 151 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of this title and Tables.
Amendments
1954—Act , corrected references and struck out obsolete material.
Credits
1888–1954 · 2 acts
- 1888Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 7, 25 Stat. 385
- 1954Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, § 49, 68 Stat. 1244.
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(Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 7, 25 Stat. 385; Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, § 49, 68 Stat. 1244.)