Title 47 — Telecommunications
Part I · Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication
§ 202. Discriminations and preferences
Statutory text
Charges, services, etc.
It shall be unlawful for any common carrier to make any unjust or unreasonable discrimination in charges, practices, classifications, regulations, facilities, or services for or in connection with like communication service, directly or indirectly, by any means or device, or to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, class of persons, or locality, or to subject any particular person, class of persons, or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage.
Charges or services included
Charges or services, whenever referred to in this chapter, include charges for, or services in connection with, the use of common carrier lines of communication, whether derived from wire or radio facilities, in chain broadcasting or incidental to radio communication of any kind.
Penalty
Any carrier who knowingly violates the provisions of this section shall forfeit to the United States the sum of $6,000 for each such offense and $300 for each and every day of the continuance of such offense.
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. 73–652 · 48 Stat. 1064
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 202
June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, § 202, 48 Stat. 1070
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, § 202, 48 Stat. 1070Pub. L. 86–751 · 74 Stat. 888
Substituted · 47 U.S.C. § 202(b)
Pub. L. 86–751 substituted “common carrier lines of communication, whether derived from wire or radio facilities,” for “wires”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86–751 substituted “common carrier lines of communication, whether derived from wire or radio facilities,” for “wires”.Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989
Pub. L. 101–239 title III § 3002(a) · 103 Stat. 2106
Substituted · 47 U.S.C. § 202(c)
Pub. L. 101–239 substituted “$6,000” for “$500”
Substituted · 47 U.S.C. § 202(c)
Pub. L. 101–239 substituted “$300” for “$25”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101–239 substituted “$6,000” for “$500” and “$300” for “$25”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) Discrimination and Preference by Common Carrier.— Section 202(c) of the Communications Act of 1984 (47 U.S.C. 202(c)) is amended— (1) by striking “$500” and inserting “$6,000”; and (2) by striking “$25” and inserting “$300”.
2 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original “this Act”, meaning act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, known as the Communications Act of 1934, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of this title and Tables.
Amendments1960–1989 · 2 rounds
1989
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101–239 substituted “$6,000” for “$500” and “$300” for “$25”.
1960
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86–751 substituted “common carrier lines of communication, whether derived from wire or radio facilities,” for “wires”.
Credits
1934–1989 · 3 acts
- 1934June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, § 202, 48 Stat. 1070
- 1960Pub. L. 86–751, , 74 Stat. 888
- 1989Pub. L. 101–239, title III, § 3002(a), , 103 Stat. 2131.
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(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, § 202, 48 Stat. 1070; Pub. L. 86–751, , 74 Stat. 888; Pub. L. 101–239, title III, § 3002(a), , 103 Stat. 2131.)