Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables
§ 22. Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment
Statutory text
Any person who by culpable negligence shall break or injure a submarine cable in such manner as to interrupt or embarrass, in whole or in part, telegraphic communication, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding $500, or to both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
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. 50–17 § 2 · 25 Stat. 41
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 22
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 2, 25 Stat. 41.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 2, 25 Stat. 41.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That any person who by culpable negligence shall break Penalty for culpable neglect. or injure a submarine cable in such manner as to interrupt or embarrass, in whole or in part, telegraphic communication, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and. on conviction thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 2, 25 Stat. 41.)