Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables
§ 23. Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted
Statutory text
The provisions of sections 21 and 22 of this title shall not apply to a person who breaks or injures a cable in an effort to save the life or limb of himself or of any other person, or to save his own or any other vessel: Provided, That he takes reasonable precautions to avoid such breaking or injury.
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 § 3 · 25 Stat. 41
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 23
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 3, 25 Stat. 41.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 3, 25 Stat. 41.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That the provisions of the foregoing sections shall not Saving life, etc. apply to a person who breaks or injures a cable in an effort to save the life or limb of himself or of any other person, or to save his own or any other vessel: Provided, That he takes reasonable precautions to avoid such breaking or injury.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 3, 25 Stat. 41.)