§ 24. Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys

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. 50–17 § 4 · 25 Stat. 41

   Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 24

   (Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 4, 25 Stat. 41.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 4, 25 Stat. 41.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. That the master of any vessel which, while engaged in Observance of signals. laying or repairing submarine cables, shall fail to observe the rules concerning signals that have been or shall hereafter be adopted by the parties to the convention with a view to preventing collisions at sea; or the master of any vessel that, perceiving, or being able to perceive the said signals displayed upon a telegraph ship engaged in repairing a cable, shall not withdraw to or keep at a distance of at least one nautical mile; or the master of any vessel that seeing or being able to see buoys intended to mark the position of a cable when being laid or when out of order or broken, shall not keep at a distance of at least a quarter of a nautical mile, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to imprison- FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 17. 1888.ment for a term not exceeding one month, or to a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars.

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