Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables
§ 28. Penalties not to bar suits for damages
Statutory text
The penalties provided in this chapter for the breaking or injury of a submarine cable shall not be a bar to a suit for damages on account of 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 § 8 · 25 Stat. 41
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 28
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 8, 25 Stat. 42.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 8, 25 Stat. 42.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 8. That the penalties provided in this act for the breaking or Suits for damages. injury of a submarine cable shall not be a bar to a suit for damages on account of such breaking or injury.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 8, 25 Stat. 42.)