Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables
§ 30. Definitions
Statutory text
Unless the context of this chapter otherwise requires, the term “vessel” shall be taken to mean every description of vessel used in navigation, in whatever way it is propelled; the term “master” shall be taken to include every person having command or charge of a vessel; and the term “person” to include a body of persons, corporate or incorporate. The term “convention” shall be taken to mean the International Convention for the Protection of Submarine Cables, made at Paris on the 14th day of May [March], 1884, and proclaimed by the President of the United States on the 22d day of May, 1885.
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 § 10 · 25 Stat. 41
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 30
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 10, 25 Stat. 42.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 10, 25 Stat. 42.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 10. That unless the context of this act otherwise requires, Definition of terms. the term “vessel” shall be taken to mean every description of vessel used in navigation, in whatever way it is propelled; the term “master” shall be taken to include every person having command or charge of a vessel; and the term ‘“person” to include a body of persons, corporate or incorporate. The term “‘convention” shall be taken to mean the International Convention for the Protection of Submarine Cables, made at Paris on the fourteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and proclaimed by the President of the United States on the twenty-second day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 10, 25 Stat. 42.)