Title 47 — Telecommunications
Part I · Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication
§ 313. Application of antitrust laws to manufacture, sale, and trade in radio apparatus
Statutory text
Revocation of licenses
All laws of the United States relating to unlawful restraints and monopolies and to combinations, contracts, or agreements in restraint of trade are declared to be applicable to the manufacture and sale of and to trade in radio apparatus and devices entering into or affecting interstate or foreign commerce and to interstate or foreign radio communications. Whenever in any suit, action, or proceeding, civil or criminal, brought under the provisions of any of said laws or in any proceedings brought to enforce or to review findings and orders of the Federal Trade Commission or other governmental agency in respect of any matters as to which said Commission or other governmental agency is by law authorized to act, any licensee shall be found guilty of the violation of the provisions of such laws or any of them, the court, in addition to the penalties imposed by said laws, may adjudge, order, and/or decree that the license of such licensee shall, as of the date the decree or judgment becomes finally effective or as of such other date as the said decree shall fix, be revoked and that all rights under such license shall thereupon cease: Provided, however, That such licensee shall have the same right of appeal or review as is provided by law in respect of other decrees and judgments of said court.
Refusal of licenses and permits
The Commission is hereby directed to refuse a station license and/or the permit hereinafter required for the construction of a station to any person (or to any person directly or indirectly controlled by such person) whose license has been revoked by a court under this section.
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. 73–652 · 48 Stat. 1064
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 313
June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 313, 48 Stat. 1087
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 313, 48 Stat. 1087Communications Act Amendments, 1960
Pub. L. 86–752 § 5(b) · 74 Stat. 889
Amended · 47 U.S.C. § 313
Pub. L. 86–752 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)
Added · 47 U.S.C. § 313
Pub. L. 86–752 added subsec. (b)
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 86–752 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Section 313 of such Act (47 U.S.C. 313) is amended— Refusal of licenses and permits in certain cases. (1) by inserting after the word “laws” in the heading of such section the following: “;refusal of licenses and permits in certain cases”; and (2) by inserting “(a)” after “Sec. 313.” and adding at the end of such section the following subsection: “(b) The Commission is hereby directed to refuse a station license and/or the permit hereinafter required for the construction of a station to any person (or to any person directly or indirectly controlled by such person) whose license has been revoked by a court under this section.”
2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1960—Pub. L. 86–752 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
All executive and administrative functions of the Federal Trade Commission were, with certain exceptions, transferred to the Chairman of such Commission by Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 1950, § 1, eff. , 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1264, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
1934–1960 · 2 acts
- 1934June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 313, 48 Stat. 1087
- 1960Pub. L. 86–752, § 5(b), , 74 Stat. 893.
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(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 313, 48 Stat. 1087; Pub. L. 86–752, § 5(b), , 74 Stat. 893.)