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Title 47 — Telecommunications

Part I · Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication

§ 320. Stations liable to interfere with distress signals; designation and regulation

Statutory text

The Commission is authorized to designate from time to time radio stations the communications or signals of which, in its opinion, are liable to interfere with the transmission or reception of distress signals of ships. Such stations are required to keep a licensed radio operator listening in on the frequencies designated for signals of distress and radio communications relating thereto during the entire period the transmitter of such station is in operation.

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. Pub. L. 73–652 · 48 Stat. 1064

    Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 320

    (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 320, 48 Stat. 1090.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 320, 48 Stat. 1090.)

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Credits

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 320, 48 Stat. 1090.)

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