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Title 47 — Telecommunications

Part I · Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication

§ 322. Exchanging radio communications between land and ship stations and from ship to ship

Statutory text

Every land station open to general public service between the coast and vessels or aircraft at sea shall, within the scope of its normal operations, be bound to exchange radio communications or signals with any ship or aircraft station at sea; and each station on shipboard or aircraft at sea shall, within the scope of its normal operations, be bound to exchange radio communications or signals with any other station on shipboard or aircraft at sea or with any land station open to general public service between the coast and vessels or aircraft at sea: Provided, That such exchange of radio communication shall be without distinction as to radio systems or instruments adopted by each station.

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. § 322

    June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 322, 48 Stat. 1090

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 322, 48 Stat. 1090

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1937—Act , provided for radio communications with aircraft stations.

Credits

1934–1937 · 2 acts
  1. 1934June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 322, 48 Stat. 1090
  2. 1937May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 8, 50 Stat. 191.
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(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 322, 48 Stat. 1090; May 20, 1937, ch. 229, § 8, 50 Stat. 191.)

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