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Title 47 — Telecommunications

Part I · Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication

§ 324. Use of minimum power

Statutory text

In all circumstances, except in case of radio communications or signals relating to vessels in distress, all radio stations, including those owned and operated by the United States, shall use the minimum amount of power necessary to carry out the communication desired.

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. § 324

    (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 324, 48 Stat. 1091.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 324, 48 Stat. 1091.)

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Credits

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 324, 48 Stat. 1091.)

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