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Title 47 — Telecommunications

Part I · Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication

§ 333. Willful or malicious interference

Statutory text

No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter or operated by the United States Government.

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. Federal Communications Commission Authorization Act of 1990

    Pub. L. 101–396 § 9 · 104 Stat. 848

    Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 333

    (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 333, as added Pub. L. 101–396, § 9, Sept. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 850.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 333, as added Pub. L. 101–396, § 9, Sept. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 850.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 9. willful or malicious interference Part I of title III of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “Sec. 333. “willful or malicious interference No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with 47 USC 333. or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this Act or operated by the United States Government.”

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, known as the Communications Act of 1934, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of this title and Tables.

Credits

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 333, as added Pub. L. 101–396, § 9, , 104 Stat. 850.)

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