Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables
§ 37. Violations; punishment
Statutory text
Whoever knowingly commits, instigates, or assists in any act forbidden by section 34 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
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. 67–12 § 4 · 42 Stat. 8
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 37
(May 27, 1921, ch. 12, § 4, 42 Stat. 8.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 27, 1921, ch. 12, § 4, 42 Stat. 8.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That whoever knowingly commits, instigates, or assists in any act forbidden by section 1 of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of the Submarine Cable Act which comprises this chapter.
Credits
(May 27, 1921, ch. 12, § 4, 42 Stat. 8.)