Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables
§ 38. “United States” defined
Statutory text
The term “United States” as used in sections 34 to 39 of this title includes the Canal Zone and all territory continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of America.
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 § 5 · 42 Stat. 8
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 38
May 27, 1921, ch. 12, § 5, 42 Stat. 8
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 27, 1921, ch. 12, § 5, 42 Stat. 8Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. That the term “United States” as used in this Act includes the Canal Zone, the Philippine Islands, and all territory, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of America.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Notes
References in Text
For definition of Canal Zone, referred to in text, see section 3602(b) of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
Editorial Notes
Codification
Words “the Philippine Islands” deleted on authority of Proc. No. 2695 issued pursuant to section 1394 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse, which recognized independence of Philippine Islands as of . Proc. No. 2695 is set out under section 1394 of Title 22.
Section was not enacted as part of the Submarine Cable Act which comprises this chapter.
Credits
1921–1946 · 2 acts
- 1921May 27, 1921, ch. 12, § 5, 42 Stat. 8
- 1946Proc. No. 2695, eff. , 11 F.R. 7517, 60 Stat. 1352.
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(May 27, 1921, ch. 12, § 5, 42 Stat. 8; Proc. No. 2695, eff. , 11 F.R. 7517, 60 Stat. 1352.)