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Title 47 — Telecommunications

Part III · Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication

§ 383. Exemptions by Commission

Statutory text

The Commission shall exempt from the provisions of this part any vessel, or class of vessels, in the case of which the route or conditions of the voyage, or other conditions or circumstances, are such as to render a radio installation unreasonable, unnecessary, or ineffective, for the purposes of this chapter.

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. National Health Survey Act

    Pub. L. 84–652 · 70 Stat. 489

    Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 383

    June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 383, as added Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 973, § 1, 70 Stat. 1048

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 383, as added Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 973, § 1, 70 Stat. 1048

  2. Pub. L. 103–414 title III § 303(a)(20)(C) · 108 Stat. 4279

    Inserted · 47 U.S.C. § 383

    Pub. L. 103–414 inserted section catchline

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 103–414 inserted section catchline.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (C) by inserting before section 383 the following 47 USC 383. heading:

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

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.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–414 inserted section catchline.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , see section 4 of act , set out as a note under section 381 of this title.

Credits

1934–1994 · 2 acts
  1. 1934June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 383, as added Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 973, § 1, 70 Stat. 1048
  2. 1994amended Pub. L. 103–414, title III, § 303(a)(20)(C), , 108 Stat. 4295.
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(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 383, as added Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 973, § 1, 70 Stat. 1048; amended Pub. L. 103–414, title III, § 303(a)(20)(C), , 108 Stat. 4295.)

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