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Title 47 — Telecommunications

Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables

§ 39. Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted

Statutory text

No right shall accrue to any government, person, or corporation under the terms of sections 34 to 39 of this title that may not be rescinded, changed, modified, or amended by the Congress.

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. 67–12 § 6 · 42 Stat. 8

    Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 39

    (May 27, 1921, ch. 12, § 6, 42 Stat. 9.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 27, 1921, ch. 12, § 6, 42 Stat. 9.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 6. That no right shall accrue to any Government, person, or Right to rescind, etc., declared. corporation under the terms of this Act that may not be rescinded, changed, modified, or amended by the Congress.

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, § 6, 42 Stat. 9.)

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