Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication
§ 502. Violation of rules, regulations, etc.
Statutory text
Any person who willfully and knowingly violates any rule, regulation, restriction, or condition made or imposed by the Commission under authority of this chapter, or any rule, regulation, restriction, or condition made or imposed by any international radio or wire communications treaty or convention, or regulations annexed thereto, to which the United States is or may hereafter become a party, shall, in addition to any other penalties provided by law, be punished, upon conviction thereof, by a fine of not more than $500 for each and every day during which such offense occurs.
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. 73–652 · 48 Stat. 1064
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 502
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title V, § 502, 48 Stat. 1100.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title V, § 502, 48 Stat. 1100.)
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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 V, § 502, 48 Stat. 1100.)