§ 508. Disclosure of payments to individuals connected with broadcasts

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. 1934

   Communications Act Amendments, 1960

   Pub. L. 86–752 § 8(b) · 74 Stat. 889

   Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 508

   June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title V, § 507, formerly § 508, as added Pub. L. 86–752, § 8(b), Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 896

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title V, § 507, formerly § 508, as added Pub. L. 86–752, § 8(b), Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 896

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) Title V of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C., subchapter 47 USC 501 et seq. V) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following section: “Sec. 508. “disclosure of certain payments (a) Subject to subsection (d), any employee of a radio station who accepts or agrees to accept from any person (other than such station), or any person (other than such station) who pays or agrees to pay such employee, any money, service or other valuable consideration for the broadcast of any matter over such station shall, in advance of such broadcast, disclose the fact of such acceptance or agreement to such station. “(b) Subject to subsection (d), any person who, in connection with the production or preparation of any program or program matter which is intended for broadcasting over any radio station, accepts or agrees to accept, or pays or agrees to pay, any money, service or other valuable consideration for the inclusion of any matter as a part of such program or program matter, shall, in advance of such broadcast, disclose the fact of such acceptance or payment or agreement to the payee’s employer, or to the person for whom such program or program matter is being produced, or to the licensee of such station over which such program is broadcast. “(c) Subject to subsection (d), any person who supplies to any other person any program or program matter which is intended for broadcasting over any radio station shall, in advance of such broadcast, disclose to such other person any information of which he has knowledge, or which has been disclosed to him, as to any money, service or other valuable consideration which any person has paid or accepted, or has agreed to pay or accept, for the inclusion of any matter as a part of such program or program matter. “(d) The provisions of this section requiring the disclosure of information shall not apply in any case where, because of a waiver made Supra. by the Commission under section 317(d), an announcement is not required to be made under section 317. “(e) The inclusion in the program of the announcement required by section 317 shall constitute the disclosure required by this section. “(f) The term ‘service or other valuable consideration’ as used in this section shall not include any service or property furnished without charge or at a nominal charge for use on, or in connection with, a broadcast, or for use on a program which is intended for broadcasting over any radio station, unless it is so furnished in consideration for an identification in such broadcast or in such program of any person, product, service, trademark, or brand name beyond an identification which is reasonably related to the use of such service or property in such broadcast or such program. “(g) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, Penalty. for each such violation, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

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