Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 2. Submarine Cables
19 sections
- 21Submarine cables; willful injury to; punishment
- 22Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment
- 23Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted
- 24Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys
- 25Fishing vessels; duty to keep nets from cables
- 26Duties of commanders of warships
- 27Offending vessels to show nationality
- 28Penalties not to bar suits for damages
- 29Master of offending vessel punishable
- 30Definitions
- 31Summary trials
- 32Application
- 33Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses
- 34Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for
- 35Withholding or revoking of licenses by President; terms and conditions of licenses
- 36Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction
- 37Violations; punishment
- 38“United States” defined
- 39Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted