Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 31 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Service
§ 921. Congressional declaration of policy
Statutory text
It is declared to be the policy of the Congress that adequate telephone service be made generally available in rural areas through the improvement and expansion of existing telephone facilities and the construction and operation of such additional facilities as are required to assure the availability of adequate telephone service to the widest practicable number of rural users of such service.
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. 81–776 § 1 · 63 Stat. 948
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 921
(Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 776, § 1, 63 Stat. 948.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 776, § 1, 63 Stat. 948.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is composed of the first sentence of section 1 of act . The second sentence of section 1 of that act, which provided that: “In order to effectuate this policy, the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 [this chapter] is amended as hereinafter provided”
, is omitted from the Code.
Section was not enacted as part of title II of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 which comprises subchapter II of this chapter.
Credits
(Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 776, § 1, 63 Stat. 948.)