Title 47 of the United States Code
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- § 1. to 6. Repealed. July 16, 1947, ch. 256, §1, 61 Stat. 327
- § 10. Equal facilities to connecting lines; discrimination in rates
- § 1001. Definitions
- § 1002. Assistance capability requirements
- § 1003. Notices of capacity requirements
- § 1004. Systems security and integrity
- § 1005. Cooperation of equipment manufacturers and providers of telecommunications support services
- § 1006. Technical requirements and standards; extension of compliance date
- § 1007. Enforcement orders
- § 1008. Payment of costs of telecommunications carriers to comply with capability requirements
- § 1009. Authorization of appropriations
- § 1010. Reports
- § 1021. Department of Justice Telecommunications Carrier Compliance Fund
- § 11. Powers of Federal Communications Commission
- § 1101. to 1110. Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, §6603(2), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4777
- § 12. Interference with liens of United States
- § 120. , 121. Omitted
- § 1201. Federal Communications Commission duties
- § 1202. Commercial Mobile Service Alert Advisory Committee
- § 1203. Research and development
- § 1204. Grant program for remote community alert systems
- § 1205. Funding
- § 1206. Reliable emergency alert distribution improvement
- § 13. Violations; punishment; action for damages
- § 1301. Findings
- § 1302. Advanced telecommunications incentives
- § 1303. Improving Federal data on broadband
- § 1304. Encouraging State initiatives to improve broadband
- § 1305. Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
- § 1306. Connecting minority communities
- § 1307. Office of Internet Connectivity and Growth
- § 1308. Interagency agreement
- § 14. Contracts filed with Federal Communications Commission; reports; failure to make
- § 1401. Definitions
- § 1402. Rule of construction
- § 1403. Enforcement
- § 1404. National security restrictions on use of funds and auction participation
- § 1411. Reallocation of D block to public safety
- § 1412. Flexible use of narrowband spectrum
- § 1413. Repealed. Pub. L. 116–260, div. FF, title IX, §902(b)(1), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 3206
- § 1421. Single public safety wireless network licensee
- § 1422. Public safety broadband network
- § 1423. Public safety Interoperability Board
- § 1424. Establishment of the First Responder Network Authority
- § 1425. Advisory committees of the First Responder Network Authority
- § 1426. Powers, duties, and responsibilities of the First Responder Network Authority
- § 1427. Initial funding for the First Responder Network Authority
- § 1428. Permanent self-funding; duty to assess and collect fees for network use
- § 1429. Audit and report
- § 1430. Annual report to Congress
- § 1431. Public safety roaming and priority access
- § 1432. Prohibition on direct offering of commercial telecommunications service directly to consumers
- § 1433. Provision of technical assistance
- § 1441. State and Local Implementation Fund
- § 1442. State and local implementation
- § 1443. Public safety wireless communications research and development
- § 1451. Deadlines for auction of certain spectrum
- § 1452. Special requirements for incentive auction of broadcast TV spectrum
- § 1453. Unlicensed use in the 5 GHZ band
- § 1454. Guard bands and unlicensed use
- § 1455. Wireless facilities deployment
- § 1456. System certification
- § 1457. Public Safety Trust Fund
- § 1471. Definitions
- § 1472. Parity of protection for provision or use of Next Generation 9–1–1 services
- § 1473. Commission proceeding on autodialing
- § 15. Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines
- § 1501. Definitions
- § 1502. Identifying 255 megahertz
- § 1503. Millimeter wave spectrum
- § 1504. Broadband infrastructure deployment
- § 1505. Unlicensed services in guard bands
- § 1506. Rulemaking related to partitioning or disaggregating licenses
- § 1507. Unlicensed spectrum policy
- § 1508. National plan for unlicensed spectrum
- § 1509. Spectrum Challenge Prize
- § 151. Purposes of chapter; Federal Communications Commission created
- § 1510. Wireless telecommunications tax and fee collection fairness
- § 1511. Rules of construction
- § 1512. Relationship to Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012
- § 1513. No additional funds authorized
- § 152. Application of chapter
- § 153. Definitions
- § 154. Federal Communications Commission
- § 155. Commission
- § 155a. Authority of Chief Information Officer
- § 156. Authorization of appropriations
- § 157. New technologies and services
- § 158. Application fees
- § 159. Regulatory fees
- § 159a. Provisions applicable to application and regulatory fees
- § 16. Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System; money transfers; portion of receipts withheld
- § 160. Competition in provision of telecommunications service
- § 1601. Determination of communications equipment or services posing national security risks
- § 1602. Prohibition on use of certain Federal subsidies
- § 1603. Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program
- § 1604. Reports on covered communications equipment or services
- § 1605. Hold harmless
- § 1606. Enforcement
- § 1607. NTIA program for preventing future vulnerabilities
- § 1608. Definitions
- § 1609. Severability
- § 161. Regulatory reform
- § 162. Additional research authorities of the FCC
- § 163. Communications marketplace report
- § 17. Repealed. Pub. L. 105–119, title VI, §620, Nov. 26, 1997, 111 Stat. 2519
- § 1701. Findings
- § 1702. Grants for broadband deployment
- § 1703. Broadband DATA maps
- § 1704. Broadband Deployment Locations Map
- § 1705. Grants for broadband connectivity
- § 1721. Definitions
- § 1722. Sense of Congress
- § 1723. State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program
- § 1724. Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program
- § 1725. Policy research, data collection, analysis and modeling, evaluation, and dissemination
- § 1726. General provisions
- § 1741. Enabling middle mile broadband infrastructure
- § 1751. Definitions
- § 1752. Benefit for broadband service
- § 1753. Adoption of consumer broadband labels
- § 1754. Digital discrimination
- § 201. Service and charges
- § 202. Discriminations and preferences
- § 203. Schedules of charges
- § 204. Hearings on new charges; suspension pending hearing; refunds; duration of hearing; appeal of order concluding hearing
- § 205. Commission authorized to prescribe just and reasonable charges; penalties for violations
- § 206. Carriers' liability for damages
- § 207. Recovery of damages
- § 208. Complaints to Commission; investigations; duration of investigation; appeal of order concluding investigation
- § 209. Orders for payment of money
- § 21. Submarine cables; willful injury to; punishment
- § 210. Franks and passes; free service to governmental agencies in connection with national defense
- § 211. Contracts of carriers; filing with Commission
- § 212. Interlocking directorates; officials dealing in securities
- § 213. Valuation of property of carrier
- § 214. Extension of lines or discontinuance of service; certificate of public convenience and necessity
- § 215. Examination of transactions relating to furnishing of services, equipment, etc.; reports to Congress
- § 216. Receivers and trustees; application of chapter
- § 217. Agents' acts and omissions; liability of carrier
- § 218. Management of business; inquiries by Commission
- § 219. Reports by carriers; contents and requirements generally
- § 22. Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment
- § 220. Accounts, records, and memoranda
- § 221. Consolidations and mergers of telephone companies
- § 222. Privacy of customer information
- § 223. Obscene or harassing telephone calls in the District of Columbia or in interstate or foreign communications
- § 224. Pole attachments
- § 225. Telecommunications services for hearing-impaired and speech-impaired individuals
- § 226. Telephone operator services
- § 227. Restrictions on use of telephone equipment
- § 227a. Consumer education materials on how to avoid scams that rely upon misleading or inaccurate caller identification information
- § 227b. –2. Provision of evidence of certain robocall violations to Attorney General
- § 228. Regulation of carrier offering of pay-per-call services
- § 229. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act compliance
- § 23. Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted
- § 230. Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material
- § 231. Restriction of access by minors to materials commercially distributed by means of World Wide Web that are harmful to minors
- § 24. Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys
- § 25. Fishing vessels; duty to keep nets from cables
- § 251. Interconnection
- § 251a. State authority over fees
- § 252. Procedures for negotiation, arbitration, and approval of agreements
- § 253. Removal of barriers to entry
- § 254. Universal service
- § 255. Access by persons with disabilities
- § 256. Coordination for interconnectivity
- § 257. Market entry barriers proceeding
- § 258. Illegal changes in subscriber carrier selections
- § 259. Infrastructure sharing
- § 26. Duties of commanders of warships
- § 260. Provision of telemessaging service
- § 261. Effect on other requirements
- § 262. Ensuring the integrity of voice communications
- § 27. Offending vessels to show nationality
- § 271. Bell operating company entry into interLATA services
- § 272. Separate affiliate; safeguards
- § 273. Manufacturing by Bell operating companies
- § 274. Electronic publishing by Bell operating companies
- § 275. Alarm monitoring services
- § 276. Provision of payphone service
- § 28. Penalties not to bar suits for damages
- § 29. Master of offending vessel punishable
- § 30. Definitions
- § 301. License for radio communication or transmission of energy
- § 302. Repealed. June 5, 1936, ch. 511, §1, 49 Stat. 1475
- § 302a. Devices which interfere with radio reception
- § 303. Powers and duties of Commission
- § 303a. Standards for children's television programming
- § 303b. Consideration of children's television service in broadcast license renewal
- § 303c. Television program improvement
- § 304. Waiver by license of claims to particular frequency or of electromagnetic spectrum
- § 305. Government owned stations
- § 306. Foreign ships; application of section 301
- § 307. Licenses
- § 308. Requirements for license
- § 309. Application for license
- § 309a. Reports related to spectrum auctions
- § 31. Summary trials
- § 310. License ownership restrictions
- § 311. Requirements as to certain applications in broadcasting service
- § 312. Administrative sanctions
- § 312a. Revocation of operator's license used in unlawful distribution of controlled substances
- § 313. Application of antitrust laws to manufacture, sale, and trade in radio apparatus
- § 314. Competition in commerce; preservation
- § 315. Candidates for public office
- § 316. Modification by Commission of station licenses or construction permits; burden of proof
- § 317. Announcement of payment for broadcast
- § 318. Transmitting apparatus; operator's license
- § 319. Construction permits
- § 32. Application
- § 320. Stations liable to interfere with distress signals; designation and regulation
- § 321. Distress signals and communications; equipment on vessels; regulations
- § 322. Exchanging radio communications between land and ship stations and from ship to ship
- § 323. Interference between Government and commercial stations
- § 324. Use of minimum power
- § 325. False, fraudulent, or unauthorized transmissions
- § 326. Censorship
- § 327. Naval stations; use for commercial messages; rates
- § 328. Repealed. Pub. L. 103–414, title III, §304(a)(10), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4297
- § 329. Administration of radio laws in Territories and possessions
- § 33. Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses
- § 330. Prohibition against shipment of certain television receivers
- § 331. Very high frequency stations and AM radio stations
- § 332. Mobile services
- § 333. Willful or malicious interference
- § 334. Limitation on revision of equal employment opportunity regulations
- § 335. Direct broadcast satellite service obligations
- § 336. Broadcast spectrum flexibility
- § 337. Allocation and assignment of new public safety services licenses and commercial licenses
- § 338. Carriage of local television signals by satellite carriers
- § 339. Carriage of distant television stations by satellite carriers
- § 34. Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for
- § 340. Significantly viewed signals permitted to be carried
- § 341. Carriage of television signals to certain subscribers
- § 342. Process for issuing qualified carrier certification
- § 343. Conditions on commercial terrestrial operations
- § 344. Repealed. Pub. L. 117–58, div. F, title VI, §60602(b), Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1249
- § 345. Protection of survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, and related crimes
- § 35. Withholding or revoking of licenses by President; terms and conditions of licenses
- § 351. Ship radio stations and operations
- § 352. Exemptions
- § 353. Radio equipment and operators
- § 353a. Operators and watches on radiotelephone equipped ships
- § 354. Technical requirements of equipment on radiotelegraph equipped ships
- § 354a. Technical requirements of equipment on radiotelephone equipped ships
- § 355. Survival craft
- § 356. Approval of installations by Commission
- § 357. Safety information
- § 358. Master's control over operations
- § 359. Certificates of compliance; issuance, modification, and cancellation
- § 36. Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction
- § 360. Station licenses; inspection of equipment by Commission
- § 361. Control by Commission; review of decisions
- § 362. Forfeitures; recovery
- § 363. Automated ship distress and safety systems
- § 37. Violations; punishment
- § 38. "United States" defined
- § 381. Vessels transporting more than six passengers for hire required to be equipped with radiotelephone
- § 382. Vessels excepted from radiotelephone requirement
- § 383. Exemptions by Commission
- § 384. Authority of Commission; operations, installations, and additional equipment
- § 385. Inspections
- § 386. Forfeitures
- § 39. Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted
- § 390. Declaration of purpose
- § 391. Authorization of appropriations
- § 392. Grants for construction
- § 392a. Repealed. Pub. L. 95–567, title II, §201, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2409
- § 393. Criteria for approval and expenditures by Secretary
- § 393a. Long-range planning for facilities
- § 394. Establishment of National Endowment
- § 395. Assistance for demonstration projects
- § 396. Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- § 397. Definitions
- § 398. Federal interference or control
- § 399. Support of political candidates prohibited
- § 399a. Use of business or institutional logograms
- § 399b. Offering of certain services, facilities, or products by public broadcast station
- § 401. Enforcement provisions
- § 402. Judicial review of Commission's orders and decisions
- § 403. Inquiry by Commission on its own motion
- § 404. Reports of investigations
- § 405. Petition for reconsideration; procedure; disposition; time of filing; additional evidence; time for disposition of petition for reconsideration of order concluding hearing or investigation; appeal of order
- § 406. Compelling furnishing of facilities; mandamus; jurisdiction
- § 407. Order for payment of money; petition for enforcement; procedure; order of Commission as prima facie evidence; costs; attorneys' fees
- § 408. Order not for payment of money; when effective
- § 409. Hearings
- § 410. Joint boards and commissions
- § 411. Joinder of parties
- § 412. Documents filed with Commission as public records; prima facie evidence; confidential records
- § 413. Designation of agent for service; method of service
- § 414. Exclusiveness of chapter
- § 415. Limitations of actions
- § 416. Orders of Commission
- § 501. General penalty
- § 502. Violation of rules, regulations, etc.
- § 503. Forfeitures
- § 504. Forfeitures
- § 505. Venue of trials