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United States Code U.S. Code: Title 47 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS § 151 - Purposes of chapter; Federal Communications Commission created
§ 152 - Application of chapter
§ 153 - Definitions
§ 154 - Federal Communications Commission
§ 155 - Commission
§ 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§ 302 - Repealed.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
§ 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
§ 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§ 328 - Repealed.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
§ 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
§ 340 - Significantly viewed signals permitted to be carried
§ 341 - Carriage of television signals to certain subscribers
§ 342 - Process for issuing qualified carrier certification
§ 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
§ 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
§ 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
§ 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
§ 506 - Repealed. Pub. L. 96–507, § 1, Dec. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 2747
§ 507 - Violation of Great Lakes Agreement
§ 508 - Disclosure of payments to individuals connected with broadcasts
§ 509 - Prohibited practices in contests of knowledge, skill, or chance
§ 510 - Forfeiture of communications devices
§ 521 - Purposes
§ 522 - Definitions
§ 531 - Cable channels for public, educational, or governmental use
§ 532 - Cable channels for commercial use
§ 533 - Ownership restrictions
§ 534 - Carriage of local commercial television signals
§ 535 - Carriage of noncommercial educational television
§ 536 - Regulation of carriage agreements
§ 537 - Sales of cable systems
§ 541 - General franchise requirements
§ 542 - Franchise fees
§ 543 - Regulation of rates
§ 544 - Regulation of services, facilities, and equipment
§ 544a - Consumer electronics equipment compatibility
§ 545 - Modification of franchise obligations
§ 546 - Renewal
§ 547 - Conditions of sale
§ 548 - Development of competition and diversity in video programming distribution
§ 549 - Competitive availability of navigation devices
§ 551 - Protection of subscriber privacy
§ 552 - Consumer protection and customer service
§ 553 - Unauthorized reception of cable service
§ 554 - Equal employment opportunity
§ 555 - Judicial proceedings
§ 555a - Limitation of franchising authority liability
§ 556 - Coordination of Federal, State, and local authority
§ 557 - Existing franchises
§ 558 - Criminal and civil liability
§ 559 - Obscene programming
§ 560 - Scrambling of cable channels for nonsubscribers
§ 561 - Scrambling of sexually explicit adult video service programming
§ 571 - Regulatory treatment of video programming services
§ 572 - Prohibition on buy outs
§ 573 - Establishment of open video systems
§ 601 - Interstate Commerce Commission and Postmaster General; duties, powers, and functions transferred to Commission
§ 602, 603 - Repealed. Pub. L. 103–414, title III, § 304(a)(13), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4297
§ 604 - Effect of transfer
§ 605 - Unauthorized publication or use of communications
§ 606 - War powers of President
§ 607 - Effective date of chapter
§ 608 - Separability
§ 609 - Short title
Statutes at Large
