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