Title 47, Chapter 5
Telecommunications — 251 sections
- § 1 Section 1 - Duty to provide 9–1–1 and enhanced 9–1–1 service
- § 2 Section 2 - Provision of evidence of certain robocall violations to Attorney General
- § 151 Section 151 - Purposes of chapter; Federal Communications Commission created
- § 152 Section 152 - Application of chapter
- § 153 Section 153 - Definitions
- § 154 Section 154 - Federal Communications Commission
- § 155a Section 155a - Authority of Chief Information Officer
- § 155 Section 155 - Commission
- § 156 Section 156 - Authorization of appropriations
- § 157 Section 157 - New technologies and services
- § 158 Section 158 - Application fees
- § 159 Section 159 - Regulatory fees
- § 159a Section 159a - Provisions applicable to application and regulatory fees
- § 160 Section 160 - Competition in provision of telecommunications service
- § 161 Section 161 - Regulatory reform
- § 162 Section 162 - Additional research authorities of the FCC
- § 163 Section 163 - Communications marketplace report
- § 201 Section 201 - Service and charges
- § 202 Section 202 - Discriminations and preferences
- § 203 Section 203 - Schedules of charges
- § 204 Section 204 - Hearings on new charges; suspension pending hearing; refunds; duration of hearing; appeal of order concluding hearing
- § 205 Section 205 - Commission authorized to prescribe just and reasonable charges; penalties for violations
- § 206 Section 206 - Carriers’ liability for damages
- § 207 Section 207 - Recovery of damages
- § 208 Section 208 - Complaints to Commission; investigations; duration of investigation; appeal of order concluding investigation
- § 209 Section 209 - Orders for payment of money
- § 210 Section 210 - Franks and passes; free service to governmental agencies in connection with national defense
- § 211 Section 211 - Contracts of carriers; filing with Commission
- § 212 Section 212 - Interlocking directorates; officials dealing in securities
- § 213 Section 213 - Valuation of property of carrier
- § 214 Section 214 - Extension of lines or discontinuance of service; certificate of public convenience and necessity
- § 215 Section 215 - Examination of transactions relating to furnishing of services, equipment, etc.; reports to Congress
- § 216 Section 216 - Receivers and trustees; application of chapter
- § 217 Section 217 - Agents’ acts and omissions; liability of carrier
- § 218 Section 218 - Management of business; inquiries by Commission
- § 219 Section 219 - Reports by carriers; contents and requirements generally
- § 220 Section 220 - Accounts, records, and memoranda
- § 221 Section 221 - Consolidations and mergers of telephone companies
- § 222 Section 222 - Privacy of customer information
- § 223 Section 223 - Obscene or harassing telephone calls in the District of Columbia or in interstate or foreign communications
- § 223a Section 223a - Notice and removal of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions
- § 224 Section 224 - Pole attachments
- § 225 Section 225 - Telecommunications services for hearing-impaired and speech-impaired individuals
- § 226 Section 226 - Telephone operator services
- § 227 Section 227 - Restrictions on use of telephone equipment
- § 227a Section 227a - Consumer education materials on how to avoid scams that rely upon misleading or inaccurate caller identification information
- § 227b Section 227b - Call authentication
- § 228 Section 228 - Regulation of carrier offering of pay-per-call services
- § 229 Section 229 - Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act compliance
- § 230 Section 230 - Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material
- § 231 Section 231 - Restriction of access by minors to materials commercially distributed by means of World Wide Web that are harmful to minors
- § 251 Section 251 - Interconnection
- § 251a Section 251a - State authority over fees
- § 252 Section 252 - Procedures for negotiation, arbitration, and approval of agreements
- § 253 Section 253 - Removal of barriers to entry
- § 254 Section 254 - Universal service
- § 255 Section 255 - Access by persons with disabilities
- § 256 Section 256 - Coordination for interconnectivity
- § 257 Section 257 - Market entry barriers proceeding
- § 258 Section 258 - Illegal changes in subscriber carrier selections
- § 259 Section 259 - Infrastructure sharing
- § 260 Section 260 - Provision of telemessaging service
- § 261 Section 261 - Effect on other requirements
- § 262 Section 262 - Ensuring the integrity of voice communications
- § 271 Section 271 - Bell operating company entry into interLATA services
- § 272 Section 272 - Separate affiliate; safeguards
- § 273 Section 273 - Manufacturing by Bell operating companies
- § 274 Section 274 - Electronic publishing by Bell operating companies
- § 275 Section 275 - Alarm monitoring services
- § 276 Section 276 - Provision of payphone service
- § 301 Section 301 - License for radio communication or transmission of energy
- § 302 Section 302 - Repealed. June 5, 1936, ch. 511 , § 1, 49 Stat. 1475
- § 302a Section 302a - Devices which interfere with radio reception
- § 303 Section 303 - Powers and duties of Commission
- § 303a Section 303a - Standards for children’s television programming
- § 303c Section 303c - Television program improvement
- § 303b Section 303b - Consideration of children’s television service in broadcast license renewal
- § 304 Section 304 - Waiver by license of claims to particular frequency or of electromagnetic spectrum
- § 305 Section 305 - Government owned stations
- § 306 Section 306 - Foreign ships; application of section 301
- § 307 Section 307 - Licenses
- § 308 Section 308 - Requirements for license
- § 309a Section 309a - Reports related to spectrum auctions
- § 309 Section 309 - Application for license
- § 310 Section 310 - License ownership restrictions
- § 311 Section 311 - Requirements as to certain applications in broadcasting service
- § 312 Section 312 - Administrative sanctions
- § 312a Section 312a - Revocation of operator’s license used in unlawful distribution of controlled substances
- § 313 Section 313 - Application of antitrust laws to manufacture, sale, and trade in radio apparatus
- § 314 Section 314 - Competition in commerce; preservation
- § 315 Section 315 - Candidates for public office
- § 316 Section 316 - Modification by Commission of station licenses or construction permits; burden of proof
- § 317 Section 317 - Announcement of payment for broadcast
- § 318 Section 318 - Transmitting apparatus; operator’s license
- § 319 Section 319 - Construction permits
- § 320 Section 320 - Stations liable to interfere with distress signals; designation and regulation
- § 321 Section 321 - Distress signals and communications; equipment on vessels; regulations
- § 322 Section 322 - Exchanging radio communications between land and ship stations and from ship to ship
- § 323 Section 323 - Interference between Government and commercial stations
- § 324 Section 324 - Use of minimum power
- § 325 Section 325 - False, fraudulent, or unauthorized transmissions
- § 326 Section 326 - Censorship
- § 327 Section 327 - Naval stations; use for commercial messages; rates
- § 328 Section 328 - Repealed. Pub. L. 103–414, title III , § 304(a)(10), Oct. 25, 1994 , 108 Stat. 4297
- § 329 Section 329 - Administration of radio laws in Territories and possessions
- § 330 Section 330 - Prohibition against shipment of certain television receivers
- § 331 Section 331 - Very high frequency stations and AM radio stations
- § 332 Section 332 - Mobile services
- § 333 Section 333 - Willful or malicious interference
- § 334 Section 334 - Limitation on revision of equal employment opportunity regulations
- § 335 Section 335 - Direct broadcast satellite service obligations
- § 336 Section 336 - Broadcast spectrum flexibility
- § 337 Section 337 - Allocation and assignment of new public safety services licenses and commercial licenses
- § 338 Section 338 - Carriage of local television signals by satellite carriers
- § 339 Section 339 - Carriage of distant television stations by satellite carriers
- § 340 Section 340 - Significantly viewed signals permitted to be carried
- § 341 Section 341 - Carriage of television signals to certain subscribers
- § 342 Section 342 - Process for issuing qualified carrier certification
- § 343 Section 343 - Conditions on commercial terrestrial operations
- § 344 Section 344 - Repealed. Pub. L. 117–58, div. F, title VI, § 60602(b) , Nov. 15, 2021 , 135 Stat. 1249
- § 345 Section 345 - Protection of survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, and related crimes
- § 351 Section 351 - Ship radio stations and operations
- § 352 Section 352 - Exemptions
- § 353 Section 353 - Radio equipment and operators
- § 353a Section 353a - Operators and watches on radiotelephone equipped ships
- § 354 Section 354 - Technical requirements of equipment on radiotelegraph equipped ships
- § 354a Section 354a - Technical requirements of equipment on radiotelephone equipped ships
- § 355 Section 355 - Survival craft
- § 356 Section 356 - Approval of installations by Commission
- § 357 Section 357 - Safety information
- § 358 Section 358 - Master’s control over operations
- § 359 Section 359 - Certificates of compliance; issuance, modification, and cancellation
- § 360 Section 360 - Station licenses; inspection of equipment by Commission
- § 361 Section 361 - Control by Commission; review of decisions
- § 362 Section 362 - Forfeitures; recovery
- § 363 Section 363 - Automated ship distress and safety systems
- § 381 Section 381 - Vessels transporting more than six passengers for hire required to be equipped with radiotelephone
- § 382 Section 382 - Vessels excepted from radiotelephone requirement
- § 383 Section 383 - Exemptions by Commission
- § 384 Section 384 - Authority of Commission; operations, installations, and additional equipment
- § 385 Section 385 - Inspections
- § 386 Section 386 - Forfeitures
- § 390 Section 390 - Declaration of purpose
- § 391 Section 391 - Authorization of appropriations
- § 392 Section 392 - Grants for construction
- § 392a Section 392a - Repealed. Pub. L. 95–567, title II , § 201, Nov. 2, 1978 , 92 Stat. 2409
- § 393 Section 393 - Criteria for approval and expenditures by Secretary
- § 393a Section 393a - Long-range planning for facilities
- § 394 Section 394 - Establishment of National Endowment
- § 395 Section 395 - Assistance for demonstration projects
- § 396 Section 396 - Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- § 397 Section 397 - Definitions
- § 398 Section 398 - Federal interference or control
- § 399 Section 399 - Support of political candidates prohibited
- § 399a Section 399a - Use of business or institutional logograms
- § 399b Section 399b - Offering of certain services, facilities, or products by public broadcast station
- § 401 Section 401 - Enforcement provisions
- § 402 Section 402 - Judicial review of Commission’s orders and decisions
- § 403 Section 403 - Inquiry by Commission on its own motion
- § 404 Section 404 - Reports of investigations
- § 405 Section 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 Section 406 - Compelling furnishing of facilities; mandamus; jurisdiction
- § 407 Section 407 - Order for payment of money; petition for enforcement; procedure; order of Commission as prima facie evidence; costs; attorneys’ fees
- § 408 Section 408 - Order not for payment of money; when effective
- § 409 Section 409 - Hearings
- § 410 Section 410 - Joint boards and commissions
- § 411 Section 411 - Joinder of parties
- § 412 Section 412 - Documents filed with Commission as public records; prima facie evidence; confidential records
- § 413 Section 413 - Designation of agent for service; method of service
- § 414 Section 414 - Exclusiveness of chapter
- § 415 Section 415 - Limitations of actions
- § 416 Section 416 - Orders of Commission
- § 501 Section 501 - General penalty
- § 502 Section 502 - Violation of rules, regulations, etc.
- § 503 Section 503 - Forfeitures
- § 504 Section 504 - Forfeitures
- § 505 Section 505 - Venue of trials
- § 506 Section 506 - Repealed. Pub. L. 96–507 , § 1, Dec. 8, 1980 , 94 Stat. 2747
- § 507 Section 507 - Violation of Great Lakes Agreement
- § 508 Section 508 - Disclosure of payments to individuals connected with broadcasts
- § 509 Section 509 - Prohibited practices in contests of knowledge, skill, or chance
- § 510 Section 510 - Forfeiture of communications devices
- § 511 Section 511 - Enhanced penalties for pirate radio broadcasting; enforcement sweeps; reporting
- § 521 Section 521 - Purposes
- § 522 Section 522 - Definitions
- § 531 Section 531 - Cable channels for public, educational, or governmental use
- § 532 Section 532 - Cable channels for commercial use
- § 533 Section 533 - Ownership restrictions
- § 534 Section 534 - Carriage of local commercial television signals
- § 535 Section 535 - Carriage of noncommercial educational television
- § 536 Section 536 - Regulation of carriage agreements
- § 537 Section 537 - Sales of cable systems
- § 537a Section 537a - Carriage of certain programming
- § 541 Section 541 - General franchise requirements
- § 542 Section 542 - Franchise fees
- § 543 Section 543 - Regulation of rates
- § 544 Section 544 - Regulation of services, facilities, and equipment
- § 544a Section 544a - Consumer electronics equipment compatibility
- § 545 Section 545 - Modification of franchise obligations
- § 546 Section 546 - Renewal
- § 547 Section 547 - Conditions of sale
- § 548 Section 548 - Development of competition and diversity in video programming distribution
- § 549 Section 549 - Competitive availability of navigation devices
- § 551 Section 551 - Protection of subscriber privacy
- § 552 Section 552 - Consumer protection and customer service
- § 553 Section 553 - Unauthorized reception of cable service
- § 554 Section 554 - Equal employment opportunity
- § 555 Section 555 - Judicial proceedings
- § 555a Section 555a - Limitation of franchising authority liability
- § 556 Section 556 - Coordination of Federal, State, and local authority
- § 557 Section 557 - Existing franchises
- § 558 Section 558 - Criminal and civil liability
- § 559 Section 559 - Obscene programming
- § 560 Section 560 - Scrambling of cable channels for nonsubscribers
- § 561 Section 561 - Scrambling of sexually explicit adult video service programming
- § 562 Section 562 - Requirements relating to charges for covered services
- § 571 Section 571 - Regulatory treatment of video programming services
- § 572 Section 572 - Prohibition on buy outs
- § 573 Section 573 - Establishment of open video systems
- § 601 Section 601 - Interstate Commerce Commission and Postmaster General; duties, powers, and functions transferred to Commission
- § 603 Section 603 - Repealed. Pub. L. 103–414, title III , § 304(a)(13), Oct. 25, 1994 , 108 Stat. 4297
- § 604 Section 604 - Effect of transfer
- § 605 Section 605 - Unauthorized publication or use of communications
- § 606 Section 606 - War powers of President
- § 607 Section 607 - Effective date of chapter
- § 608 Section 608 - Separability
- § 609 Section 609 - Short title
- § 610 Section 610 - Telephone service for disabled
- § 611 Section 611 - Closed-captioning of public service announcements
- § 612 Section 612 - Syndicated exclusivity
- § 613 Section 613 - Video programming accessibility
- § 614 Section 614 - Telecommunications Development Fund
- § 615 Section 615 - Support for universal emergency telephone number
- § 615a Section 615a - Service provider parity of protection
- § 615b Section 615b - Definitions
- § 615c Section 615c - Emergency Access Advisory Committee
- § 616 Section 616 - Internet protocol-based relay services
- § 617 Section 617 - Access to advanced communications services and equipment
- § 618 Section 618 - Enforcement and recordkeeping obligations
- § 619 Section 619 - Internet browsers built into telephones used with public mobile services
- § 620 Section 620 - Relay services for deaf-blind individuals
- § 621 Section 621 - Rulemaking on loud commercials required
- § 622 Section 622 - Optional electronic labeling of communications equipment
- § 623 Section 623 - Configuration of multi-line telephone systems for direct dialing of 9–1–1.
- § 624 Section 624 - Disclosure requirements for United States-based foreign media outlets
- § 641 Section 641 - Definitions
- § 642 Section 642 - Broadband maps
- § 643 Section 643 - Enforcement
- § 644 Section 644 - Improving data accuracy
- § 645 Section 645 - Cost
- § 646 Section 646 - Other provisions