Title 47 — TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• § 9— Subsidized companies required to construct and operate lines
• § 10— Equal facilities to connecting lines; discrimination in rates
• § 11— Powers of Federal Communications Commission
• § 12— Interference with liens of United States
• § 13— Violations; punishment; action for damages
• § 14— Contracts filed with Federal Communications Commission; reports; failure to make
• § 15— Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines
• § 16— Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System; money transfers; portion of receipts withheld
• § 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
• § 151— Purposes of chapter; Federal Communications Commission created
• § 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
• § 160— Competition in provision of telecommunications service
• § 161— Regulatory reform
• § 162— Additional research authorities of the FCC
• § 163— Communications marketplace report
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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
• § 223a— Notice and removal of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions
• § 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— Call authentication
• § 227b–1— Access to number resources
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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
• § 260— Provision of telemessaging service
• § 261— Effect on other requirements
• § 262— Ensuring the integrity of voice communications
• § 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
• § 301— License for radio communication or transmission of energy
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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
• § 343— Conditions on commercial terrestrial operations
• § 345— Protection of survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, and related crimes
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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
• § 511— Enhanced penalties for pirate radio broadcasting; enforcement sweeps; reporting
• § 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
• § 537a— Carriage of certain programming
• § 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
• § 562— Requirements relating to charges for covered services
• § 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
• § 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
• § 610— Telephone service for disabled
• § 611— Closed-captioning of public service announcements
• § 612— Syndicated exclusivity
• § 613— Video programming accessibility
• § 614— Telecommunications Development Fund
• § 615— Support for universal emergency telephone number
• § 615a— Service provider parity of protection
• § 615a–1— Duty to provide 9–1–1 and enhanced 9–1–1 service
• § 615b— Definitions
• § 615c— Emergency Access Advisory Committee
• § 616— Internet protocol-based relay services
• § 617— Access to advanced communications services and equipment
• § 618— Enforcement and recordkeeping obligations
• § 619— Internet browsers built into telephones used with public mobile services
• § 620— Relay services for deaf-blind individuals
• § 621— Rulemaking on loud commercials required
• § 622— Optional electronic labeling of communications equipment
• § 623— Configuration of multi-line telephone systems for direct dialing of 9–1–1.
• § 624— Disclosure requirements for United States-based foreign media outlets
• § 641— Definitions
• § 642— Broadband maps
• § 643— Enforcement
• § 644— Improving data accuracy
• § 645— Cost
• § 646— Other provisions
• § 702— Definitions
• § 721— Implementation of policy
• § 753— Implementation of policy
• § 757— Definitions
• § 761— Federal Communications Commission licensing
• § 761a— Incentives; limitation on expansion pending privatization
• § 763— General criteria to ensure a pro-competitive privatization of INTELSAT and Inmarsat
• § 763a— Specific criteria for INTELSAT
• § 763c— Space segment capacity of the GMDSS
• § 763d— Encouraging market access and privatization
• § 765— Access to INTELSAT
• § 765a— Signatory role
• § 765b— Elimination of procurement preferences
• § 765c— ITU functions
• § 765d— Termination of provisions of this chapter
• § 765f— Satellite auctions
• § 765g— Exclusivity arrangements
• § 767— Methods to pursue privatization
• § 769— Definitions
• § 901— Definitions; findings; policy
• § 902— Establishment; assigned functions
• § 903— Spectrum management activities
• § 904— General administrative provisions
• § 906— Wireless supply chain innovation and multilateral security
• § 921— Definitions
• § 922— National spectrum allocation planning
• § 923— Identification of reallocable frequencies
• § 924— Withdrawal or limitation of assignment to Federal Government stations
• § 925— Distribution of frequencies by Commission
• § 926— Authority to recover reassigned frequencies
• § 927— Existing allocation and transfer authority retained
• § 928— Spectrum Relocation Fund
• § 929— National security and other sensitive information
• § 941— Child-friendly second-level Internet domain
• § 942— Coordination of 9–1–1, E9–1–1, and Next Generation 9–1–1 implementation
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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
• § 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