47 U.S.C. Chapter 5 — WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
- § 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