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47 U.S.C. § 15Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines

submitted 138 years ago by ch. 772 to r/title-47-TELECOMMUNICATIONS · 133 words · no verdicts yet

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Congress keeps the right to change or cancel sections 1–6, 8, and 9–15 of this title whenever it decides justice or the public good requires it. Nothing here takes away any right, remedy, or FCC authority — including the FCC's power to set rules for government communications — that exists now or later.

This section is a single, undivided provision. This section makes clear that nothing in sections 9 through 15 of this title limits Congress's power. Congress keeps the right, at any future time, to alter, amend, or repeal sections 1 through 6 and section 8 of this title. Sections 9 through 15 themselves are also open to being altered, amended, or repealed, whenever Congress decides that justice or the public welfare calls for it. The section also protects other rights: nothing in it denies, excludes, or limits any right or remedy the United States already has or might have later. That includes the Federal Communications Commission's authority under the Communications Act of 1934 to set charges, classifications, regulations, and practices — including which communications get priority — for government communications.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Nothing in sections 9 to 15 of this title shall be construed to affect or impair the right of Congress, at any time hereafter, to alter, amend, or repeal sections 1 to 6 and 8 1 of this title; and sections 9 to 15 of this title shall be subject to alteration, amendment, or repeal as, in the opinion of Congress, justice or the public welfare may require; and nothing herein contained shall be held to deny, exclude, or impair any right or remedy in the premises now or hereafter existing in the United States, or the authority of the Federal Communications Commission under the provisions of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended [47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.], to prescribe charges, classifications, regulations, and practices, including priorities, applicable to Government communications.

Source credit: (Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 7, 25 Stat. 385; Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, § 49, 68 Stat. 1244.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1888Enacted · Act of Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772 · 25 Stat. 385
  • 1954Amended · Act of Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263 · 68 Stat. 1244

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 772 on 1888-08-07.

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