47 U.S.C. § 217 — Agents’ acts and omissions; liability of carrier

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When interpreting and enforcing this chapter, an agent's act or failure to act counts as the carrier's own act. This applies whenever the agent or employee is acting for the carrier within the scope of their job.

This is one undivided rule. When courts and regulators interpret and enforce this chapter, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person who works for or is employed by a common carrier or user — as long as they're acting within the scope of their job — is always also treated as the act, omission, or failure of the carrier or user itself, not just of that individual person.

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In construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any common carrier or user, acting within the scope of his employment, shall in every case be also deemed to be the act, omission, or failure of such carrier or user as well as that of the person.

Source credit: (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, § 217, 48 Stat. 1077.)

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1934Enacted · Act of June 19, 1934, ch. 652 · 48 Stat. 1077

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 652 on 1934-06-19.

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