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47 U.S.C. § 23 — Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted
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Sections 21 and 22's cable-damage crimes don't apply to someone who breaks a cable while saving a life, limb, or vessel. The person must still take reasonable precautions to avoid the damage.
This law creates an exception to the cable-damage crimes in sections 21 and 22 of this title. Those sections do not apply to a person who breaks or injures a cable in an effort to save the life or limb of themselves or of any other person, or to save their own or any other vessel — provided the person takes reasonable precautions to avoid such breaking or injury.
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The provisions of sections 21 and 22 of this title shall not apply to a person who breaks or injures a cable in an effort to save the life or limb of himself or of any other person, or to save his own or any other vessel: Provided, That he takes reasonable precautions to avoid such breaking or injury.
Source credit: (Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 3, 25 Stat. 41.)
history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
- 1888Enacted · Act of Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17 · 25 Stat. 41
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 17 on 1888-02-29.
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