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47 U.S.C. § 313 — Application of antitrust laws to manufacture, sale, and trade in radio apparatus

submitted 92 years ago by ch. 652 to r/title-47-TELECOMMUNICATIONS · 280 words · no verdicts yet

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U.S. antitrust laws apply fully to making, selling, and trading radio equipment and to radio communications. If a court finds a radio licensee violated antitrust law, it can also revoke that person's license. A licensee who loses their license this way can appeal like in any other court case.

(a) Revocation of licenses. All U.S. laws against unlawful restraints, monopolies, and anti-competitive combinations, contracts, or agreements apply to making and selling radio equipment and devices that affect interstate or foreign commerce, and to interstate or foreign radio communications. If, in any civil or criminal case brought under those laws — or in a case reviewing findings and orders by the Federal Trade Commission or another agency with legal authority over the matter — a court finds a licensee guilty of violating those laws, the court may, on top of other penalties, order that the license be revoked and all rights under it end, as of the date its decree becomes final or another date the court sets. The licensee keeps the same right to appeal or seek review as with any other court decree or judgment.

(b) Refusal of licenses and permits. The Commission must refuse to grant a station license, or the permit required to build a station, to anyone — or to anyone directly or indirectly controlled by them — whose license a court has revoked under this section.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain
(a) Revocation of licenses

All laws of the United States relating to unlawful restraints and monopolies and to combinations, contracts, or agreements in restraint of trade are declared to be applicable to the manufacture and sale of and to trade in radio apparatus and devices entering into or affecting interstate or foreign commerce and to interstate or foreign radio communications. Whenever in any suit, action, or proceeding, civil or criminal, brought under the provisions of any of said laws or in any proceedings brought to enforce or to review findings and orders of the Federal Trade Commission or other governmental agency in respect of any matters as to which said Commission or other governmental agency is by law authorized to act, any licensee shall be found guilty of the violation of the provisions of such laws or any of them, the court, in addition to the penalties imposed by said laws, may adjudge, order, and/or decree that the license of such licensee shall, as of the date the decree or judgment becomes finally effective or as of such other date as the said decree shall fix, be revoked and that all rights under such license shall thereupon cease: Provided, however, That such licensee shall have the same right of appeal or review as is provided by law in respect of other decrees and judgments of said court.

(b) Refusal of licenses and permits

The Commission is hereby directed to refuse a station license and/or the permit hereinafter required for the construction of a station to any person (or to any person directly or indirectly controlled by such person) whose license has been revoked by a court under this section.

Source credit: (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 313, 48 Stat. 1087; Pub. L. 86–752, § 5(b), Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 893.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1934Enacted · Act of June 19, 1934, ch. 652 · 48 Stat. 1087
  • 1960Amended · Pub. L. 86-752 · 74 Stat. 893

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

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