47 U.S.C. § 611 — Closed-captioning of public service announcements

submitted 92 years ago by Pub. L. 98-549 to r/title-47-TELECOMMUNICATIONS · 89 words · no verdicts yet

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Federal television public-service announcements must include closed captions. Stations have limited duties and liability when an announcement lacks or is not transmitted with captions.

A television public-service announcement produced or funded partly or wholly by a Federal agency or instrumentality must include closed captions for its spoken content. A television broadcast station licensee (1) does not have to supply captions for an announcement that does not include them, and (2) is not liable for broadcasting an announcement without transmitting captions unless it intentionally fails to transmit captions that were included with the announcement.

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Any television public service announcement that is produced or funded in whole or in part by any agency or instrumentality of Federal Government shall include closed captioning of the verbal content of such announcement. A television broadcast station licensee—

(1)

shall not be required to supply closed captioning for any such announcement that fails to include it; and

(2)

shall not be liable for broadcasting any such announcement without transmitting a closed caption unless the licensee intentionally fails to transmit the closed caption that was included with the announcement.

Source credit: (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VII, § 711, as added Pub. L. 98–549, § 8, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2804; amended Pub. L. 101–336, title IV, § 402, July 26, 1990, 104 Stat. 369.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1934Enacted · Pub. L. 98-549 · 98 Stat. 2804
1990Amended · Pub. L. 101-336 · 104 Stat. 369

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