CHAPTER 2— SUBMARINE CABLES

Release point 118-34 · current through 12/26/2023

Sections

• § 21 Submarine cables; willful injury to; punishment
• § 22 Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment
• § 23 Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted
• § 24 Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys
• § 25 Fishing vessels; duty to keep nets from cables
• § 26 Duties of commanders of warships
• § 27 Offending vessels to show nationality
• § 28 Penalties not to bar suits for damages
• § 29 Master of offending vessel punishable
• § 30 Definitions
• § 31 Summary trials
• § 32 Application
• § 33 Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses
• § 34 Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for
• § 35 Withholding or revoking of licenses by President; terms and conditions of licenses
• § 36 Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction
• § 37 Violations; punishment
• § 38 “United States” defined
• § 39 Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted