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[CITE: 15USC1803]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                   CHAPTER 43--NEWSPAPER PRESERVATION
 
Sec. 1803. Antitrust exemptions


(a) Joint operating arrangements entered into prior to July 24, 1970

    It shall not be unlawful under any antitrust law for any person to 
perform, enforce, renew, or amend any joint newspaper operating 
arrangement entered into prior to July 24, 1970, if at the time at which 
such arrangement was first entered into, regardless of ownership or 
affiliations, not more than one of the newspaper publications involved 
in the performance of such arrangement was likely to remain or become a 
financially sound publication: Provided, That the terms of a renewal or 
amendment to a joint operating arrangement must be filed with the 
Department of Justice and that the amendment does not add a newspaper 
publication or newspaper publications to such arrangement.

(b) Written consent for future joint operating arrangements

    It shall be unlawful for any person to enter into, perform, or 
enforce a joint operating arrangement, not already in effect, except 
with the prior written consent of the Attorney General of the United 
States. Prior to granting such approval, the Attorney General shall 
determine that not more than one of the newspaper publications involved 
in the arrangement is a publication other than a failing newspaper, and 
that approval of such arrangement would effectuate the policy and 
purpose of this chapter.

(c) Predatory practices not exempt

    Nothing contained in the chapter shall be construed to exempt from 
any antitrust law any predatory pricing, any predatory practice, or any 
other conduct in the otherwise lawful operations of a joint newspaper 
operating arrangement which would be unlawful under any antitrust law if 
engaged in by a single entity. Except as provided in this chapter, no 
joint newspaper operating arrangement or any party thereto shall be 
exempt from any antitrust law.

(Pub. L. 91-353, Sec. 4, July 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 467.)

                       References in Text

    Any antitrust law, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), are the 
antitrust laws defined in section 1802 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1804 of this title.
