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[CITE: 47USC202]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--COMMON CARRIERS
 
                    Part I--Common Carrier Regulation
 
Sec. 202. Discriminations and preferences


(a) Charges, services, etc.

    It shall be unlawful for any common carrier to make any unjust or 
unreasonable discrimination in charges, practices, classifications, 
regulations, facilities, or services for or in connection with like 
communication service, directly or indirectly, by any means or device, 
or to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to 
any particular person, class of persons, or locality, or to subject any 
particular person, class of persons, or locality to any undue or 
unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage.

(b) Charges or services included

    Charges or services, whenever referred to in this chapter, include 
charges for, or services in connection with, the use of common carrier 
lines of communication, whether derived from wire or radio facilities, 
in chain broadcasting or incidental to radio communication of any kind.

(c) Penalty

    Any carrier who knowingly violates the provisions of this section 
shall forfeit to the United States the sum of $6,000 for each such 
offense and $300 for each and every day of the continuance of such 
offense.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, Sec. 202, 48 Stat. 1070; Pub. L. 86-
751, Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 888; Pub. L. 101-239, title III, 
Sec. 3002(a), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2131.)


                               Amendments

    1989--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101-239 substituted ``$6,000'' for 
``$500'' and ``$300'' for ``$25''.
    1960--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86-751 substituted ``common carrier lines 
of communication, whether derived from wire or radio facilities,'' for 
``wires''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 152, 332 of this title.
