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[CITE: 47USC205]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--COMMON CARRIERS
 
                    Part I--Common Carrier Regulation
 
Sec. 205. Commission authorized to prescribe just and reasonable 
        charges; penalties for violations
        
    (a) Whenever, after full opportunity for hearing, upon a complaint 
or under an order for investigation and hearing made by the Commission 
on its own initiative, the Commission shall be of opinion that any 
charge, classification, regulation, or practice of any carrier or 
carriers is or will be in violation of any of the provisions of this 
chapter, the Commission is authorized and empowered to determine and 
prescribe what will be the just and reasonable charge or the maximum or 
minimum, or maximum and minimum, charge or charges to be thereafter 
observed, and what classification, regulation, or practice is or will be 
just, fair, and reasonable, to be thereafter followed, and to make an 
order that the carrier or carriers shall cease and desist from such 
violation to the extent that the Commission finds that the same does or 
will exist, and shall not thereafter publish, demand, or collect any 
charge other than the charge so prescribed, or in excess of the maximum 
or less than the minimum so prescribed, as the case may be, and shall 
adopt the classification and shall conform to and observe the regulation 
or practice so prescribed.
    (b) Any carrier, any officer, representative, or agent of a carrier, 
or any receiver, trustee, lessee, or agent of either of them, who 
knowingly fails or neglects to obey any order made under the provisions 
of this section shall forfeit to the United States the sum of $12,000 
for each offense. Every distinct violation shall be a separate offense, 
and in case of continuing violation each day shall be deemed a separate 
offense.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, Sec. 205, 48 Stat. 1072; Pub. L. 101-
239, title III, Sec. 3002(c), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2131.)


                               Amendments

    1989--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 101-239 substituted ``$12,000'' for 
``$1,000''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 152 of this title.
