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[CITE: 47USC217]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--COMMON CARRIERS
 
                    Part I--Common Carrier Regulation
 
Sec. 217. Agents' acts and omissions; liability of carrier

    In construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the act, 
omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other person acting for 
or employed by any common carrier or user, acting within the scope of 
his employment, shall in every case be also deemed to be the act, 
omission, or failure of such carrier or user as well as that of the 
person.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, Sec. 217, 48 Stat. 1077.)
