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[CITE: 47USC218]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--COMMON CARRIERS
 
                    Part I--Common Carrier Regulation
 
Sec. 218. Management of business; inquiries by Commission

    The Commission may inquire into the management of the business of 
all carriers subject to this chapter, and shall keep itself informed as 
to the manner and method in which the same is conducted and as to 
technical developments and improvements in wire and radio communication 
and radio transmission of energy to the end that the benefits of new 
inventions and developments may be made available to the people of the 
United States. The Commission may obtain from such carriers and from 
persons directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by, or under 
direct or indirect common control with, such carriers full and complete 
information necessary to enable the Commission to perform the duties and 
carry out the objects for which it was created.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, Sec. 218, 48 Stat. 1077.)
