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[CITE: 47USC23]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                       CHAPTER 2--SUBMARINE CABLES
 
Sec. 23. Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life 
        excepted
        
    The provisions of sections 21 and 22 of this title shall not apply 
to a person who breaks or injures a cable in an effort to save the life 
or limb of himself or of any other person, or to save his own or any 
other vessel: Provided, That he takes reasonable precautions to avoid 
such breaking or injury.

(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, Sec. 3, 25 Stat. 41.)
