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[CITE: 47USC28]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                       CHAPTER 2--SUBMARINE CABLES
 
Sec. 28. Penalties not to bar suits for damages

    The penalties provided in this chapter for the breaking or injury of 
a submarine cable shall not be a bar to a suit for damages on account of 
such breaking or injury.

(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, Sec. 8, 25 Stat. 42.)
