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[CITE: 47USC313]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO
 
                       Part I--General Provisions
 
Sec. 313. Application of antitrust laws to manufacture, sale, 
        and trade in radio apparatus
        

(a) Revocation of licenses

    All laws of the United States relating to unlawful restraints and 
monopolies and to combinations, contracts, or agreements in restraint of 
trade are declared to be applicable to the manufacture and sale of and 
to trade in radio apparatus and devices entering into or affecting 
interstate or foreign commerce and to interstate or foreign radio 
communications. Whenever in any suit, action, or proceeding, civil or 
criminal, brought under the provisions of any of said laws or in any 
proceedings brought to enforce or to review findings and orders of the 
Federal Trade Commission or other governmental agency in respect of any 
matters as to which said Commission or other governmental agency is by 
law authorized to act, any licensee shall be found guilty of the 
violation of the provisions of such laws or any of them, the court, in 
addition to the penalties imposed by said laws, may adjudge, order, and/
or decree that the license of such licensee shall, as of the date the 
decree or judgment becomes finally effective or as of such other date as 
the said decree shall fix, be revoked and that all rights under such 
license shall thereupon cease: Provided, however, That such licensee 
shall have the same right of appeal or review as is provided by law in 
respect of other decrees and judgments of said court.

(b) Refusal of licenses and permits

    The Commission is hereby directed to refuse a station license and/or 
the permit hereinafter required for the construction of a station to any 
person (or to any person directly or indirectly controlled by such 
person) whose license has been revoked by a court under this section.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 313, 48 Stat. 1087; Pub. L. 86-
752, Sec. 5(b), Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 893.)

                       References in Text

    All laws of the United States relating to unlawful restraints and 
monopolies and to combinations, contracts, or agreements in restraint of 
trade, referred to in subsec. (a), mean the antitrust laws which are 
classified generally to chapter 1 (Sec. 1 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce 
and Trade.


                               Amendments

    1960--Pub. L. 86-752 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsec. (b).

                          Transfer of Functions

    All executive and administrative functions of the Federal Trade 
Commission were, with certain exceptions, transferred to the Chairman of 
such Commission by Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 1950, Sec. 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 
15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1264, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees.
