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[CITE: 47USC327]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO
 
                       Part I--General Provisions
 
Sec. 327. Naval stations; use for commercial messages; rates

    The Secretary of the Navy is authorized, unless restrained by 
international agreement, under the terms and conditions and at rates 
prescribed by him, which rates shall be just and reasonable, and which, 
upon complaint, shall be subject to review and revision by the 
Commission, to use all radio stations and apparatus, wherever located, 
owned by the United States and under the control of the Navy Department, 
(a) for the reception and transmission of press messages offered by any 
newspaper published in the United States, its Territories or 
possessions, or published by citizens of the United States in foreign 
countries, or by any press association of the United States, and (b) for 
the reception and transmission of private commercial messages between 
ships, between ship and shore, between localities in Alaska and between 
Alaska and the continental United States: Provided, That the rates fixed 
for the reception and transmission of all such messages, other than 
press messages between the Pacific coast of the United States, Hawaii, 
Alaska, Guam, American Samoa, the Philippine Islands, and the Orient, 
and between the United States and the Virgin Islands, shall not be less 
than the rates charged by privately owned and operated stations for like 
messages and service: Provided further, That the right to use such 
stations for any of the purposes named in this section shall terminate 
and cease as between any countries or localities or between any locality 
and privately operated ships whenever privately owned and operated 
stations are capable of meeting the normal communication requirements 
between such countries or localities or between any locality and 
privately operated ships, and the Commission shall have notified the 
Secretary of the Navy thereof.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 327, 48 Stat. 1091.)

                       References in Text

    The Philippine Islands, referred to in text, were granted their 
independence by Proc. No. 2695, eff. July 4, 1946, 11 F.R. 7517, 60 
Stat. 1352, issued pursuant to section 1394 of Title 22, Foreign 
Relations and Intercourse, and set out under that section. They are now 
known as the Republic of the Philippines.
