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[CITE: 47USC33]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                       CHAPTER 2--SUBMARINE CABLES
 
Sec. 33. Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses

    The district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction 
over all offenses against this chapter and of all suits of a civil 
nature arising thereunder, whether the infraction complained of shall 
have been committed within the territorial waters of the United States 
or on board a vessel of the United States outside of said waters. From 
the decrees and judgments of the district courts in actions and suits 
arising under this chapter appeals shall be allowed as provided by law 
in other cases. Criminal actions and proceedings for a violation of the 
provisions of this chapter shall be commenced and prosecuted in the 
district court for the district within which the offense was committed, 
and when not committed within any judicial district, then in the 
district court for the district within which the offender may be found; 
and suits of a civil nature may be commenced in the district court for 
any district within which the defendant may be found and shall be served 
with process.

(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, Sec. 13, 25 Stat. 42; Jan. 31, 1928, ch. 14, 
Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 54.)

                          Codification

    Words ``and writs of error'' after ``appeals'' deleted in view of 
section 1 of act Jan. 31, 1928, which abolished writs of error and 
provided for similar relief by appeal.


                   Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure

    Special venue provisions of section as not affected by rule 18, see 
Notes of Advisory Committee on Rules set out under rule 18, Title 18, 
Appendix, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.


                            Cross References

    Venue in civil actions generally, see section 1391 of Title 28, 
Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
