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[CITE: 47USC34]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                       CHAPTER 2--SUBMARINE CABLES
 
Sec. 34. Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting 
        United States with foreign country; necessity for
        
    No person shall land or operate in the United States any submarine 
cable directly or indirectly connecting the United States with any 
foreign country, or connecting one portion of the United States with any 
other portion thereof, unless a written license to land or operate such 
cable has been issued by the President of the United States. The 
conditions of sections 34 to 39 of this title shall not apply to cables, 
all of which, including both terminals, lie wholly within the 
continental United States.

(May 27, 1921, ch. 12, Sec. 1, 42 Stat. 8.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Submarine Cable Act which 
comprises this chapter.

                         Delegation of Functions

    For delegation of functions, vested in President by sections 34 to 
39 of this title, to Federal Communications Commission, see section 5(a) 
of Ex. Ord. No. 10530, eff. May 10, 1954, 19 F.R. 2709, set out under 
section 301 of Title 3, The President.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 36, 37, 38, 39 of this 
title.
