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[CITE: 47USC399]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO
 
      Part IV--Assistance for Planning and Construction of Public 
   Telecommunications Facilities; Telecommunications Demonstrations; 
         Corporation for Public Broadcasting; General Provisions
 
                      subpart e--general provisions
 
Sec. 399. Support of political candidates prohibited

    No noncommercial educational broadcasting station may support or 
oppose any candidate for political office.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 399, as added Pub. L. 90-129, 
title II, Sec. 201(8), Nov. 7, 1967, 81 Stat. 368; amended Pub. L. 93-
84, Sec. 2, Aug. 6, 1973, 87 Stat. 219; Pub. L. 94-309, Sec. 7, June 5, 
1976, 90 Stat. 685; Pub. L. 97-35, title XII, Sec. 1229, Aug. 13, 1981, 
95 Stat. 730; Pub. L. 100-626, Sec. 10, Nov. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 3211.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-626, in section catchline, substituted ``Support 
of'' for ``Editorializing and support of'', and in text, struck out 
provisions which prohibited editorializing by noncommercial educational 
broadcasting station which receives grant from Corporation under subpart 
C of this part.
    1981--Pub. L. 97-35 revised subsec. (a) into existing provisions 
and, as so revised, added requirement respecting grant under subpart C 
of this part, and struck out subsec. (b), which related to program 
recording of broadcasts where issues of public importance are discussed.
    1976--Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 94-309 added par. (5).
    1973--Pub. L. 93-84 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsec. (b).
