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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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[CITE: 47USC399a]

 
          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. 399a. Use of business or institutional logograms


(a) ``Business or institutional logogram'' defined

    For purposes of this section, the term ``business or institutional 
logogram'' means any aural or visual letters or words, or any symbol or 
sign, which is used for the exclusive purpose of identifying any 
corporation, company, or other organization, and which is not used for 
the purpose of promoting the products, services, or facilities of such 
corporation, company, or other organization.

(b) Permitted uses

    Each public television station and each public radio station shall 
be authorized to broadcast announcements which include the use of any 
business or institutional logogram and which include a reference to the 
location of the corporation, company, or other organization involved, 
except that such announcements may not interrupt regular programming.

(c) Authority of Commission not limited

    The provisions of this section shall not be construed to limit the 
authority of the Commission to prescribe regulations relating to the 
manner in which logograms may be used to identify corporations, 
companies, or other organizations.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 399A, as added Pub. L. 97-35, 
title XII, Sec. 1230, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 730.)
