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[CITE: 47USC399b]

 
          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. 399b. Offering of certain services, facilities, or products 
        by public broadcast station
        

(a) ``Advertisement'' defined

    For purposes of this section, the term ``advertisement'' means any 
message or other programming material which is broadcast or otherwise 
transmitted in exchange for any remuneration, and which is intended--
        (1) to promote any service, facility, or product offered by any 
    person who is engaged in such offering for profit;
        (2) to express the views of any person with respect to any 
    matter of public importance or interest; or
        (3) to support or oppose any candidate for political office.

(b) Offering of services, facilities, or products permitted; 
        advertisements prohibited

    (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), each public broadcast 
station shall be authorized to engage in the offering of services, 
facilities, or products in exchange for remuneration.
    (2) No public broadcast station may make its facilities available to 
any person for the broadcasting of any advertisement.

(c) Use of funds from offering services, etc.

    Any public broadcast station which engages in any offering specified 
in subsection (b)(1) of this section may not use any funds distributed 
by the Corporation under section 396(k) of this title to defray any 
costs associated with such offering. Any such offering by a public 
broadcast station shall not interfere with the provision of public 
telecommunications services by such station.

(d) Development of accounting system

    Each public broadcast station which engages in the activity 
specified in subsection (b)(1) of this section shall, in consultation 
with the Corporation, develop an accounting system which is designed to 
identify any amounts received as remuneration for, or costs related to, 
such activities under this section, and to account for such amounts 
separately from any other amounts received by such station from any 
source.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 399B, as added Pub. L. 97-35, 
title XII, Sec. 1231, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 731.)
