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[CITE: 47USC559]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                  SUBCHAPTER V-A--CABLE COMMUNICATIONS
 
                    Part IV--Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Sec. 559. Obscene programming

    Whoever transmits over any cable system any matter which is obscene 
or otherwise unprotected by the Constitution of the United States shall 
be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VI, Sec. 639, as added Pub. L. 98-549, 
Sec. 2, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2801; amended Pub. L. 104-104, title V, 
Sec. 503, Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 136.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-104 substituted ``under title 18'' for ``not more 
than $10,000''.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective 60 days after Oct. 30, 1984, except where 
otherwise expressly provided, see section 9(a) of Pub. L. 98-549, set 
out as a note under section 521 of this title.
