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[CITE: 47USC611]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER VI--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 611. Closed-captioning of public service announcements

    Any television public service announcement that is produced or 
funded in whole or in part by any agency or instrumentality of Federal 
Government shall include closed captioning of the verbal content of such 
announcement. A television broadcast station licensee--
        (1) shall not be required to supply closed captioning for any 
    such announcement that fails to include it; and
        (2) shall not be liable for broadcasting any such announcement 
    without transmitting a closed caption unless the licensee 
    intentionally fails to transmit the closed caption that was included 
    with the announcement.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VII, Sec. 711, as added Pub. L. 98-549, 
Sec. 8, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2804; amended Pub. L. 101-336, title IV, 
Sec. 402, July 26, 1990, 104 Stat. 369.)


                               Amendments

    1990--Pub. L. 101-336 amended section generally, substituting 
provisions relating to closed-captioning of public service announcements 
for provisions relating to establishment, functions, composition, etc., 
of Telecommunications Policy Study Commission.


                             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.
