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[CITE: 47USC731]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
               CHAPTER 6--COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE SYSTEM
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE CORPORATION
 
Sec. 731. Creation of corporation

    There is authorized to be created a communications satellite 
corporation for profit which will not be an agency or establishment of 
the United States Government.

(Pub. L. 87-624, title III, Sec. 301, as added Pub. L. 103-414, title 
III, Sec. 304(b)(2), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4297.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 731, Pub. L. 87-624, title III, Sec. 301, Aug. 31, 
1962, 76 Stat. 423, authorized creation of a for-profit communications 
satellite corporation not to be a Government agency, subject to this 
chapter and the District of Columbia Business Corporation Act, prior to 
repeal by Pub. L. 103-414, Sec. 304(b)(2).
