CHAPTER 2 — Submarine Cables
19 sections.
- § 21. — Submarine cables; willful injury to; punishment
- § 22. — Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment
- § 23. — Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted
- § 24. — Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys
- § 25. — Fishing vessels; duty to keep nets from cables
- § 26. — Duties of commanders of warships
- § 27. — Offending vessels to show nationality
- § 28. — Penalties not to bar suits for damages
- § 29. — Master of offending vessel punishable
- § 30. — Definitions
- § 31. — Summary trials
- § 32. — Application
- § 33. — Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses
- § 34. — Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for
- § 35. — Withholding or revoking of licenses by President; terms and conditions of licenses
- § 36. — Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction
- § 37. — Violations; punishment
- § 38. — “United States” defined
- § 39. — Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted