§ 14. — Contracts filed with Federal Communications Commission; reports; failure to make.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 47USC14]
TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
CHAPTER 1--TELEGRAPHS
Sec. 14. Contracts filed with Federal Communications Commission;
reports; failure to make
It shall be the duty of each and every one of the aforesaid railroad
and telegraph companies annually to report to the Federal Communications
Commission, with reasonable fullness and certainty, the nature, extent,
value, and condition of the telegraph lines and property then belonging
to it, the gross earnings, and all expenses of maintenance, use, and
operation thereof, and its relation and business with all connecting
telegraph companies during the preceding year, at such time and in such
manner as may be required by a system of reports which said commission
shall prescribe; and if any of said railroad or telegraph companies
shall refuse or fail to make such reports or any report as may be called
for by said commission, or refuse to submit its books and records for
inspection, such neglect or refusal shall operate as a forfeiture, in
each case of such neglect or refusal, of a sum not less than $1,000 nor
more than $5,000, to be recovered by the Attorney General of the United
States, in the name and for the use and benefit of the United States;
and it shall be the duty of the Federal Communications Commission to
inform the Attorney General of all such cases of neglect or refusal,
whose duty it shall be to proceed at once to judicially enforce the
forfeitures herein before provided.
(Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, Sec. 6, 25 Stat. 384; June 19, 1934, ch. 652,
Sec. 601, 48 Stat. 1101.)
Codification
A provision in the original enactment of this section requiring
filing of copies of contracts, agreements, etc., within 60 days from
passage of act Aug. 7, 1888 was omitted.
Transfer of Functions
Duties, powers, and functions under this section relating to
operation of telegraph lines by railroad and telegraph lines granted
Government aid in construction of their lines imposed on and vested in
Federal Communications Commission by act June 19, 1934. See section 601
of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 12, 15, 601 of this title.
