§ 9. — Subsidized companies required to construct and operate lines.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 47USC9]
TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
CHAPTER 1--TELEGRAPHS
Sec. 9. Subsidized companies required to construct and operate
lines
All railroad and telegraph companies to which the United States has
granted any subsidy in lands or bonds or loan of credit for the
construction of either railroad or telegraph lines, which, by the acts
incorporating them, or by any act amendatory or supplementary thereto,
are required to construct, maintain, or operate telegraph lines, and all
companies engaged in operating said railroad or telegraph lines shall,
by and through their own respective corporate officers and employees,
maintain, and operate, for railroad, governmental, commercial, and all
other purposes, telegraph lines, and exercise by themselves alone all
the telegraph franchises conferred upon them and obligations assumed by
them under the acts making the grants as aforesaid.
(Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, Sec. 1, 25 Stat. 382.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 10, 11, 12, 15, 601 of this
title.
