---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 17"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "17"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 105–119, title VI, § 620, Nov. 26, 1997, 111 Stat. 2519"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/17"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Telegraphs"
---

# [§17. Repealed. Pub. L. 105–119, title VI, § 620, Nov. 26, 1997, 111 Stat. 2519 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act May 26, 1900, ch. 586, 31 Stat. 206, related to prohibition of establishment of telegraph or cable lines by foreigners.