---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 211"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "211"
heading: "Contracts of carriers; filing with Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/211"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication"
  - "Subchapter II — Common Carriers"
  - "Part I — Common Carrier Regulation"
---

# §211. Contracts of carriers; filing with Commission

- (a) Every [carrier](/usc/47/153.md?p=11) subject to this chapter shall file with the Commission copies of all contracts, agreements, or arrangements with other [carriers](/usc/47/153.md?p=11), or with [common carriers](/usc/47/153.md?p=11) not subject to the provisions of this chapter, in relation to any traffic affected by the provisions of this chapter to which it may be a party.
- (b) The Commission shall have authority to require the filing of any other contracts of any [carrier](/usc/47/153.md?p=11), and shall also have authority to exempt any [carrier](/usc/47/153.md?p=11) from submitting copies of such minor contracts as the Commission may determine.

## Source credit

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, § 211, 48 Stat. 1073.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, known as the Communications Act of 1934, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of this title and Tables.