---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 217"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "217"
heading: "Agents’ acts and omissions; liability of carrier"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/217"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication"
  - "Subchapter II — Common Carriers"
  - "Part I — Common Carrier Regulation"
---

# §217. Agents’ acts and omissions; liability of carrier


In construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the act, omission, or failure of any officer, agent, or other [person](/usc/47/153.md?p=39) acting for or employed by any [common carrier](/usc/47/153.md?p=11) or user, acting within the scope of his employment, shall in every case be also deemed to be the act, omission, or failure of such [carrier](/usc/47/153.md?p=11) or user as well as that of the [person](/usc/47/153.md?p=39).


## Source credit

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, § 217, 48 Stat. 1077.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, 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.