---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 28"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "28"
heading: "Penalties not to bar suits for damages"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/28"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables"
---

# §28. Penalties not to bar suits for damages


The penalties provided in this chapter for the breaking or injury of a submarine cable shall not be a bar to a suit for damages on account of such breaking or injury.


## Source credit

(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 8, 25 Stat. 42.)