---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 31"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "31"
heading: "Summary trials"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/31"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables"
---

# §31. Summary trials


The provisions of sections 391–396 of title 33 shall extend to the trial of offenses against the provisions of sections [24](/usc/47/24.md) and [25](/usc/47/25.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 11, 25 Stat. 42.)