---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 333"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "333"
heading: "Willful or malicious interference"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/333"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication"
  - "Subchapter III — Special Provisions Relating to Radio"
  - "Part I — General Provisions"
---

# §333. Willful or malicious interference


No [person](/usc/47/153.md?p=39) shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any [radio communications](/usc/47/153.md?p=40) of any station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter or operated by the [United States](/usc/47/153.md?p=58) Government.


## Source credit

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 333, as added Pub. L. 101–396, § 9, Sept. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 850.)

## 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.