---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 383"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "383"
heading: "Exemptions by Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/383"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Wire or Radio Communication"
  - "Subchapter III — Special Provisions Relating to Radio"
  - "Part III — Radio Installations on Vessels Carrying Passengers for Hire"
---

# §383. Exemptions by Commission


The Commission shall exempt from the provisions of this part any [vessel](/usc/47/153.md?p=46-A), or class of [vessels](/usc/47/153.md?p=46-A), in the case of which the route or conditions of the voyage, or other conditions or circumstances, are such as to render a radio installation unreasonable, unnecessary, or ineffective, for the purposes of this chapter.


## Source credit

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 383, as added Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 973, § 1, 70 Stat. 1048; amended Pub. L. 103–414, title III, § 303(a)(20)(C), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4295.)

## 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.

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–414 inserted section catchline.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Mar. 1, 1957, see section 4 of act Aug. 6, 1956, set out as a note under section 381 of this title.