---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 39"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "39"
heading: "Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/39"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables"
---

# §39. Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted


No right shall accrue to any government, person, or corporation under the terms of sections [34](/usc/47/34.md) to 39 of this title that may not be rescinded, changed, modified, or amended by the Congress.


## Source credit

(May 27, 1921, ch. 12, § 6, 42 Stat. 9.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Submarine Cable Act which comprises this chapter.