---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 8"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "8"
heading: "Repealed. July 16, 1947, ch. 256, § 1, 61 Stat. 327"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/8"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Telegraphs"
---

# [§8. Repealed. July 16, 1947, ch. 256, § 1, 61 Stat. 327 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, R.S. § 5269; acts Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 252; June 19, 1934, ch. 652, § 601, 48 Stat. 1101, related to refusal to transmit dispatches.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective on tenth day following July 16, 1947, see section 3 of act July 16, 1947, set out as a note under sections 1 to 6 of this title.

### Authority of Federal Communications Commission; Effect of Repeal

See provisions set out as a note under section 1 of this title.