---
kind: "unit"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
key: "ch1"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 1"
heading: "Telegraphs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/ch1"
sections_count: 12
---

# Chapter 1 — Telegraphs

Title 47 — Telecommunications

## Sections

- [§1...6. Repealed.](/usc/47/1...6.md)
- [§7. Omitted](/usc/47/7.md)
- [§8. Repealed.](/usc/47/8.md)
- [§9. Subsidized companies required to construct and operate lines](/usc/47/9.md)
- [§10. Equal facilities to connecting lines; discrimination in rates](/usc/47/10.md)
- [§11. Powers of Federal Communications Commission](/usc/47/11.md)
- [§12. Interference with liens of United States](/usc/47/12.md)
- [§13. Violations; punishment; action for damages](/usc/47/13.md)
- [§14. Contracts filed with Federal Communications Commission; reports; failure to make](/usc/47/14.md)
- [§15. Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines](/usc/47/15.md)
- [§16. Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System; money transfers; portion of receipts withheld](/usc/47/16.md)
- [§17. Repealed.](/usc/47/17.md)