---
kind: "unit"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
key: "ch2"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 2"
heading: "Submarine Cables"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/ch2"
sections_count: 19
---

# Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables

Title 47 — Telecommunications

## Sections

- [§21. Submarine cables; willful injury to; punishment](/usc/47/21.md)
- [§22. Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment](/usc/47/22.md)
- [§23. Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted](/usc/47/23.md)
- [§24. Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys](/usc/47/24.md)
- [§25. Fishing vessels; duty to keep nets from cables](/usc/47/25.md)
- [§26. Duties of commanders of warships](/usc/47/26.md)
- [§27. Offending vessels to show nationality](/usc/47/27.md)
- [§28. Penalties not to bar suits for damages](/usc/47/28.md)
- [§29. Master of offending vessel punishable](/usc/47/29.md)
- [§30. Definitions](/usc/47/30.md)
- [§31. Summary trials](/usc/47/31.md)
- [§32. Application](/usc/47/32.md)
- [§33. Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses](/usc/47/33.md)
- [§34. Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for](/usc/47/34.md)
- [§35. Withholding or revoking of licenses by President; terms and conditions of licenses](/usc/47/35.md)
- [§36. Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction](/usc/47/36.md)
- [§37. Violations; punishment](/usc/47/37.md)
- [§38. “United States” defined](/usc/47/38.md)
- [§39. Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted](/usc/47/39.md)