---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 923"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "923"
heading: "State regulation of telephone service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/923"
units:
  - "Chapter 31 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Service"
  - "Subchapter II — Rural Telephone Service"
---

# §923. State regulation of telephone service


Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to deprive any [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) commission, board, or other agency of jurisdiction, under any [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) law, now or hereafter effective, to regulate [telephone service](/usc/7/924.md?p=a) which is not subject to regulation by the Federal Communications Commission, under the Communications Act of 1934 [[47 U.S.C. 151](/usc/47/151.md) et seq.], including the rates for such service.


## Source credit

(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title II, § 202, as added Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 776, § 5, 63 Stat. 948.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Communications Act of 1934, referred to in text, is act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, which is classified principally to chapter 5 (§ 151 et seq.) of Title 47, Telecommunications. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of Title 47 and Tables.