CHAPTER 2—SUBMARINE CABLES (§§ 21—39)
- § 21. Submarine cables; willful injury to; punishment
- § 22. Negligent injury to submarine cables; punishment
- § 23. Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted
- § 24. Vessels laying cables; signals; avoidance of buoys
- § 25. Fishing vessels; duty to keep nets from cables
- § 26. Duties of commanders of warships
- § 27. Offending vessels to show nationality
- § 28. Penalties not to bar suits for damages
- § 29. Master of offending vessel punishable
- § 30. Definitions
- § 31. Summary trials
- § 32. Application
- § 33. Jurisdiction and venue of actions and offenses
- § 34. Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for
- § 35. Withholding or revoking of licenses by President; terms and conditions of licenses
- § 36. Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction
- § 37. Violations; punishment
- § 38. “United States” defined
- § 39. Amendment, modification, etc., of rights granted