47 USC § 15 - Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines

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title: "47 USC § 15 - Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines"
title_number: 47
title_name: "TELECOMMUNICATIONS"
section_number: "15"
section_name: "Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines"
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chapter_name: "TELEGRAPHS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-08-11"
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source_credit: "(Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 7, 25 Stat. 385; Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, § 49, 68 Stat. 1244.)"
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# 1 Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines

See References in Text note below.

[^1]47 U.S.C. 151

Nothing in sections 9 to 15 of this title shall be construed to affect or impair the right of Congress, at any time hereafter, to alter, amend, or repeal sections 1 to 6 and 8  of this title; and sections 9 to 15 of this title shall be subject to alteration, amendment, or repeal as, in the opinion of Congress, justice or the public welfare may require; and nothing herein contained shall be held to deny, exclude, or impair any right or remedy in the premises now or hereafter existing in the United States, or the authority of the Federal Communications Commission under the provisions of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended [ et seq.], to prescribe charges, classifications, regulations, and practices, including priorities, applicable to Government communications.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 7, 25 Stat. 385; Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, § 49, 68 Stat. 1244.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Sections 1 to 6 and 8 of this title, referred to in text, were repealed by , .

The Communications Act of 1934, referred to in text, is , , as amended, which is classified principally to chapter 5 (§ 151 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see  and Tables.

### Amendments

1954—Act , corrected references and struck out obsolete material.