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47 U.S.C. § 558 — Criminal and civil liability

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47 U.S.C. § 558 — Criminal and civil liability

Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to affect the criminal or civil liability of cable programmers or cable operators pursuant to the Federal, State, or local law of libel, slander, obscenity, incitement, invasions of privacy, false or misleading advertising, or other similar laws, except that cable operators shall not incur any such liability for any program carried on any channel designated for public, educational, governmental use or on any other channel obtained under [section 532 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section532&num=0&edition=prelim) or under similar arrangements unless the program involves obscene material.

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47 U.S.C. § 521 — Purposes

The purposes of this subchapter are to— (1) establish a national policy concerning cable communications; (2) establish franchise procedures and standards which encourage the growth and development of cable systems and which assure that cable systems are responsive to the needs and interests of the local community; (3) establish guidelines for the exercise of Federal, State, and local authority with respect to the regulation of cable systems; (4) assure that cable communications provide and are encouraged to provide the widest possible diversity of information sources and services to the public; (5) establish an orderly process for franchise renewal which protects cable operators against unfair denials of renewal where the operator’s past performance and proposal for future performance meet the standards established by this subchapter; and (6) promote competition in cable communications and minimize unnecessary regulation that would impose an undue economic burden on cable systems.

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47 U.S.C. § 532 — Cable channels for commercial use

**(a) Purpose** The purpose of this section is to promote competition in the delivery of diverse sources of video programming and to assure that the widest possible diversity of information sources are made available to the public from cable systems in a manner consistent with growth and development of cable systems. **(b) Designation of channel capacity for commercial use** (1) A cable operator shall designate channel capacity for commercial use by persons unaffiliated with the operator in accordance with the following requirements: (A) An operator of any cable system with 36 or more (but not more than 54) activated channels shall designate 10 percent of such channels which are not otherwise required for use (or the use of which is not prohibited) by Federal law or regulation. (B) An operator of any cable system with 55 or more (but not more than 100) activated channels shall designate 15 percent of such channels which are not otherwise required for use (or the use of which is not prohibited) by Federal law or regulation. (C) An operator of any cable system with more than 100 activated channels shall designate 15 percent of all such channels. (D) An operator of any cable system with fewer than 36 activated channels shall not be required to designate channel capacity for commercial use by persons unaffiliated with the operator, unless the cable system is required to provide such channel capacity under the terms of a franchise in effect on October 30, 1984. (E) An operator of any cable system in operation on October 30, 1984, shall not be required to remove any service actually being provided on July 1, 1984, in order to comply with this section, but shall make channel capacity available for commercial use as such capacity becomes available until such ti

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47 U.S.C. § 325 — False, fraudulent, or unauthorized transmissions

**(a) False distress signals; rebroadcasting programs** No person within the jurisdiction of the United States shall knowingly utter or transmit, or cause to be uttered or transmitted, any false or fraudulent signal of distress, or communication relating thereto, nor shall any broadcasting station rebroadcast the program or any part thereof of another broadcasting station without the express authority of the originating station. **(b) Consent to retransmission of broadcasting station signals** (1) No cable system or other multichannel video programming distributor shall retransmit the signal of a broadcasting station, or any part thereof, except— (A) with the express authority of the originating station; (B) under [section 534 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section534&num=0&edition=prelim), in the case of a station electing, in accordance with this subsection, to assert the right to carriage under such section; or (C) under [section 338 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section338&num=0&edition=prelim), in the case of a station electing, in accordance with this subsection, to assert the right to carriage under such section. (2) This subsection shall not apply— (A) to retransmission of the signal of a noncommercial television broadcast station; (B) to retransmission of the signal of a television broadcast station outside the station’s local market by a satellite carrier directly to its subscribers, if— (i) such station was a superstation on May 1, 1991; (ii) as of July 1, 1998, such station was retransmitted by a satellite carrier under the statutory license of [section 119 of title 17](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-pr

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47 U.S.C. § 558 — Criminal and civil liability

Page 308 TITLE 47—TELECOMMUNICATIONS § 556 § 556. Coordination of Federal, State, and local authority (a) Regulation by States, political subdivisions, State and local agencies, and franchising au- thorities Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to affect any authority of any State, political subdivision, or agency thereof, or franchising authority, regarding matters of public health, safety, and welfare, to the extent consistent with the express provisions of this subchapter. (b) State jurisdiction with regard to cable serv- ices Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to restrict a State from exercising jurisdiction with regard to cable services consistent with this subchapter. (c) Preemption Except as provided in section 557 of this title, any provision of law of any State, political sub- division, or agency thereof, or franchising au- thority, or any provision of any franchise grant- ed by such authority, which is inconsistent with this chapter shall be deemed to be preempted and superseded. (d) ‘‘State’’ defined For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘State’’ has the meaning given such term in section 153 of this title. (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VI, § 636, as added Pub. L. 98–549, § 2, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2800; amended Pub. L. 104–104, § 3(d)(3), Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 61.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT This chapter, referred to in subsec. (c), was in the original ‘‘this Act’’, meaning act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, known as the Communications Act of 1934, which is classified principally to this chapter. For com- plete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of this title and Tables. AMENDMENTS 1996—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104–104 substituted ‘‘section 153’’ for ‘‘section 153

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