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47 U.S.C. § 508 — Disclosure of payments to individuals connected with broadcasts
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**(a) Payments to station employees** Subject to subsection (d), any employee of a radio station who accepts or agrees to accept from any person (other than such station), or any person (other than such station) who pays or agrees to pay such employee, any money, service or other valuable consideration for the broadcast of any matter over such station shall, in advance of such broadcast, disclose the fact of such acceptance or agreement to such station.
**(b) Production or preparation of programs** Subject to subsection (d), any person who, in connection with the production or preparation of any program or program matter which is intended for broadcasting over any radio station, accepts or agrees to accept, or pays or agrees to pay, any money, service or other valuable consideration for the inclusion of any matter as a part of such program or program matter, shall, in advance of such broadcast, disclose the fact of such acceptance or payment or agreement to the payee’s employer, or to the person for whom such program or program matter is being produced, or to the licensee of such station over which such program is broadcast.
**(c) Supplying of program or program matter** Subject to subsection (d), any person who supplies to any other person any program or program matter which is intended for broadcasting over any radio station shall, in advance of such broadcast, disclose to such other person any information of which he has knowledge, or which has been disclosed to him, as to any money, service or other valuable consideration which any person has paid or accepted, or has agreed to pay or accept, for the inclusion of any matter as a part of such program or program matter.
**(d) Waiver of announcements under section 317(d)** The provisions of this section requiring the
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**(a) Payments to station employees** Subject to subsection (d), any employee of a radio station who accepts or agrees to accept from any person (other than such station), or any person (other than such station) who pays or agrees to pay such employee, any money, service or other valuable consideration for the broadcast of any matter over such station shall, in advance of such broadcast, disclose the fact of such acceptance or agreement to such station.
**(b) Production or preparation of programs** Subject to subsection (d), any person who, in connection with the production or preparation of any program or program matter which is intended for broadcasting over any radio station, accepts or agrees to accept, or pays or agrees to pay, any money, service or other valuable consideration for the inclusion of any matter as a part of such program or program matter, shall, in advance of such broadcast, disclose the fact of such acceptance or payment or agreement to the payee’s employer, or to the person for whom such program or program matter is being produced, or to the licensee of such station over which such program is broadcast.
**(c) Supplying of program or program matter** Subject to subsection (d), any person who supplies to any other person any program or program matter which is intended for broadcasting over any radio station shall, in advance of such broadcast, disclose to such other person any information of which he has knowledge, or which has been disclosed to him, as to any money, service or other valuable consideration which any person has paid or accepted, or has agreed to pay or accept, for the inclusion of any matter as a part of such program or program matter.
**(d) Waiver of announcements under section 317(d)** The provisions of this section requiring the disclosure of information shall not apply in any case where, because of a waiver made by the Commission under [section 317(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section317/d&num=0&edition=prelim), an announcement is not required to be made under [section 317 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section317&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(e) Announcement under section 317 as sufficient disclosure** The inclusion in the program of the announcement required by [section 317 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section317&num=0&edition=prelim) shall constitute the disclosure required by this section.
**(f) “Service or other valuable consideration” defined** The term “service or other valuable consideration” as used in this section shall not include any service or property furnished without charge or at a nominal charge for use on, or in connection with, a broadcast, or for use on a program which is intended for broadcasting over any radio station, unless it is so furnished in consideration for an identification in such broadcast or in such program of any person, product, service, trademark, or brand name beyond an identification which is reasonably related to the use of such service or property in such broadcast or such program.
**(g) Penalties** Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, for each such violation, be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
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**(a)** Any vessel of the United States that is navigated in violation of the provisions of the Great Lakes Agreement or the rules and regulations of the Commission made in pursuance thereof and any vessel of a foreign country that is so navigated on waters under the jurisdiction of the United States shall forfeit to the United States the sum of $500 recoverable by way of suit or libel. Each day during which such navigation occurs shall constitute a separate offense.
**(b)** Every willful failure on the part of the master of a vessel of the United States to enforce or to comply with the provisions of the Great Lakes Agreement or the rules and regulations of the Commission made in pursuance thereof shall cause him to forfeit to the United States the sum of $100.
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**(a) Disclosure of person furnishing**
(1) All matter broadcast by any radio station for which any money, service or other valuable consideration is directly or indirectly paid, or promised to or charged or accepted by, the station so broadcasting, from any person, shall, at the time the same is so broadcast, be announced as paid for or furnished, as the case may be, by such person: Provided, That “service or other valuable consideration” shall not include any service or property furnished without charge or at a nominal charge for use on, or in connection with, a broadcast unless it is so furnished in consideration for an identification in a broadcast of any person, product, service, trademark, or brand name beyond an identification which is reasonably related to the use of such service or property on the broadcast.
(2) Nothing in this section shall preclude the Commission from requiring that an appropriate announcement shall be made at the time of the broadcast in the case of any political program or any program involving the discussion of any controversial issue for which any films, records, transcriptions, talent, scripts, or other material or service of any kind have been furnished, without charge or at a nominal charge, directly or indirectly, as an inducement to the broadcast of such program.
**(b) Disclosure to station of payments** In any case where a report has been made to a radio station, as required by [section 508 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title47-section508&num=0&edition=prelim), of circumstances which would have required an announcement under this section had the consideration been received by such radio station, an appropriate announcement shall be made by such radio station.
**(c) Acquiring informat
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**(a) Influencing, prearranging, or predetermining outcome** It shall be unlawful for any person, with intent to deceive the listening or viewing public—
(1) To supply to any contestant in a purportedly bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge or intellectual skill any special and secret assistance whereby the outcome of such contest will be in whole or in part prearranged or predetermined.
(2) By means of persuasion, bribery, intimidation, or otherwise, to induce or cause any contestant in a purportedly bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge or intellectual skill to refrain in any manner from using or displaying his knowledge or skill in such contest, whereby the outcome thereof will be in whole or in part prearranged or predetermined.
(3) To engage in any artifice or scheme for the purpose of prearranging or predetermining in whole or in part the outcome of a purportedly bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge, intellectual skill, or chance.
(4) To produce or participate in the production for broadcasting of, to broadcast or participate in the broadcasting of, to offer to a licensee for broadcasting, or to sponsor, any radio program, knowing or having reasonable ground for believing that, in connection with a purportedly bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge, intellectual skill, or chance constituting any part of such program, any person has done or is going to do any act or thing referred to in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection.
(5) To conspire with any other person or persons to do any act or thing prohibited by paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) of this subsection, if one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of such conspiracy.
**(b) “Contest” and “the listening or viewing public” defined** For the purposes of thi
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TITLE 47—TELECOMMUNICATIONS
§ 505
§ 505. Venue of trials
The trial of any offense under this chapter
shall be in the district in which it is committed;
or if the offense is committed upon the high
seas, or out of the jurisdiction of any particular
State or district, the trial shall be in the dis-
trict where the offender may be found or into
which he shall be first brought. Whenever the of-
fense is begun in one jurisdiction and completed
in another it may be dealt with, inquired of,
tried, determined, and punished in either juris-
diction in the same manner as if the offense had
been actually and wholly committed therein.
(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title V, § 505, 48 Stat. 1101.)
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This chapter, referred to in text, 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 complete
classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of
this title and Tables.
§ 506. Repealed. Pub. L. 96–507, § 1, Dec. 8, 1980,
94 Stat. 2747
Section, act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title V, § 506, as
added Apr. 16, 1946, ch. 138, 60 Stat. 89, prohibited cer-
tain coercive practices affecting broadcasting and pro-
vided penalties for violations.
§ 507. Violation of Great Lakes Agreement
(a) Any vessel of the United States that is
navigated in violation of the provisions of the
Great Lakes Agreement or the rules and regula-
tions of the Commission made in pursuance
thereof and any vessel of a foreign country that
is so navigated on waters under the jurisdiction
of the United States shall forfeit to the United
States the sum of $500 recoverable by way of suit
or libel. Each day during which such navigati
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