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Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs - 47 USC Section 14
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01/19/04 Sec. 14. Contracts filed with Federal Communications Commission;
reports; failure to make
It shall be the duty of each and every one of the aforesaid
railroad and telegraph companies annually to report to the Federal
Communications Commission, with reasonable fullness and certainty,
the nature, extent, value, and condition of the telegraph lines and
property then belonging to it, the gross earnings, and all expenses
of maintenance, use, and operation thereof, and its relation and
business with all connecting telegraph companies during the
preceding year, at such time and in such manner as may be required
by a system of reports which said commission shall prescribe; and
if any of said railroad or telegraph companies shall refuse or fail
to make such reports or any report as may be called for by said
commission, or refuse to submit its books and records for
inspection, such neglect or refusal shall operate as a forfeiture,
in each case of such neglect or refusal, of a sum not less than
$1,000 nor more than $5,000, to be recovered by the Attorney
General of the United States, in the name and for the use and
benefit of the United States; and it shall be the duty of the
Federal Communications Commission to inform the Attorney General of
all such cases of neglect or refusal, whose duty it shall be to
proceed at once to judicially enforce the forfeitures herein before
provided.
Last modified: June 19, 2006
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