Injury to submarine cables in efforts to save life excepted
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/us/usc/t47/s23
Title
47 — Telecommunications
Chapter
CH2
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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The provisions of sections 21 and 22 of this title shall not apply to a person who breaks or injures a cable in an effort to save the life or limb of himself or of any other person, or to save his own or any other vessel: Provided, That he takes reasonable precautions to avoid such breaking or injury.
(Feb. 29, 1888, ch. 17, § 3, 25 Stat. 41.)
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