An Act to further amend the Communications Act of 1934
PL 82-200 (S.537), enacted 10/24/1951

65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 200—OCT. 24, 1951 
611 
SEC. 2. All existing laws or portions thereof, inconsistent or in 
conflict with this Act, are hereby amended or repealed. 
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on the first day of the third calendar 
Effective date. 
month following the calendar month in which it is enacted. 
Approved October 24, 1951. 
Public Law 200 
CHAPTER 553 
AN ACT 
To further amend the Communications Act of 1934. 
October 24, 1951 
[S. 537] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Anieii^oa in Congress assembled^ That section 606 (c) 
of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, is amended to read 
as follows: 
"(c) Upon proclamation by the President that there exists war or a 
threat of war, or a state of public peril or disaster or other national 
emergency, or in order to preserve the neutrality of the United States, 
the President, if he deems it necessary in the interest of national 
security or defense, may suspend or amend, for such time as he may 
see fit, the rules and i-egulations applicable to any or all stations or 
devices capable of emitting electromagnetic radiations within the juris-
diction of the United States as prescribed by the Commission, and 
may cause the closing of any station for radio communication, or any 
device capable of emitting electromagnetic radiations between 10 kilo-
cycles and 100,000 megacycles, which is suitable for use as a naviga-
tional aid beyond five miles, and the removal therefrom of its 
apparatus and equipment, or he may authorize the use or control of 
any such station or device and/or its apparatus and equipment, by 
any department of the Government under such regulations as he may 
prescribe upon just compensation to the owners. The authority 
granted to the President, under this subsection, to cause the closing 
of any station or device and the removal therefrom of its apparatus 
and equipment, or to authorize the use or control of any station or 
device and/or its apparatus and equipment, may be exercised in the 
Canal Zone." 
SEC. 2. Section 606 of such Act is further amended by adding at 
the end thereof a new subsection as follows: 
"(h) Any person who willfully does or causes or suffers to be done 
any act prohibited pursuant to the exercise of the President's authority 
under this section, or who willfully fails to do any act which he is 
required to do pursuant to the exercise of the President's authority 
under this section, or who willfully causes or suffers such failure, shall, 
upon conviction thereof, be punished for such offense by a fine of not 
more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or 
both, and, if a firm, partnership, association, or corporation, by fine 
of not more than $5,000, except that any person who commits such 
an offense with intent to injure the United States, or with intent to 
secure an advantage to any foreign nation, shall, upon conviction 
thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $20,000 or by imprison-
ment for not more than 20 years, or both." 
Approved October 24, 1951. 
48 Stat. 1104. 
47U.S.C.§ 606(e). 
Electromagnetic 
radiation control. 
A u t h o r i t y of the 
President. 
Canal Zone. 
Penalties.