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Submarine Cable Act The United States Congress enacted the Submarine Cable Act of February 29, 1888, 25 Stat. 41-42, codified at 47 U.S.C. Sections 21-33, to give effect to the Submarine Cable Convention of 1884 discussed above and to establish the law in the United States. The Act was amended to add other provisions in the Act of May 27, 1921, 42 Stat. 8-9, codified at 47 U.S.C. Sections 34-39. The Cable Act provides no express private right of action and is primarily criminal in nature. Under the Act, it is a misdemeanor to "willfully and wrongfully break or injure, or attempt to break or injure, or who shall in any manner procure, counsel, aid, abet, or be accessory to such breaking or injury, or attempt to break or injure, a submarine cable in such manner as to interrupt or embarrass... telegraphic communication." 47 U.S.C. Section 21. It is also a misdemeanor to inflict the same injury "by culpable negligence." Id. at Section 22. There is an exemption if a person breaks or injures a cable in an effort "to save the life or limb" or to save a vessel provided that the person took reasonable precautions. Id. at Section 23. Other misdemeanors defined in the Cable Act include certain navigational errors, id. at Sections 24, 25; failure to present official papers on demand to officers of ships, id. at Section 27; and installation or operation of a submarine cable without a license. Id. at Sections 34, 37. The Cable Act also states that "penalties provided in this Act for the breaking or injury of a submarine cable shall not be a bar to a suit for damages on account of such breaking or injury." Id. at Section 28. There are about two dozen reported judicial decisions involving damage to submarine cables in the United States. Half of the decisions are more than fifty years old. There appear to be only two published cases for civil damages that discuss the Cable Act in some detail. [5] No published case involves charges pursuant to the criminal provisions of the Cable Act.

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