---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 15"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "15"
heading: "Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/15"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Telegraphs"
---

# §15. Reservation of power to alter, amend, or repeal act; power to fix rates and purchase lines


Nothing in [sections 9 to 15](/usc/47/9..15.md) of this title shall be construed to affect or impair the right of Congress, at any time hereafter, to alter, amend, or repeal sections [1 to 6](/usc/47/1..6.md) and [8](/usc/47/8.md)[^1] of this title; and [sections 9 to 15](/usc/47/9..15.md) of this title shall be subject to alteration, amendment, or repeal as, in the opinion of Congress, justice or the public welfare may require; and nothing herein contained shall be held to deny, exclude, or impair any right or remedy in the premises now or hereafter existing in the [United States](/usc/47/38.md), or the authority of the Federal Communications Commission under the provisions of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended [[47 U.S.C. 151](/usc/47/151.md) et seq.], to prescribe charges, classifications, regulations, and practices, including priorities, applicable to Government communications.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 7, 25 Stat. 385; Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1263, § 49, 68 Stat. 1244.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Sections 1 to 6 and 8 of this title, referred to in text, were repealed by act July 16, 1947, ch. 256, § 1, 61 Stat. 327.

The Communications Act of 1934, referred to in text, is act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, as amended, which is classified principally to chapter 5 (§ 151 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of this title and Tables.

### Amendments

1954—Act Sept. 3, 1954, corrected references and struck out obsolete material.