---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 36"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "36"
heading: "Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/36"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Submarine Cables"
---

# §36. Preventing landing or operating of cables; injunction


The President is empowered to prevent the landing of any cable about to be landed in violation of [sections 34 to 39](/usc/47/34..39.md) of this title. When any such cable is about to be or is landed or is being operated without a license, any district court of the [United States](/usc/47/38.md) exercising jurisdiction in the district in which such cable is about to be or is landed, or any district court of the [United States](/usc/47/38.md) having jurisdiction of the parties, shall have jurisdiction, at the suit of the [United States](/usc/47/38.md), to enjoin the landing or operation of such cable or to compel, by injunction, the removal thereof.


## Source credit

(May 27, 1921, ch. 12, § 3, 42 Stat. 8.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Submarine Cable Act which comprises this chapter.

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

For delegation of functions vested in President by this section to Federal Communications Commission, see note set out under section 34 of this title.