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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "47 U.S.C. § 9"
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description: "Subsidized companies required to construct and operate lines"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 47
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title_name: "TELECOMMUNICATIONS"
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chapter_number: "1"
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chapter_name: "TELEGRAPHS"
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section: "9"
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citation: "47 U.S.C. § 9"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc47@119-100.zip"
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source_identifier: "/us/usc/t47/s9"
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source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-47/usc47.xml"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
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confidence: "official"
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tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
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# 47 U.S.C. § 9 - Subsidized companies required to construct and operate lines
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## Text
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All railroad and telegraph companies to which the United States has granted any subsidy in lands or bonds or loan of credit for the construction of either railroad or telegraph lines, which, by the acts incorporating them, or by any act amendatory or supplementary thereto, are required to construct, maintain, or operate telegraph lines, and all companies engaged in operating said railroad or telegraph lines shall, by and through their own respective corporate officers and employees, maintain, and operate, for railroad, governmental, commercial, and all other purposes, telegraph lines, and exercise by themselves alone all the telegraph franchises conferred upon them and obligations assumed by them under the acts making the grants as aforesaid.
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(Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 1, 25 Stat. 382.)
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