COMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED
TITLE I -- GENERAL PROVISIONS
PURPOSES OF ACT, CREATION OF FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Section 1.
[47 U.S.C 151] For the purpose of regulating
interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as
to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United
States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio
communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for
the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting safety
of life and property through the use of wire and radio communication, and
for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by
centralizing authority heretofor granted by law to several agencies and by
granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign
commerce in wire and radio communication, there is hereby created a
commission to be known as "Federal Communications Commission," which shall
be constituted as hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and
enforce the provisions of this Act.