1. U.S. Code
  2. title 47
  3. chapter 5
  4. subchapter V-A
  5. part IV
  6. § 559

View all text of Part IV [§ 551 - § 562]

§ 559. Obscene programming

Whoever transmits over any cable system any matter which is obscene or otherwise unprotected by the Constitution of the United States shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title VI, § 639, as added Pub. L. 98–549, § 2, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2801; amended Pub. L. 104–104, title V, § 503, Feb. 8, 1996, 110 Stat. 136.)

CITE AS: 47 USC 559