Goto Section: 73.1216 | 73.1225 | Table of Contents
FCC 73.1217
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 73.1217 Broadcast hoaxes.
No licensee or permittee of any broadcast station shall broadcast false
information concerning a crime or a catastrophe if:
(a) The licensee knows this information is false;
(b) It is forseeable that broadcast of the information will cause
substantial public harm, and
(c) Broadcast of the information does in fact directly cause substantial
public harm.
Any programming accompanied by a disclaimer will be presumed not to pose
foreseeable harm if the disclaimer clearly characterizes the program as a
fiction and is presented in a way that is reasonable under the
circumstances.
Note: For purposes of this rule, “public harm” must begin immediately, and
cause direct and actual damage to property or to the health or safety of the
general public, or diversion of law enforcement or other public health and
safety authorities from their duties. The public harm will be deemed
foreseeable if the licensee could expect with a significant degree of
certainty that public harm would occur. A “crime” is any act or omission
that makes the offender subject to criminal punishment by law. A
“catastrophe” is a disaster or imminent disaster involving violent or sudden
event affecting the public.
[ 57 FR 28640 , June 26, 1992]
Goto Section: 73.1216 | 73.1225
Goto Year: 2007 |
2009
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