PUBLIC LAWS ENACTED DURING THE THIRD SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, January3, 1938, and adjourned without day on Thursday, June 16, 1938 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President; JOHN N. GARNER, Vice President; KEY PITTMAN, President of the Senate pro tempore; WILLIAM B. BANKHEAD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. [CHAPTER 2] AN ACT To prohibit the making of photographs, sketches, or maps of vital military and naval defensive installations and equipment, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, whenever, in the interests of national defense, the President shall define certain vital military and naval installations or equipment as requiring protection against the general dissemination of information relative thereto, it shall be unlawful to make any photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation of such vital military and naval installations or equi)pment without first obtaining permission of the commanding officer of the military or naval post, camp, or station concerned, or higher authority, and promptly submitting the product obtained to such commanding officer or higher authority for censorship or such other action as he may deem necessary. Any person found guilty of a violation of this section shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 2. Any person who uses or permits or procures the use of an aircraft for the purpose of making a photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation of vital military or naval installations or equipment, in violation of the preceding section, shall be liable to the penalty therein provided. SEC. 3. On and after thirty days from the date upon which the President defines any vital military or naval installation or equip- ment as being within the category contemplated under the first sec- tion of this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person to reproduce, publish, sell, or give away any photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation of the vital military or naval installations or equipment so defined, without first obtaining permis- sion of the commanding officer of the military or naval post, camp, or station concerned, or higher authority, unless such photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation has clearly indicated thereon that it has been censored by the proper military 3 January 12.1938 [S. 14851 [Public, No. 418] Military and naval defenses. Definition of vital installations, etc. , requiring protection. tlliuthoriTeod pho- togralhlis. etc., de- cinred unlawful. Censorship. Penalty for viola- tion. Use of aircraft. Unauthorized repro- duction of plans, etc.. declared nnlawful. Censorship.
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