FCC 80.91 Revised as of October 1, 2006
Goto Year:2005 |
2007
Sec. 80.91 Order of priority of communications.
(a) All stations in the maritime mobile service and the maritime
mobile-satellite service shall be capable of offering four levels of
priority in the following order:
(1) Distress calls, distress messages, and distress traffic.
(2) Urgency communications.
(3) Safety communications.
(4) Other communications.
(b) In a fully automated system, where it is impracticable to offer all four
levels of priority, category 1 shall receive priority until such time as
intergovernmental agreements remove exemptions granted for such systems from
offering the complete order of priority.
[ 68 FR 46960 , Aug. 7, 2003]
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