Goto Section: 80.90 | 80.92 | Table of Contents

FCC 80.91
Revised as of October 1, 2013
Goto Year:2012 | 2014
§  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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Goto Section: 80.90 | 80.92

Goto Year: 2012 | 2014
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