[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR95.193]

[Page 569-570]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
                         COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 95_PERSONAL RADIO SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart B_Family Radio Service (FRS)
 
Sec.  95.193  (FRS Rule 3) Types of communications.

    (a) You may use an FRS unit to conduct two-way voice communications 
with another person. You may use an FRS unit to transmit one-way voice 
or non-voice communications only to establish communications with 
another person, send an emergency message, provide traveler assistance, 
provide location information, transmit a brief

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text message, make a voice page, or to conduct a brief test.
    (b) Non-voice communications. (1) The FRS unit may transmit tones to 
make contact or to continue communications with a particular FRS unit. 
If the tone is audible (more than 300 Hertz), it must be transmitted 
continuously no longer than 15 seconds at one time. If the tone is 
subaudible (300 Hertz or less), it may be transmitted continuously only 
while you are talking.
    (2) The FRS unit may transmit digital data containing location 
information, or requesting location information from one or more other 
FRS units, or containing a brief text message to another specific FRS 
unit. Digital data transmissions must be initiated by a manual action or 
command of a user, except that an FRS unit receiving an interrogation 
request may automatically respond with its location. Digital data 
transmissions shall not exceed one second, and shall be limited to no 
more than one digital transmission within a thirty-second period, except 
that an FRS unit may automatically respond to more than one 
interrogation request received within a thirty-second period.
    (c) You must not use an FRS unit in connection with any activity 
which is against federal, state or local law.
    (d) You must, at all times and on all channels, give priority to 
emergency communication messages concerning the immediate safety of life 
or the immediate protection of property.
    (e) No FRS unit may be interconnected to the public switched 
network.

[61 FR 28768, June 6, 1996, as amended at 68 FR 9901, Mar. 3, 2003]