[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 47, Volume 5]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 47CFR80.91]



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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

 

        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)

 

PART 80_STATIONS IN THE MARITIME SERVICES--Table of Contents

 

             Subpart C_Operating Requirements and Procedures

 

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]