[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
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]