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FCC 90.720
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 90.720 Channels available for public safety/mutual aid.
(a) Part 90 licensees who meet the eligibility criteria of Sec. Sec. 90.20(a)(1),
90.20(a)(2)(i), 90.20(a)(2)(ii), 90.20(a)(2)(iii), 90.20(a)(2)(iv),
90.20(a)(2)(vii), 90.20(a)(2)(ix), or 90.20(a)(2)(xiii) are authorized by
this rule to use mobile and/or portable units on Channels 161–170 throughout
the United States, its territories, and possessions to transmit:
(1) Communications relating to the immediate safety of life;
(2) Communications to facilitate interoperability among entities eligible
under Sec. Sec. 90.20(a)(1), 90.20(a)(2)(i), 90.20(a)(2)(ii), 90.20(a)(2)(iii),
90.20(a)(2)(iv), 90.20(a)(2)(vii), 90.20(a)(2)(ix), and 90.20(a)(2)(xiii);
or
(3) Communications on behalf of and by members of organizations established
for disaster relief purposes having an emergency radio communications plan (
i.e., licensees eligible under Sec. 90.20(a)(2)(vii)) for the transmission of
communications relating to the safety of life or property, the establishment
and maintenance of temporary relief facilities, and the alleviation of
emergency conditions during periods of actual or impending emergency, or
disaster, until substantially normal conditions are restored; for limited
training exercises incidental to an emergency radio communications plan, and
for necessary operational communications of the disaster relief organization
or its chapter affiliates.
(b) Any Government entity and any non-Government entity eligible to obtain a
license under Sec. Sec. 90.20(a)(1), 90.20(a)(2)(i), 90.20(a)(2)(ii),
90.20(a)(2)(iii), 90.20(a)(2)(iv), 90.20(a)(2)(vii), 90.20(a)(2)(ix), or
90.20(a)(2)(xiii) is also eligible to obtain a license for base/mobile
operations on Channels 161 through 170. Base/mobile or base/portable
communications on these channels that do not relate to the immediate safety
of life or to communications interoperability among the above-specified
entities, may only be conducted on a secondary non-interference basis to
such communications.
[ 62 FR 18936 , Apr. 17, 1997]
Goto Section: 90.719 | 90.721
Goto Year: 2007 |
2009
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