---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 80.17"
title: "47"
number: "80.17"
heading: "Administrative classes of stations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/80.17"
---

# §80.17. Administrative classes of stations.

- (a) **Stations in the Maritime Mobile Service are licensed according to class of station as follows—**
  - (1) **Public coast stations.**
  - (2) **Private coast stations.**
  - (3) **Maritime support stations.**
  - (4) **Ship stations.** The ship station license may include authority to operate other radio station classes aboard ship such as; radionavigation, on-board, satellite, EPIRB, radiotelephone, radiotelegraph and survival craft.
  - (5) **Marine utility stations.**
- (b) Stations on land in the Maritime Radiodetermination Service are licensed according to class of station as follows:
  - (1) **Shore radiolocation stations.**
  - (2) **Shore radionavigation stations.**
- (c) **Fixed stations in the Fixed Service associated with the maritime services are licensed as follows—**
  - (1) **Operational fixed stations.**
  - (2) **Alaska-public fixed stations.**
  - (3) **Alaska-private fixed stations.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151-155, 301-609; 3 U.S.T. 3450, 3 U.S.T. 4726, 12 U.S.T. 2377.

### Source

Source: 51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, unless otherwise noted.