---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 80.91"
title: "47"
number: "80.91"
heading: "Order of priority of communications."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/80.91"
---

# §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.

## Notes

### Amendments

[68 FR 46960, Aug. 7, 2003]

### 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.

### Amendments

[68 FR 46960, Aug. 7, 2003]