---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 95.1731"
title: "47"
number: "95.1731"
heading: "Permissible GMRS uses."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/95.1731"
---

# §95.1731. Permissible GMRS uses.


The operator of a GMRS station may use that station for two-way plain language voice communications with other GMRS stations and with FRS units concerning personal or business activities.

- (a) **Emergency communications.** Any GMRS channel may be used for emergency communications or for traveler assistance. Operators of GMRS stations must, at all times and on all channels, give priority to emergency communications.
- (b) **One-way communications.** The operator of a GMRS station may use that station to transmit one-way communications:
  - (1) To call for help or transmit other emergency communications;
  - (2) To provide warnings of hazardous road conditions to travelers; or,
  - (3) **To make brief test transmissions.**
- (c) **Travelers assistance.** The operator of a GMRS station may transmit communications necessary to assist a traveler to reach a destination or to receive necessary services.
- (d) **Digital data.** GMRS hand-held portable units may transmit digital data containing location information, or requesting location information from one or more other GMRS or FRS units, or containing a brief text message to another specific GMRS or FRS unit.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 307.

### Source

Source: 82 FR 41104, Aug. 29, 2017, unless otherwise noted.