---
kind: "unit"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
key: "ch13"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 13"
heading: "Public Safety Communications and Electromagnetic Spectrum Auctions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/ch13"
sections_count: 33
---

# Chapter 13 — Public Safety Communications and Electromagnetic Spectrum Auctions

Title 47 — Telecommunications

## Sections

- [§1401. Definitions](/usc/47/1401.md)
- [§1402. Rule of construction](/usc/47/1402.md)
- [§1403. Enforcement](/usc/47/1403.md)
- [§1404. National security restrictions on use of funds and auction participation](/usc/47/1404.md)

## Contents

- [Subchapter I — Reallocation of Public Safety Spectrum](/usc/47/ch13-schI.md)
- [Subchapter II — Governance of Public Safety Spectrum](/usc/47/ch13-schII.md)
- [Subchapter III — Public Safety Commitments](/usc/47/ch13-schIII.md)
- [Subchapter IV — Spectrum Auction Authority](/usc/47/ch13-schIV.md)
- [Subchapter V — Next Generation 9–1–1 Advancement Act of 2012](/usc/47/ch13-schV.md)