Sec. 80.507  Scope of service.

    (a) A private coast station or marine utility station using 
telephony serves the operational and business needs of ships including 
the transmission of safety communication.
    (b) In areas where environmental communications are provided by U.S. 
Government stations or by public coast stations, private coast stations 
and marine utility stations on shore must not duplicate that service. In 
other areas, private coast stations and marine utility stations on shore 
may

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transmit weather and hydrographic information required for the ships 
with which they normally communicate. Private coast stations may provide 
environmental communication service in areas where adequate service is 
not available.
    (c) Each marine utility station on shore must be operated as a 
private coast station except that it may be operated at temporary 
unspecified locations. Marine utility stations on ships are operated as 
ship stations.
    (d) Each private coast station is authorized by rule to use hand-
held marine radios in the vicinity of the station's fixed transmitter 
site on those frequencies assigned to the private coast station. Hand-
held communications must conform to those normally permitted under a 
marine utility station authorization and must be limited to contact with 
the associated private coast station and ship stations in the vicinity 
of the private coast station.
[ 51 FR 31213 , Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at  62 FR 40307 , July 28, 1997]