Sec.  90.720   Channels available for public safety/mutual aid.

   (a) Part 90 licensees who meet the eligibility criteria of  Sec.  Sec. 90.20(a)(1),
   90.20(a)(2)(i), 90.20(a)(2)(ii), 90.20(a)(2)(iii), 90.20(a)(2)(iv),
   90.20(a)(2)(vii), 90.20(a)(2)(ix), or 90.20(a)(2)(xiii) are authorized by
   this rule to use mobile and/or portable units on Channels 161–170 throughout
   the United States, its territories, and possessions to transmit:

   (1) Communications relating to the immediate safety of life;

   (2) Communications to facilitate interoperability among entities eligible
   under  Sec.  Sec. 90.20(a)(1), 90.20(a)(2)(i), 90.20(a)(2)(ii), 90.20(a)(2)(iii),
   90.20(a)(2)(iv), 90.20(a)(2)(vii), 90.20(a)(2)(ix), and 90.20(a)(2)(xiii);
   or

   (3) Communications on behalf of and by members of organizations established
   for disaster relief purposes having an emergency radio communications plan
   (i.e., licensees eligible under  Sec. 90.20(a)(2)(vii)) for the transmission of
   communications relating to the safety of life or property, the establishment
   and maintenance of temporary relief facilities, and the alleviation of
   emergency conditions during periods of actual or impending emergency, or
   disaster, until substantially normal conditions are restored; for limited
   training exercises incidental to an emergency radio communications plan, and
   for necessary operational communications of the disaster relief organization
   or its chapter affiliates.

   (b) Any Government entity and any non-Government entity eligible to obtain a
   license under  Sec.  Sec. 90.20(a)(1), 90.20(a)(2)(i), 90.20(a)(2)(ii),
   90.20(a)(2)(iii), 90.20(a)(2)(iv), 90.20(a)(2)(vii), 90.20(a)(2)(ix), or
   90.20(a)(2)(xiii) is also eligible to obtain a license for base/mobile
   operations on Channels 161 through 170. Base/mobile or base/portable
   communications on these channels that do not relate to the immediate safety
   of life or to communications interoperability among the above-specified
   entities, may only be conducted on a secondary non-interference basis to
   such communications.

   [ 62 FR 18936 , Apr. 17, 1997]