Regulations last checked for updates: Jan 18, 2025

Title 47 - Telecommunication last revised: Jan 15, 2025
§ 101.203 - Communications concerning safety of life and property.

(a) Handling and transmission of messages concerning the safety of life or property which is in imminent danger must be afforded priority over other messages.

(b) No person may knowingly cause to be transmitted any false or fraudulent message concerning the safety of life or property, or refuse upon demand immediately to relinquish the use of a radio circuit to enable the transmission of messages concerning the safety of life or property which is in imminent danger, or knowingly interfere or otherwise obstruct the transmission of such messages.

authority: 47 U.S.C. 154,303
source: 61 FR 26677, May 28, 1996, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 47 CFR 101.203