Title 47 — Telecommunications
Chapter 13 — Public Safety Communications and Electromagnetic Spectrum Auctions
§ 1431. Public safety roaming and priority access
Statutory text
The Commission may adopt rules, if necessary in the public interest, to improve the ability of public safety networks to roam onto commercial networks and to gain priority access to commercial networks in an emergency if—
the public safety entity equipment is technically compatible with the commercial network;
the commercial network is reasonably compensated; and
such access does not preempt or otherwise terminate or degrade all existing voice conversations or data sessions.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012
Pub. L. 112–96 title VI § 6211 · 126 Stat. 156
Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 1431
(Pub. L. 112–96, title VI, § 6211, Feb. 22, 2012, 126 Stat. 218.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 112–96, title VI, § 6211, Feb. 22, 2012, 126 Stat. 218.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 6211. PUBLIC SAFETY ROAMING AND PRIORITY ACCESS. The Commission may adopt rules, if necessary in the public interest, to improve the ability of public safety networks to roam onto commercial networks and to gain priority access to commercial networks in an emergency if— (1) the public safety entity equipment is technically compatible with the commercial network; (2) the commercial network is reasonably compensated; and (3) such access does not preempt or otherwise terminate or degrade all existing voice conversations or data sessions.
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