Sec. 90.33  Scope.

    The Special Emergency Radio Service (SERS) covers the licensing of 
the radio communications of the following categories of activities: 
medical services, rescue organizations, veterinarians, handicapped 
persons, disaster relief organizations, school buses, beach patrols, 
establishments in isolated places, communications standby facilities, 
and emergency repair of public communications facilities. Entities not 
meeting these eligibility criteria may also be licensed in the SERS 
solely to provide service to SERS eligibles on one-way paging-only 
frequencies below 800 MHz, i.e., those frequencies with the assignment 
limitations appearing at Sec. 90.53(b)(4) or (26). Private carrier 
systems licensed on other SERS channels prior to June 1, 1990, may 
continue to operate on those channels solely to provide radio 
communications service to SERS eligibles. Rules as to eligibility for 
licensing, permissible communications and classes and number of 
stations, and any special requirements as to each of these categories 
are set forth in the following sections. Frequencies available for these 
categories of services are shown in a separate frequency table.
[ 55 FR 24896 , June 19, 1990]