Sec. 90.51  Emergency repair of public communications facilities.

    (a) Eligibility. Communications common carriers are eligible in this 
service for radio facilities to be used in effecting expeditious repairs 
to interruption of public communications facilities where such 
interruptions have resulted in disabling intercity circuits or service 
to a multiplicity of subscribers in a general area. Stations authorized 
under this section may be used only when no other means of communication 
is readily available, for the transmission of messages relating to the 
safety of life and property and messages which are necessary for the 
efficient restoration of the public communication facilities which have 
been disrupted.
    (b) [Reserved]
[ 43 FR 54791 , Nov. 22, 1978, as amended at  48 FR 9272 , Mar. 4, 1983]