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[CITE: 47USC323]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO
 
                       Part I--General Provisions
 
Sec. 323. Interference between Government and commercial 
        stations
        
    (a) At all places where Government and private or commercial radio 
stations on land operate in such close proximity that interference with 
the work of Government stations cannot be avoided when they are 
operating simultaneously, such private or commercial stations as do 
interfere with the transmission or reception of radio communications or 
signals by the Government stations concerned shall not use their 
transmitters during the first fifteen minutes of each hour, local 
standard time.
    (b) The Government stations for which the above-mentioned division 
of time is established shall transmit radio communications or signals 
only during the first fifteen minutes of each hour, local standard time, 
except in case of signals or radio communications relating to vessels in 
distress and vessel requests for information as to course, location, or 
compass direction.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 323, 48 Stat. 1090.)
