Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 1.djvu/1139

 PUBLIC LAW 97-259—SEPT. 13, 1982

96 STAT. 1097

terns, regardless of whether such service is provided indiscriminately to eligible users on a commercial basis, except that a land station licensed in such service to multiple licensees or otherwise shared by authorized users (other than a nonprofit, cooperative station) shall not be interconnected with a telephone exchange or interexchange service or facility for any purpose, except to the extent that (A) each user obtains such interconnection directly from a duly authorized carrier; or (B) licensees jointly obtain such interconnection directly from a duly authorized carrier. "(2) A person engaged in private land mobile service shall not, insofar as such person is so engaged, be deemed a common carrier for any purpose under this Act. A common carrier shall not provide any dispatch service on any frequency allocated for common carrier service, except to the extent such dispatch service is provided on stations licensed in the domestic public land mobile radio service before January 1, 1982. "(3) No State or local government shall have any authority to impose any rate or entry regulation upon any private land mobile service, except that nothing in this subsection may be construed to impair such jurisdiction with respect to common carrier stations in the mobile service.". (b)(1) Section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(gg) 'Private land mobile service' means a mobile service which provides a regularly interacting group of base, mobile, portable, and associated control and relay stations (whether licensed on an individual, cooperative, or multiple basis) for private one-way or two-way land mobile radio communications by eligible users over designated areas of operation.". (2) Section 3(n) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. "Mobile 153(n)) is amended to read as follows: service." "(n) 'Mobile service' means a radio communication service carried on between mobile stations or receivers and land stations, and by mobile stations communicating among themselves, and includes both one-way and two-way radio communication services.". NOTICES OF APPEAL

SEC. 121. Section 402(d) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 402(d)) is amended— (1) by striking out "Commission" the first place it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "appellant'; (2) by striking out "date of service upon it" and inserting in lieu thereof "filing of such notice"; (3) by striking out "and shall thereafter" and all that follows through "Washington"; and (4) by striking out "Within thirty days after the filing of an appeal, the" and inserting in lieu thereof "The". COMPUTATION OF CERTAIN FIUNG DEADUNES

SEC. 122. The last sentence of section 405 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 405) is amended by striking out "public notice" and all that follows through the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "the Commission gives public notice of the order, decision, report, or action complained of.".

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