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Code of Federal Regulations Title 47. Telecommunication § 47.80.326 Notification of resumption of normal working

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(a) When distress traffic has ceased, or when complete silence is no longer necessary on a frequency which has been used for distress traffic, the station which has controlled this traffic must transmit on that frequency a message addressed “to all stations” indicating that normal working may be resumed.

(1) In radiotelegraphy, this message consists of:

(i) The distress signal SOS;

(ii) The call “to all stations” (CQ), sent three times;

(iii) The word DE;

(iv) The call sign of the station sending the message;

(v) The time of handing in the message;

(vi) The name and call sign of the mobile station which was in distress;

(vii) The service abbreviation QUM.

(2) In radiotelephony, this message consists of:

(i) The distress signal MAYDAY;

(ii) The call “Hello all stations”, spoken three times;

(iii) The words THIS IS;

(iv) The call sign or other identification of the station sending the message;

(v) The time of handing in of the message;

(vi) The name and call sign of the mobile station which was in distress;

(vii) The words SEELONCE FEENEE OR PRU–DONCE.

(b) Until they receive the foregoing message indicating that normal or limited working may be resumed, all stations which are aware of the distress traffic, and which are not taking part in it, are forbidden to transmit on the frequencies on which the distress traffic is taking place.

The duty of registering real estate, in the city of Philadelphia, shall hereafter devolve upon the purchaser, devisee by will, the person to whom an allotment in partition shall have been made, or their agent, and they shall be required to present their deeds, or title papers, at the registry bureau, so that the same may be endorsed, in accordance with the act of assembly to which this is supplementary;  1 and all owners of real estate, in the said city, not registered as by law directed, are required forthwith to do so, and if, after three months' notice, by public advertisement, in at least five daily papers of said city (two of which shall be German), and a written or printed notice shall have been served on the owner, or owners, and they shall fail to have such record made, then and in that case, they shall be subject to a fine of five dollars for such neglect, and in case the same is neglected for the space of six months a lien for the accumulated fines and costs shall be filed and collected, as municipal claims are now or may hereafter be by law collected; the said fines to be paid into the city treasury; and further, no property, so returned, shall be subject to sale for taxes or other municipal claims thereafter to accrue, as a lien of record thereon, except in the name of the owner as returned, and after recovery by suit, and service of the writ on him, made as in case of a summons.

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