[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 47, Volume 5]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 47CFR97.115]



[Page 580-581]

 

                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

 

        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)

 

PART 97_AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE--Table of Contents

 

                  Subpart B_Station Operation Standards

 

Sec.  97.115  Third party communications.



    (a) An amateur station may transmit messages for a third party to:

    (1) Any station within the jurisdiction of the United States.

    (2) Any station within the jurisdiction of any foreign government 

when transmitting emergency or disaster relief communications and any 

station within the jurisdiction of any foreign government whose 

administration has made arrangements with the United States to allow 

amateur stations to be used for transmitting international 

communications on behalf of third parties. No station shall transmit 

messages for a third party to any station within the jurisdiction of any 

foreign government whose administration has not made such an 

arrangement. This



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prohibition does not apply to a message for any third party who is 

eligible to be a control operator of the station.

    (b) The third party may participate in stating the message where:

    (1) The control operator is present at the control point and is 

continuously monitoring and supervising the third party's participation; 

and

    (2) The third party is not a prior amateur service licensee whose 

license was revoked; suspended for less than the balance of the license 

term and the suspension is still in effect; suspended for the balance of 

the license term and relicensing has not taken place; or surrendered for 

cancellation following notice of revocation, suspension or monetary 

forfeiture proceedings. The third party may not be the subject of a 

cease and desist order which relates to amateur service operation and 

which is still in effect.

    (c) At the end of an exchange of international third party 

communications, the station must also transmit in the station 

identification procedure the call sign of the station with which a third 

party message was exchanged.



[54 FR 25857, June 20, 1989; 54 FR 39535, Sept. 27, 1989, as amended at 

71 FR 25982, May 3, 2006]