[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR1.85]

[Page 120-121]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
              CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
 
PART 1--PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart A--General Rules of Practice and Procedure
 
Sec. 1.85  Suspension of operator licenses.

    Whenever grounds exist for suspension of an operator license, as 
provided in Sec. 303(m) of the Communications Act,

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the Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, with respect to 
amateur and commercial radio operator licenses, may issue an order 
suspending the operator license. No order of suspension of any 
operator's license shall take effect until 15 days' notice in writing of 
the cause for the proposed suspension has been given to the operator 
licensee, who may make written application to the Commission at any time 
within the said 15 days for a hearing upon such order. The notice to the 
operator licensee shall not be effective until actually received by him, 
and from that time he shall have 15 days in which to mail the said 
application. In the event that physical conditions prevent mailing of 
the application before the expiration of the 15-day period, the 
application shall then be mailed as soon as possible thereafter, 
accompanied by a satisfactory explanation of the delay. Upon receipt by 
the Commission of such application for hearing, said order of suspension 
shall be designated for hearing by the Chief, Wireless 
Telecommunications Bureau and said suspension shall be held in abeyance 
until the conclusion of the hearing. Upon the conclusion of said 
hearing, the Commission may affirm, modify, or revoke said order of 
suspension. If the license is ordered suspended, the operator shall send 
his operator license to the Licensing and Technical Analysis Branch, 
Public Safety and Private Wireless Division, Wireless Telecommunications 
Bureau, in Washington, DC, on or before the effective date of the order, 
or, if the effective date has passed at the time notice is received, the 
license shall be sent to the Commission forthwith.

[63 FR 68920, Dec. 14, 1998]