[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR97.205]

[Page 631]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
                         COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 97_AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart C_Special Operations
 
Sec.  97.205  Repeater station.

    (a) Any amateur station licensed to a holder of a Technician, 
General, Advanced or Amateur Extra Class operator license may be a 
repeater. A holder of a Technician, General, Advanced or Amateur Extra 
Class operator license may be the control operator of a repeater, 
subject to the privileges of the class of operator license held.
    (b) A repeater may receive and retransmit only on the 10 m and 
shorter wavelength frequency bands except the 28.0-29.5 MHz, 50.0-51.0 
MHz, 144.0-144.5 MHz, 145.5-146.0 MHz, 222.00-222.15 MHz, 431.0-433.0 
Mhz, and 435.0-438.0 Mhz segments.
    (c) Where the transmissions of a repeater cause harmful interference 
to another repeater, the two station licensees are equally and fully 
responsible for resolving the interference unless the operation of one 
station is recommended by a frequency coordinator and the operation of 
the other station is not. In that case, the licensee of the non-
coordinated repeater has primary responsibility to resolve the 
interference.
    (d) A repeater may be automatically controlled.
    (e) Ancillary functions of a repeater that are available to users on 
the input channel are not considered remotely controlled functions of 
the station. Limiting the use of a repeater to only certain user 
stations is permissible.
    (f) [Reserved]
    (g) The control operator of a repeater that retransmits 
inadvertently communications that violate the rules in this part is not 
accountable for the violative communications.

[54 FR 25857, June 20, 1989, as amended at 55 FR 4613, Feb. 9, 1990; 56 
FR 32517, July 17, 1991; 58 FR 64385, Dec. 7, 1993; 59 FR 18975, Apr. 
21, 1994; 62 FR 55536, Oct. 27, 1997; 63 FR 41205, Aug. 3, 1998; 63 FR 
68980, Dec. 14, 1998]