[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR68.211]

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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 68_CONNECTION OF TERMINAL EQUIPMENT TO THE TELEPHONE NETWORK
--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart C_Terminal Equipment Approval Procedures
 
Sec. 68.211  Terminal equipment approval revocation procedures.

    (a) Causes for revocation. The Commission may revoke the 
interconnection authorization of terminal equipment, whether that 
authorization was acquired through certification by a Telecommunications 
Certification Body or through the Supplier's Declaration of Conformity 
process in Sec. Sec. 68.320 through 68.350 of this part, where:
    (1) The equipment approval is shown to have been obtained by 
misrepresentation;
    (2) The approved equipment is shown to cause harms to the public 
switched telephone network, as defined in Sec. 68.3;
    (3) The responsible party willfully or repeatedly fails to comply 
with the terms and conditions of its equipment approval; or
    (4) The responsible party willfully or repeatedly fails to comply 
with any rule, regulation or order issued by the Commission under the 
Communications Act of 1934 relating to terminal equipment.
    (b) Notice of intent to revoke interconnection authority. Before 
revoking interconnection authority under the provisions of this section, 
the Commission, or the Enforcement Bureau under delegated authority, 
will issue a written Notice of Intent to Revoke Part 68 Interconnection 
Authority, or a Joint Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture and 
Notice of Intent to Revoke Part 68 Interconnection Authority pursuant to 
Sec. Sec. 1.80 and 1.89 of this chapter.
    (c) Delivery. The notice will be sent via certified mail to the 
responsible party for the terminal equipment at

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issue at the address provided to the Administrative Council for Terminal 
Attachments.
    (d) Reauthorization. A product that has had its approval revoked may 
not be authorized for connection to the public switched telephone 
network for a period of six months from the date of revocation of the 
approval.
    (e) Reconsideration or appeal. A responsible party of terminal 
equipment that has had its authorization revoked and/or that has been 
assessed a forfeiture may request reconsideration or make administrative 
appeal of the decision pursuant to part 1 of the Commission's rules: 
Practice and Procedure, part 1 of this chapter.

[66 FR 7583, Jan. 24, 2001, as amended at 67 FR 13229, Mar. 21, 2002; 68 
FR 13850, Mar. 21, 2003]