[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 47, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 47CFR1.85]



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                       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, 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



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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]