[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR1.85]

[Page 126-127]
 
                       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 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

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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]