[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR97.115]

[Page 596]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 97_AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart B_Station Operation Standards
 
Sec. 97.115  Third party communications.

    (a) An amateur station may transmit messages for a third party to:
    (1) Any station within the jurisdiction of the United States.
    (2) Any station within the jurisdiction of any foreign government 
when transmitting emergency or disaster relief communications and any 
station within the jurisdiction of any foreign government whose 
administration has made arrangements with the United States to allow 
amateur stations to be used for transmitting international 
communications on behalf of third parties. No station shall transmit 
messages for a third party to any station within the jurisdiction of any 
foreign government whose administration has not made such an 
arrangement. This prohibition does not apply to a message for any third 
party who is eligible to be a control operator of the station.
    (b) The third party may participate in stating the message where:
    (1) The control operator is present at the control point and is 
continuously monitoring and supervising the third party's participation; 
and
    (2) The third party is not a prior amateur service licensee whose 
license was revoked or not renewed after hearing and re-licensing has 
not taken place; suspended for less than the balance of the license term 
and the suspension is still in effect; suspended for the balance of the 
license term and re-licensing has not taken place; or surrendered for 
cancellation following notice of revocation, suspension or monetary 
forfeiture proceedings. The third party may not be the subject of a 
cease and desist order which relates to amateur service operation and 
which is still in effect.
    (c) No station may transmit third party communications while being 
automatically controlled except a station transmitting a RTTY or data 
emission.
    (d) At the end of an exchange of international third party 
communications, the station must also transmit in the station 
identification procedure the call sign of the station with which a third 
party message was exchanged.

[54 FR 25857, June 20, 1989; 54 FR 39535, Sept. 27, 1989, as amended at 
71 FR 25982, May 3, 2006; 71 FR 66462, Nov. 15, 2006]