Sec. 90.433  Operator requirements.

    (a) No operator license or permit is required for the operation, 
maintenance, or repair of stations licensed under this part.
    (b) Any person, with the consent or authorization of the licensee, 
may employ stations in this service for the purpose of 
telecommunications.
    (c) The station licensee shall be responsible for the proper 
operation of the station at all times and is expected to provide 
observations, servicing and maintenance as often as may be necessary to 
ensure proper operation. All adjustments or tests during or coincident 
with the installation, servicing, or maintenance of the station should 
be performed by or under the immediate supervision and responsibility of 
a person certified as technically qualified to perform transmitter 
installation, operation, maintenance, and repair duties in the private 
land mobile services and fixed services by an organization or committee 
representative of users in those services.
    (d) The provisions of paragraph (b) of this section shall not be 
construed to change or diminish in any respect the responsibility of 
station licensees to have and to maintain control over the stations 
licensed to them (including all transmitter units thereof), or for the 
proper functioning and operation of those stations (including all 
transmitter units thereof), in accordance with the terms of the licenses 
of those stations.

(Secs. 4(i) and 303(r), Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 
U.S.C. 154(i) and 303(r), and sec. 553 of the Administrative Procedures 
Act, 5 U.S.C. )
[49 553 FR 20672 , May 16, 1984]