Sec. 95.179  Individuals who may be station operators.

    (a) An individual GMRS system licensee may permit his/her immediate 
family members living in the same household to be station operators in 
his/her GMRS system. They may communicate messages about the licensee's 
personal activities and about the licensee's business activities. 
Immediate family members are the:
    (1) Licensee;
    (2) Licensee's spouse;
    (3) Licensee's children, grandchildren, stepchildren;
    (4) Licensee's parents, grandparents, stepparents;
    (5) Licensee's brothers, sisters;
    (6) Licensee's aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews; and
    (7) Licensee's in-laws.
    (b) In a GMRS system licensed to a non-individual, eligible station 
operators are limited to the persons listed in paragraph (b)(1) of this 
section with the conditions listed in paragraph (b)(2) of this section 
as follows:
    (1) Only the following persons may be permitted to operate under the 
authority of a GMRS system licensed to a non-individual:

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                                            These persons may be station
     If the GMRS system licensee is--                operators--        
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(i) A partnership.........................  Licensee's partners and     
                                             employees.                 
(ii) A corporation........................  Licensee's officers,        
                                             directors, members and     
                                             employees.                 
(iii) An association......................  Licensee's members and      
                                             employees.                 
(iv) A governmental unit..................  Licensee's employees.       
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    (2) These persons may only communicate messages about the licensee's 
business activities. Employees of the licensee may communicate messages 
while acting within the scope of their employment, and only about the 
licensee's business activities.
    (c) The licensee may permit a telephone answering service employee 
to be a station operator if:
    (1) That employee only communicates messages received for the 
licensee to the licensee;
    (2) The station equipment at the telephone answering point is not 
shared in any other GMRS system; and

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    (3) The station at the telephone answering service point is not 
interconnected to the public switched telephone network.
    (d) The station operator of a GMRS system licensed to an individual 
may be a station operator in any other GMRS system if he/she has 
permission from the licensee of the other GMRS system.
    (e) The provisions of Sec. 95.33 regarding cooperative use do not 
apply to or govern the authority of a GMRS licensee to designate station 
operators in accordance with the provisions of this section.
    (f) Except for emergency communications (see Sec. 95.143), only 
persons specified in paragraphs (a) through (d) may be GMRS station 
operators.
[ 48 FR 35237 , Aug. 3, 1983, as amended at  53 FR 47717 , Nov. 25, 1988;  53 FR 51625 , Dec. 22, 1988]