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 
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license was revoked; suspended for less than the balance of the license 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 relicensing 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) 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]