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FCC 1.401
Revised as of October 1, 2006
Goto Year:2005 | 2007
Sec.  1.401   Petitions for rulemaking.

   (a) Any interested person may petition for the issuance, amendment or repeal
   of a rule or regulation.

   (b) The petition for rulemaking shall conform to the requirements of  Sec.  Sec. 1.49,
   1.52 and 1.419(b) (or  Sec. 1.420(e), if applicable), and shall be submitted or
   addressed to the Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, Washington,
   DC 20554, or (except in broadcast allotment proceedings) may be submitted
   electronically.

   (c) The petition shall set forth the text or substance of the proposed rule,
   amendment, or rule to be repealed, together with all facts, views, arguments
   and data deemed to support the action requested, and shall indicate how the
   interests of petitioner will be affected.

   (d) Petitions for amendment of the FM Table of Assignments ( Sec. 73.202 of this
   chapter) or the Television Table of Assignments ( Sec. 73.606) shall be served by
   petitioner on any Commission licensee or permittee whose channel assignment
   would be changed by grant of the petition. The petition shall be accompanied
   by a certificate of service on such licensees or permittees. A draft Notice
   of Proposed Rule Making may be submitted with a petition for amendment of
   the FM or Television Table of Assignments.

   (e) Petitions which are moot, premature, repetitive, frivolous, or which
   plainly do not warrant consideration by the Commission may be denied or
   dismissed without prejudice to the petitioner.

   [ 28 FR 12432 , Nov. 22, 1963, as amended at  28 FR 14503 , Dec. 31, 1963;  40 FR 53391 , Nov. 18, 1975;  45 FR 42621 , June 25, 1980;  63 FR 24125 , May 1, 1998]


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