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FCC 97.19
Revised as of October 1, 2011
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2012
§ 97.19 Application for a vanity call sign.
(a) The person named in an operator/primary station license grant or in
a club station license grant is eligible to make application for
modification of the license grant, or the renewal thereof, to show a
call sign selected by the vanity call sign system. Effective February
14, 2011, the person named in a club station license grant that shows
on the license a call sign that was selected by a trustee is not
eligible for an additional vanity call sign. (The person named in a
club station license grant that shows on the license a call sign that
was selected by a trustee is eligible for a vanity call sign for his or
her operator/primary station license grant on the same basis as any
other person who holds an operator/primary station license grant.)
Military recreation stations are not eligible for a vanity call sign.
(b) Each application for a modification of an operator/primary or club
station license grant, or the renewal thereof, to show a call sign
selected by the vanity call sign system must be filed in accordance
with § 1.913 of this chapter.
(c) Unassigned call signs are available to the vanity call sign system
with the following exceptions:
(1) A call sign shown on an expired license grant is not available to
the vanity call sign system for 2 years following the expiration of the
license.
(2) A call sign shown on a surrendered or canceled license grant
(except for a license grant that is canceled pursuant to § 97.31) is
not available to the vanity call sign system for 2 years following the
date such action is taken. (The availability of a call sign shown on a
license canceled pursuant to § 97.31 is governed by paragraph (c)(3) of
this section.)
(i) This 2-year period does not apply to any license grant pursuant to
paragraph (c)(3)(i), (ii), or (iii) of this section that is
surrendered, canceled, revoked, voided, or set aside because the
grantee acknowledged or the Commission determined that the grantee was
not eligible for the exception. In such a case, the call sign is not
available to the vanity call sign system for 30 days following the date
such action is taken, or for the period for which the call sign would
not have been available to the vanity call sign system pursuant to
paragraphs (c)(2) or (3) of this section but for the intervening grant
to the ineligible applicant, whichever is later.
(ii) An applicant to whose operator/primary station license grant, or
club station license grant for which the applicant is the trustee, the
call sign was previously assigned is exempt from the 2-year period set
forth in paragraph (c)(2) of this section.
(3) A call sign shown on a license canceled pursuant to § 97.31 of this
part is not available to the vanity call sign system for 2 years
following the person's death, or for 2 years following the expiration
of the license grant, whichever is sooner. If, however, a license is
canceled more than 2 years after the licensee's death (or within 30
days before the second anniversary of the licensee's death), the call
sign is not available to the vanity call sign system for 30 days
following the date such action is taken. The following applicants are
exempt from this 2-year period:
(i) An applicant to whose operator/primary station license grant, or
club station license grant for which the applicant is the trustee, the
call sign was previously assigned; or
(ii) An applicant who is the spouse, child, grandchild, stepchild,
parent, grandparent, stepparent, brother, sister, stepbrother,
stepsister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, or in-law of the person now
deceased or of any other deceased former holder of the call sign,
provided that the vanity call sign requested by the applicant is from
the group of call signs corresponding to the same or lower class of
operator license held by the applicant as designated in the sequential
call sign system; or
(iii) An applicant who is a club station license trustee acting with a
written statement of consent signed by either the licensee ante mortem
but who is now deceased, or by at least one relative as listed in
paragraph (c)(3)(ii) of this section, of the person now deceased or of
any other deceased former holder of the call sign, provided that the
deceased former holder was a member of the club during his or her life.
(d) The vanity call sign requested by an applicant must be selected
from the group of call signs corresponding to the same or lower class
of operator license held by the applicant as designated in the
sequential call sign system.
(1) The applicant must request that the call sign shown on the license
grant be vacated and provide a list of up to 25 call signs in order of
preference. In the event that the Commission receives more than one
application requesting a vanity call sign from an applicant on the same
receipt day, the Commission will process only the first such
application entered into the Universal Licensing System. Subsequent
vanity call sign applications from that applicant with the same receipt
date will not be accepted.
(2) The first assignable call sign from the applicant's list will be
shown on the license grant. When none of those call signs are
assignable, the call sign vacated by the applicant will be shown on the
license grant.
(3) Vanity call signs will be selected from those call signs assignable
at the time the application is processed by the FCC.
(4) A call sign designated under the sequential call sign system for
Alaska, Hawaii, Caribbean Insular Areas, and Pacific Insular areas will
be assigned only to a primary or club station whose licensee's mailing
address is in the corresponding state, commonwealth, or island. This
limitation does not apply to an applicant for the call sign as the
spouse, child, grandchild, stepchild, parent, grandparent, stepparent,
brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew,
or in-law, of the former holder now deceased.
[ 60 FR 7460 , Feb. 8, 1995, as amended at 60 FR 50123 , Sept. 28, 1995;
60 FR 53132 , Oct. 12, 1995; 63 FR 68979 , Dec. 14, 1998; 71 FR 66461 ,
Nov. 15, 2006; 75 FR 78170 , Dec. 15, 2010]
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