Sec.  1.1703   Definitions.

   For purposes of this subpart, the following definitions apply:

   (a) Application. A request on Form 327 for a station license as defined in
   Section 3(b) of the Communications Act, completed in accordance with  Sec. 78.15
   and signed in accordance with  Sec. 78.16 of this chapter, or a similar request
   to amend a pending application or to modify or renew an authorization. The
   term also encompasses requests to assign rights granted by the authorization
   or to transfer control of entities holding authorizations.

   (b)  Authorization.  A  written instrument issued by the FCC conveying
   authority  to  operate, for a specified period, a station in the Cable
   Television Relay Service. In addition, this term includes authority conveyed
   by operation of rule upon filing notification of aeronautical frequency
   usage by MVPDs or registration statements by cable operators.

   (c)  Cable  Operations  And Licensing System (COALS). The consolidated
   database, application filing system, and processing system for Multichannel
   Video and Cable Television Services (MVCTS) and the Cable Television Relay
   Service  (CARS). COALS supports electronic filing of all applications,
   notifications, registrations, reports, and related documents by applicants
   and licensees in the MVCTS and CARS, and provides public access to licensing
   information.

   (d) Cable Television Relay Service (CARS). All services authorized under
   part 78 of this title.

   (e) Filings. Any application, notification, registration statement, or
   report in plain text or, when as prescribed, on FCC Forms 320, 321, 322,
   324, 325, or 327, whether filed in paper form or electronically.

   (f) Multichannel Video and Cable Television Services (MVCTS). All services
   authorized or operated in accordance with part 76 of this title.

   (g) Receipt date. The date an electronic or paper application is received at
   the appropriate location at the Commission or the lock box bank. Major
   amendments to pending applications as defined in  Sec. 78.109 of this chapter,
   will result in the assignment of a new receipt date.

   (h) Signed. For manually filed applications only, an original hand-written
   signature.  For  electronically filed applications only, an electronic
   signature.  An  electronic  signature shall consist of the name of the
   applicant transmitted electronically via COALS and entered on the filing as
   a signature.