§ 73.507   Minimum distance separations between stations.

   (a) Minimum distance separations. No application for a new station, or
   change  in channel or transmitter site or increase in facilities of an
   existing station, will be granted unless the proposed facilities will be
   located so as to meet the adjacent channel distance separations specified in
   § 73.207(a) for the class of station involved with respect to assignment on
   Channels 221, 222, and 223 listed in § 73.201 (except where in the case of an
   existing station the proposed facilities fall within the provisions of
   § 73.207(b)), or where a Class D station is changing frequency to comply with
   the requirements of § 73.512.

   (b) Stations authorized as of September 10, 1962, which do not meet the
   requirements of paragraph (a) of this section and § 73.511, may continue to
   operate as authorized; but any application to change facilities will be
   subject to the provisions of this section.

   (c)(1)  Stations  separated in frequency by 10.6 or 10.8 MHz (53 or 54
   channels) from allotments or assignments on non-reserved channels will not
   be authorized unless they conform to the separations in Table A given in
   § 73.207.

   (2) Under the United States-Mexican FM Broadcasting Agreement, for stations
   and  assignments  differing in frequency by 10.6 to 10.8 MHz (53 or 54
   channels), U.S. noncommercial educational FM allotments and assignments must
   meet the separations given in Table C of § 73.207 to Mexican allotments or
   assignments in the border area.

   (Secs. 4, 5, 303, 48 Stat., as amended, 1066, 1068, 1082 (47 U.S.C. 154,
   155, 303))

   [ 42 FR 36828 , July 18, 1977, as amended at  43 FR 39716 , Sept. 6, 1978;  44 FR 65764 , Nov. 15, 1979;  49 FR 10264 , Mar. 20, 1984;  49 FR 19670 , May 9, 1984]

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