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FCC 97.19
Revised as of October 2, 2015
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2016
§ 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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