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FCC 97.509
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 97.509 Administering VE requirements.
(a) Each examination for an amateur operator license must be administered by
a team of at least 3 VEs at an examination session coordinated by a VEC. The
number of examinees at the session may be limited.
(b) Each administering VE must:
(1) Be accredited by the coordinating VEC;
(2) Be at least 18 years of age;
(3) Be a person who holds an amateur operator license of the class specified
below:
(i) Amateur Extra, Advanced or General Class in order to administer a
Technician Class operator license examination;
(ii) Amateur Extra or Advanced Class in order to administer a General Class
operator license examination;
(iii) Amateur Extra Class in order to administer an Amateur Extra Class
operator license examination.
(4) Not be a person whose grant of an amateur station license or amateur
operator license has ever been revoked or suspended.
(c) Each administering VE must observe the examinee throughout the entire
examination. The administering VEs are responsible for the proper conduct
and necessary supervision of each examination. The administering VEs must
immediately terminate the examination upon failure of the examinee to comply
with their instructions.
(d) No VE may administer an examination to his or her spouse, children,
grandchildren, stepchildren, parents, grandparents, stepparents, brothers,
sisters, stepbrothers, stepsisters, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and
in-laws.
(e) No VE may administer or certify any examination by fraudulent means or
for monetary or other consideration including reimbursement in any amount in
excess of that permitted. Violation of this provision may result in the
revocation of the grant of the VE's amateur station license and the
suspension of the grant of the VE's amateur operator license.
(f) No examination that has been compromised shall be administered to any
examinee. The same question set may not be re-administered to the same
examinee.
(g) [Reserved]
(h) Upon completion of each examination element, the administering VEs must
immediately grade the examinee's answers. For examinations administered
remotely, the administering VEs must grade the examinee's answers at the
earliest practical opportunity. The administering VEs are responsible for
determining the correctness of the examinee's answers.
(i) When the examinee is credited for all examination elements required for
the operator license sought, 3 VEs must certify that the examinee is
qualified for the license grant and that the VEs have complied with these
administering VE requirements. The certifying VEs are jointly and
individually accountable for the proper administration of each examination
element reported. The certifying VEs may delegate to other qualified VEs
their authority, but not their accountability, to administer individual
elements of an examination.
(j) When the examinee does not score a passing grade on an examination
element, the administering VEs must return the application document to the
examinee and inform the examinee of the grade.
(k) The administering VEs must accommodate an examinee whose physical
disabilities require a special examination procedure. The administering VEs
may require a physician's certification indicating the nature of the
disability before determining which, if any, special procedures must be
used.
(l) The administering VEs must issue a CSCE to an examinee who scores a
passing grade on an examination element.
(m) After the administration of a successful examination for an amateur
operator license, the administering VEs must submit the application document
to the coordinating VEC according to the coordinating VEC's instructions.
[ 59 FR 54834 , Nov. 2, 1994, as amended at 61 FR 9953 , Mar. 12, 1996; 62 FR 17567 , Apr. 10, 1997; 63 FR 68980 , Dec. 14, 1998; 65 FR 6551 , Feb. 10, 2000;
71 FR 66465 , Nov. 15, 2006; 79 FR 35291 . June 20, 2014]
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Goto Section: 97.507 | 97.511
Goto Year: 2014 |
2016
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