§ 97.115   Third party communications.

   (a) An amateur station may transmit messages for a third party to:

   (1) Any station within the jurisdiction of the United States.

   (2) Any station within the jurisdiction of any foreign government when
   transmitting emergency or disaster relief communications and any
   station within the jurisdiction of any foreign government whose
   administration has made arrangements with the United States to allow
   amateur stations to be used for transmitting international
   communications on behalf of third parties. No station shall transmit
   messages for a third party to any station within the jurisdiction of
   any foreign government whose administration has not made such an
   arrangement. This prohibition does not apply to a message for any third
   party who is eligible to be a control operator of the station.

   (b) The third party may participate in stating the message where:

   (1) The control operator is present at the control point and is
   continuously monitoring and supervising the third party's
   participation; and

   (2) The third party is not a prior amateur service licensee whose
   license was revoked or not renewed after hearing and re-licensing has
   not taken place; suspended for less than the balance of the license
   term and the suspension is still in effect; suspended for the balance
   of the license term and re-licensing has not taken place; or
   surrendered for cancellation following notice of revocation, suspension
   or monetary forfeiture proceedings. The third party may not be the
   subject of a cease and desist order which relates to amateur service
   operation and which is still in effect.

   (c) No station may transmit third party communications while being
   automatically controlled except a station transmitting a RTTY or data
   emission.

   (d) At the end of an exchange of international third party
   communications, the station must also transmit in the station
   identification procedure the call sign of the station with which a
   third party message was exchanged.

   [ 54 FR 25857 , June 20, 1989;  54 FR 39535 , Sept. 27, 1989, as amended at
    71 FR 25982 , May 3, 2006;  71 FR 66462 , Nov. 15, 2006]

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