§  74.14   Service or program tests.

   (a) Upon completion of construction of a radio station in accordance
   with the terms of the construction permit, the technical provisions of
   the application therefor, technical requirements of this chapter, and
   applicable engineering standards, and when an application for station
   license has been filed showing the station to be in satisfactory
   operating condition, the permittee or any class of station listed in
   this part may, without further authority of the Commission, conduct
   service or program tests.

   (b) Program test authority for stations authorized under this part will
   continue valid during Commission consideration of the application for
   license and during this period further extension of the construction
   permit is not required. Program test authority shall be automatically
   terminated with final action on the application for station license.

   (c) The authorization for tests embodied in this section shall not be
   construed as approval by the Commission of the application for station
   license.

   [ 38 FR 18378 , July 10, 1973]