Sec. 1.1110  Form of payment.

    (a) Fee payments should be in the form of a check, bank draft, on 
money order denominated in U.S. dollars and drawn on a United States 
financial institution and made payable to the Federal Communications 
Commission or by a Visa or MasterCard credit card. No other credit card 
is acceptable. Fees for applications and other filings paid by credit 
card will not be accepted unless the credit card section of FCC Form 159 
is completed in full. The Commission discourages applicants from 
submitting cash and will not be responsible for cash sent through the 
mail. Personal or corporate checks dated more than six months prior to 
their submission to the Commission's lockbox bank and postdated checks 
will not be accepted and will be returned as deficient. Third party 
checks (i.e., checks with a third party as maker or endorser) will not 
be accepted.
    (1) Specific procedures for electronic payment will be announced by 
Public Notice. Applicants must submit a written request to the 
Commission for authorization to make electronic payments of a fee for 
applications and other filings, as follows.
    (2) No electronic payment of an application fee will be accepted 
unless the payor has obtained the written authorization of the 
Commission to submit application fees electronically. It is the 
responsibility of the payor to insure that any electronic payment is 
made in the manner required by the Commission. Failure to comply with 
the Commission's procedures will result in the return of the application 
or other filing and the fee payment.
    (3) Payments by wire transfer will be accepted. Prior to making a 
payment by wire, the payor shall obtain the approval of the Managing 
Director or his designee. A completed FCC Form 159 shall be submitted to 
the Managing Director or his designee prior to initiating the wire 
transfer.
    (b) Applicants are required to submit one payment instrument (check, 
bank draft or money order) and FCC Form 155 with each application or 
filing. Multiple payment instruments for a single application or filing 
are not permitted. Except that a separate Fee Form (FCC Form 155) will 
not be required once the information requirements of that form (the Fee 
Code, fee amount, and total fee remitted) are incorporated into the 
underlying application form.
    (c) The Commission may accept multiple money orders in payment of a 
fee for a single application where the fee exceeds the maximum amount 
for a money order established by the issuing agency and the use of 
multiple money orders is the only practical method available for fee 
payment.
    (d) The Commission may require payment of fees with a cashier's 
check upon notification to an applicant or filer or prospective group of 
applicants under the conditions set forth below in paragraphs (d) (1) 
and (2) of this section.

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    (1) Payment by cashier's check may be required when a person or 
organization has made payment, on one or more occasions with a payment 
instrument on which the Commission does not receive final payment and 
such failure is not excused by bank error.
    (2) The Commission will notify the party in writing that future 
payments must be made by cashier's check until further notice. If, 
subsequent to such notice, payment is not made by cashier's check, the 
party's payment will not be accepted and its application or other filing 
will be returned.
    (e) All fees collected will be paid into the general fund of the 
United States Treasury in accordance with Pub. L. 99-272.
    (f) The Commission will furnish a stamped receipt of an application 
only upon request. In order to obtain a stamped receipt for an 
application (or other filing), the application package must include a 
copy of the first page of the application, clearly marked ``copy'', 
submitted expressly for the purpose of serving as a receipt of the 
filing. The copy should be the top document in the package. The copy 
will be date-stamped immediately and provided to the bearer of the 
submission, if hand delivered. For submissions by mail, the receipt copy 
will be provided through return mail if the filer has attached to the 
receipt copy a stamped self-addressed envelope of sufficient size to 
contain the date stamped copy of the application. No remittance receipt 
copies will be furnished.
[ 52 FR 5289 , Feb. 20, 1987;  52 FR 38232 , Oct. 15, 1987, as amended at  53 FR 40888 , Oct. 19, 1988;  55 FR 19171 , May 8, 1990. Redesignated at  59 FR 30998 , June 16, 1994, as amended at  59 FR 30999 , June 16, 1994. 
Redesignated at  60 FR 5326 , Jan. 27, 1995]