Sec. 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]