Sec. 74.632  Licensing requirements.

    (a) Licenses for television pickup, television STL, television 
microwave booster, or television relay stations will be issued only to 
licensees of television broadcast stations, and broadcast network-
entities and, further, on a secondary basis, to licensees of low power 
television stations. A separate application is required for each fixed 
station and the application shall be specific with regard to the 
frequency requested. A mobile station license may be issued for any 
number of mobile transmitters to operate in a specific area or frequency 
band and the applicant shall be specific with regard to the frequencies 
requested. In lieu of specifying specific transmitter types, applicants 
shall certify that the transmitter used or to be used at the requested 
facility is type accepted, or was manufactured before October 1, 1981. 
Applications for consolidation of individual mobile station licenses 
into a system license will be accepted only at the time application is 
made for renewal of the main (Part 73) station license.
    (b) A license for a TV relay station may be issued in any case where 
the circuit will operate between TV broadcast stations either by means 
of ``off-the-air'' pickup and relay or location of the initial relay 
station at the studio or transmitter of a TV broadcast station.
    (c) An application for construction permit for a new TV pickup 
station shall designate the TV broadcast station with which it is to be 
operated and specify the area in which the proposed operation is 
intended. The maximum permissible area of operation will generally be 
that of a standard metropolitan area, unless a special showing is made 
that a larger area is necessary.
    (d) Licensees who have two or more TV broadcast stations located in 
different cities shall, in applying for a new TV pickup station, 
designate the TV broadcast station in conjunction with which it is to be 
operated principally. Operation in a city which is not the city of 
license of the associated TV broadcast station is on a secondary, non-
interference basis to home-city users.
    (e) A license for a TV translator relay station will be issued only 
to licensees of low power TV and TV translator stations. The application 
for construction permit shall designate the

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television broadcast station to be relayed, the source of the television 
broadcast station's signals, and the television broadcast translator 
station with which it is to be operated. However, a television 
translator relay station license may be issued to a cooperative 
enterprise wholly owned by licensees of television broadcast translators 
or licensees of television broadcast translators and cable television 
owners or operators upon a showing that the applicant is qualified under 
the Communication Act of 1934, as amended.
    (f) Licensees of TV pickup, TV STL, TV relay, and TV translator 
relay stations may be authorized to operate one or more TV microwave 
booster stations for the purpose of relaying signals over a path that 
cannot be covered with a single station.

    Note: Applications for TV microwave booster stations will not be 
accepted for filing prior to January 1, 1985.

    (g) In case of permanent discontinuance of operation of a station 
licensed under this subpart, the licensee shall forward the station 
license to the Federal Communications Commission, Broadcast Auxiliary 
Radio Services, 1270 Fairfield Road, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania .

[28 17325 FR 13718 , Dec. 14, 1963, as amended at  44 FR 32382 , June 6, 1979;  47 FR 55937 , Dec. 14, 1982;  48 FR 9012 , Mar. 3, 1983;  48 FR 17092 , Apr. 21, 
1983;  48 FR 21486 , May 12, 1983;  49 FR 7130 , Feb. 27, 1984;  49 FR 10930 , 
Mar. 23, 1984;  52 FR 7142 , Mar. 9, 1987;  58 FR 19775 , Apr. 16, 1993]