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]