Sec.  97.509   Administering VE requirements.

   (a) Each examination for an amateur operator license must be administered by
   a team of at least 3 VEs at an examination session coordinated by a VEC.
   Before the session, the administering VEs or the VE session manager must
   ensure that a public announcement is made giving the location and time of
   the session. The number of examinees at the session may be limited.

   (b) Each administering VE must:

   (1) Be accredited by the coordinating VEC;

   (2) Be at least 18 years of age;

   (3) Be a person who holds an amateur operator license of the class specified
   below:

   (i) Amateur Extra, Advanced or General Class in order to administer a
   Technician Class operator license examination;

   (ii) Amateur Extra or Advanced Class in order to administer a General Class
   operator license examination;

   (iii) Amateur Extra Class in order to administer an Amateur Extra Class
   operator license examination.

   (4) Not be a person whose grant of an amateur station license or amateur
   operator license has ever been revoked or suspended.

   (c) Each administering VE must be present and observing the examinee
   throughout the entire examination. The administering VEs are responsible for
   the proper conduct and necessary supervision of each examination. The
   administering VEs must immediately terminate the examination upon failure of
   the examinee to comply with their instructions.

   (d) No VE may administer an examination to his or her spouse, children,
   grandchildren, stepchildren, parents, grandparents, stepparents, brothers,
   sisters, stepbrothers, stepsisters, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and
   in-laws.

   (e) No VE may administer or certify any examination by fraudulent means or
   for monetary or other consideration including reimbursement in any amount in
   excess of that permitted. Violation of this provision may result in the
   revocation of the grant of the VE's amateur station license and the
   suspension of the grant of the VE's amateur operator license.

   (f) No examination that has been compromised shall be administered to any
   examinee. Neither the same telegraphy message nor the same question set may
   be re-administered to the same examinee.

   (g) Passing a telegraphy receiving examination is adequate proof of an
   examinee's ability to both send and receive telegraphy. The administering
   VEs, however, may also include a sending segment in a telegraphy
   examination.

   (h) Upon completion of each examination element, the administering VEs must
   immediately grade the examinee's answers. The administering VEs are
   responsible for determining the correctness of the examinee's answers.

   (i) When the examinee is credited for all examination elements required for
   the operator license sought, 3 VEs must certify that the examinee is
   qualified for the license grant and that the VEs have complied with these
   administering VE requirements. The certifying VEs are jointly and
   individually accountable for the proper administration of each examination
   element reported. The certifying VEs may delegate to other qualified VEs
   their authority, but not their accountability, to administer individual
   elements of an examination.

   (j) When the examinee does not score a passing grade on an examination
   element, the administering VEs must return the application document to the
   examinee and inform the examinee of the grade.

   (k) The administering VEs must accommodate an examinee whose physical
   disabilities require a special examination procedure. The administering VEs
   may require a physician's certification indicating the nature of the
   disability before determining which, if any, special procedures must be
   used.

   (l) The administering VEs must issue a CSCE to an examinee who scores a
   passsing grade on an examination element.

   (m) Within 10 days of the administration of a successful examination for an
   amateur operator license, the administering VEs must submit the application
   document to the coordinating VEC.

   [ 59 FR 54834 , Nov. 2, 1994, as amended at  61 FR 9953 , Mar. 12, 1996;  62 FR 17567 , Apr. 10, 1997;  63 FR 68980 , Dec. 14, 1998;  65 FR 6551 , Feb. 10, 2000]