Sec.  97.9   Operator license grant.

   (a) The classes of amateur operator license grants are: Novice, Technician,
   Technician Plus (until such licenses expire, a Technical Class license
   granted before February 14, 1991, is considered a Technician Plus Class
   license), General, Advanced, and Amateur Extra. The person named in the
   operator  license grant is authorized to be the control operator of an
   amateur  station  with the privileges authorized to the operator class
   specified on the license grant.

   (b) The person named in an operator license grant of Novice, Technician,
   Technician Plus, General or Advanced Class, who has properly submitted to
   the administering VEs a FCC Form 605 document requesting examination for an
   operator license grant of a higher class, and who holds a CSCE indicating
   that the person has completed the necessary examinations within the previous
   365 days, is authorized to exercise the rights and privileges of the higher
   operator class until final disposition of the application or until 365 days
   following the passing of the examination, whichever comes first.

   [ 63 FR 68978 , Dec. 14, 1998, as amended at  65 FR 6549 , Feb. 10, 2000]