Sec.  3.22   Number of accounting authority identification codes per applicant.

   (a) No entity will be entitled to or assigned more than one AAIC.

   (b) AAICs may not be reassigned, sold, bartered or transferred and do not
   convey upon sale or absorption of a company or firm without the express
   written approval of the Commission. Only the FCC may certify accounting
   authorities and assign U.S. AAICs for entities settling accounts of U.S.
   licensed  vessels in the maritime mobile and maritime mobile-satellite
   services.

   (c)  Accounting authorities who are “grandfathered” during the initial
   application period may retain their interim AAIC.