[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 5, Parts 80 to End]
[Revised as of October 1, 1999]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR95.179]

[Page 519-520]

                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

PART 95--PERSONAL RADIO SERVICES--Table of Contents

             Subpart A--General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS)

Sec. 95.179  Individuals who may be station operators.

    (a) An individual GMRS system licensee may permit immediate family
members to be station operators in his or her GMRS system. Immediate
family members are the:
    (1) Licensee;
    (2) Licensee's spouse;
    (3) Licensee's children, grandchildren, stepchildren;
    (4) Licensee's parents, grandparents, stepparents;
    (5) Licensee's brothers, sisters;
    (6) Licensee's aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews; and
    (7) Licensee's in-laws.
    (b) Only the following persons may be permitted to operate under the
authority of a GMRS system licensed to a non-individual:

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                                            These persons may be station
    (1) If the GMRS system licensee is:              operators:
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(i) A partnership.........................  Licensee's partners and
                                             employees.
(ii) A corporation........................  Licensee's officers,
                                             directors, members and
                                             employees.
(iii) An association......................  Licensee's members and
                                             employees.
(iv) A governmental unit..................  Licensee's employees.
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    (2) These persons may only communicate messages about the licensee's
business activities. Employees of the licensee may communicate messages
while acting within the scope of their employment, and only about the
licensee's business activities.
    (c) The licensee may permit a telephone answering service employee
to be a station operator if:

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    (1) That employee only communicates messages received for the
licensee to the licensee;
    (2) The station equipment at the telephone answering point is not
shared in any other GMRS system; and
    (3) The station at the telephone answering service point is not
interconnected to the public switched telephone network.
    (d) The station operator of a GMRS system licensed to an individual
may be a station operator in any other GMRS system if he/she has
permission from the licensee of the other GMRS system.
    (e) The provisions of Sec. 95.33 regarding cooperative use do not
apply to or govern the authority of a GMRS licensee to designate station
operators in accordance with the provisions of this section.

[48 FR 35237, Aug. 3, 1983, as amended at 53 FR 47717, Nov. 25, 1988; 53
FR 51625, Dec. 22, 1988; 63 FR 68976, Dec. 14, 1998]