Radio annual (1941)

• • • Federal Communications Commission permit of ready reference. If the notice of violation relates to some lack of attention or improper operation of the transmitter, the name and license number of the operator in charge shall be given. Revocation and Modification oi Station Licenses Revocation. Whenever the Commission shall institute a revocation proceeding against the holder of any radio station construction permit or license under Section 312 (a), it shall initiate said proceeding by serving upon said licensee an order of revocation effective not less than fifteen days after written notice thereof is given the licensee. The order of revocation shall contain a statement of the grounds and reasons for such proposed revocation and a notice of the licensee's right to be heard by filing with the Commission a written request for hearing within fifteen days after receipt of said order. Upon the filing of such written request for hearing by said licensee the order of revocation shall stand suspended and the Commission will set a time and place for hearing and shall give the licensee and other interested parties notice thereof. If no request for hearing on any order of revocation is made by the licensee against whom such an order is directed within the time hereinabove set forth, the order of revocation shall become final and effective, without further action of the Commission. When any order of revocation has become final, the person whose license has been revoked shall forthwith deliver the station license in question to the inspector in charge of the district in which the licensee resides. Modification, (a) Order to show cause. Whenever the Commission shall determine that public interest, convenience, and necessity would be served, or any treaty ratified by the United States will be more fully complied with, by the modification of any radio station construction permit or license either for a limited time, or for the duration of the term thereof, it shall issue an order for such licensee to show cause why such construction permit or license should not be modified. (b) Contents of order to show cause. Such order to show cause shall contain a statement of the grounds and reasons for such proposed modification, and shall specify wherein the said construction permit or license is required to be modified. It shall require the licensee against whom it is directed, to be and appear at a place and time therein named, in no event to be less than thirty days from the date of receipt of the order to show cause why the proposed modification should not be made and the order of modification issued. (c) Failure to appear. If the licensee against whom the order to show cause is directed does not appear at the time and place provided in said order, a final order of modification shall issue forthwith. Suspension of Operator Licenses Order of suspension. No order of suspension of any operator's license shall take effect until fifteen days' notice in writing thereof, stating the cause for the proposed suspension, has been given to the operator licensee who may make written application to the Commission at any time within said fifteen days for a hearing upon such order. The notice to the operator licensee shall not be effective until actually received by him, and from that time he shall have fifteen days in which to mail the said application. In the event that physical conditions prevent mailing of the application at the expiration of the fifteen-day period, the application shall then be mailed as soon as possible thereafter, accompanied by a satisfactory explanation of the delay. Upon receipt by the Commission of such application for hearing, said order of suspension shall be held in abeyance until the conclusion of the hearing which shall be conducted under such rules as the Commission, shall deem appropriate. Upon the conclusion of said hearing the Commission may affirm, modify, or revoke said order of suspension. Proceedings. Proceedings for the suspension of an operator's license shall in all cases be initiated by the entry of an order of suspension. Respondent will be given notice thereof together with notice of his right to be heard and to contest the proceeding. The effective date of the suspension will not be specified in the original order but will be fixed by subsequent motion of the Commission in accordance with the conditions specified above. Notice of the effective date of suspension will be given respondent, who shall send his operator license to the office of the Commission in Washington, D. C , on or before the said effective date, or, if the effective date has passed at the time notice is received, the license shall be sent to the Commission forthwith. 235