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[CITE: 47USC318]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO
 
                       Part I--General Provisions
 
Sec. 318. Transmitting apparatus; operator's license

    The actual operation of all transmitting apparatus in any radio 
station for which a station license is required by this chapter shall be 
carried on only by a person holding an operator's license issued 
hereunder, and no person shall operate any such apparatus in such 
station except under and in accordance with an operator's license issued 
to him by the Commission: Provided, however, That the Commission if it 
shall find that the public interest, convenience, or necessity will be 
served thereby may waive or modify the foregoing provisions of this 
section for the operation of any station except (1) stations for which 
licensed operators are required by international agreement, (2) stations 
for which licensed operators are required for safety purposes, and (3) 
stations operated as common carriers on frequencies below thirty 
thousand kilocycles: Provided further, That the Commission shall have 
power to make special regulations governing the granting of licenses for 
the use of automatic radio devices and for the operation of such 
devices.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, Sec. 318, 48 Stat. 1089; Mar. 29, 
1937, ch. 58, 50 Stat. 56; Pub. L. 86-609, Sec. 1, July 7, 1960, 74 
Stat. 363; Pub. L. 94-335, July 1, 1976, 90 Stat. 794; Pub. L. 102-538, 
title II, Sec. 205, Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3543; Pub. L. 103-414, 
title III, Sec. 303(d), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4296.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-414 made technical amendments to directory 
language of Pub. L. 102-538, Sec. 205(1). See 1992 Amendment note below.
    1992--Pub. L. 102-538, Sec. 205(2), redesignated cl. (4) as (3).
    Pub. L. 102-538, Sec. 205(1), as amended by Pub. L. 103-414, struck 
out cl. (3) which read as follows: ``stations engaged in broadcasting 
(other than those engaged primarily in the function of rebroadcasting 
the signals of broadcast stations),''.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-335 substituted ``engaged primarily in the function 
of rebroadcasting the signals of broadcast stations'' for ``engaged 
solely in the function of rebroadcasting the signals of television 
broadcast stations'' in parenthetical provisions of cl. (3).
    1960--Pub. L. 86-609 inserted ``(other than those engaged solely in 
the function of rebroadcasting the signals of television broadcast 
stations)'' after ``engaged in broadcasting''.
    1937--Act Mar. 29, 1937, inserted provisos.


                            Cross References

    Radiotelegraph operators licensed as ship's officers, see section 
7101 et seq. of Title 46, Shipping.
