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 73d C ONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 652. JUNE 19, 1934. mission may impose, without such formal application. Such licenses, however, shall in no case be for a longer term than three months : Provided further, That the Commission may issue by cable, telegraph, or radio a permit for the operation of a station on a vessel of the United States at sea, effective in lieu of a license until said vessel shall return to a port of the continental United States. (b) All such applications shall set forth such facts as the Com- mission by regulation may prescribe as to the citizenship, character, and financial, technical, and other qualifications of the applicant to operate the station ; the ownership and location of the proposed station and of the stations, if any, with which it is proposed to communicate ; the frequencies and the power desired to be used ; the hours of the day or other periods of time during which it is propose d to o perate the s tation ; the purpos es for which the s tation is to be used ; and such other information as it may require. The Commission, at any time after the filing of such original applica- tion and during the term of any such license, may require from an applicant or licensee further written statements of fact to enable it to determine whether such original application should be granted or denied or such license revoked. Such application and/or such statement of fact shall be signed by the applicant and/or licensee under o ath or affir mation. (c) The Commi ssion in gra nting any li cense f or a s tation inten ded or used for commercial communication between the United States or any Ter ritory or po ssessi on, co ntinen tal or insula r, sub ject t o the jurisdiction of the United States, and any foreign country, may impose any terms, conditions, or restrictions authorized to be imposed with respect to submarine-cable licenses by section 2 of an Act entitled "An Act relating to the landing and the operation of submarine cables in the United States ", approved May 24, 1921. HEARINGS ON APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSES ; FORM OF LICENSES ; CON- DITIONS AT TAC HED TO LICENSES SEC. 309. (a) If upon examination of any application for a station license or fo r the renewa l or m odific ation o f a st ation licens e the Commi ssion shal l de termi ne th at p ublic inte rest, con venie nce, or necessity would be served by the granting thereof, it shall authorize the issuance, renewal, or modification thereof in accordance with said finding. In the event the Commission upon examination of any such application does not reach such decision with respect thereto, it shall notify the applicant thereof, shall fix and give notice of a time and place for hearing thereon, and shall afford such applicant an opportunity to be heard under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe. (b) Such station licenses as the Commission may grant shall be in such general form as it may prescribe, but each license shall contain, in addition to other provisions, a statement of the following condi- tions to which such license shall be subject : (1) The station license shall not vest in the licensee any right to operate the station nor any right in the use of the frequencies designated in the license beyond the term thereof nor in any other manner than authorized therein. (2) Ne ither the li cense nor th e righ t grant ed the reunde r shal l be assign ed or otherw ise tr ansfer red in violat ion of this Act. (3) Ev ery li cense issued under this Act sha ll be subjec t in t erms to the right of use or control conferred by section 606 hereof. Term of. Issue of. 1085 I nform ation in a ppli- cations. License for foreign communication. Terms, conditions, ete., in. Vol. 42, p. 8. Examination of ap. plication. Hearing if decision of Commission adverse. Form of license. Conditions.