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PUBLIC LAW 93-505-NOV. 30, 1974

[88 STAT.

Public Law 93-505 November 30, 1974 [S. 2457]

Amateur radio operators, a l i e n s. Operation in U.S.

47 USC 3 0 1.

Bilateral agreement. 5 USC note p r e c. 551.

License restrictions.

AN ACT To amend the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, to permit the Federal Communications Commission to grant radio station licenses in the safety and special and experimental radio services directly to aliens, representatives of aliens, foreign corporations, or domestic corporations with alien officers, directors, or stockholders; and to permit aliens holding such radio station licenses to be licensed as operators.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaiwes of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That subsection (1) of section 303 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (47 U.S.C. 303(1)), is amended by deleting paragraphs (2) and (3) and inserting the following: "(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of this subsection, an individual to whom a radio station is licensed under the provisions of this Act may be issued an operator's license to operate that station. " (3) In addition to amateur operator licenses which the Commission may issue to aliens pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection, and notwithstanding section 301 of this Act and paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Commission may issue authorizations, under such conditions and terms as it may prescribe, to permit an alien licensed by his government as an amateur radio operator to operate his amateur radio station licensed by his government in the United States, its possessions, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico provided there is in effect a bilateral agreement between the United States and the alien's government for such operation on a reciprocal basis by United States amateur radio operators. Other provisions of this Act and of the Administrative Procedure Act shall not be applicable to any request or application for or modification, suspension, or cancellation of any such authorization." SEC. 2. Section 310 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (47 U.S.C. 310), is amended by deleting subsection (a), redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (d) and inserting the following new subsections (a), (b),and (c): " (a) The station license required under this Act shall not be granted to or held by any foreign government or the representative thereof. "(b) No broadcast or common carrier or aeronautical en route or aeronautical fixed radio station license shall be granted to or held by— "(1) any alien or the representative of any alien; "(2) any corporation organized under the laws of any foreign government; "(3) any corporation of which any officer or director is an alien or of which more than one-fifth of the capital stock is owned of record or voted by aliens or their representatives or by a foreign government or representative thereof or by any corporation organized under the laws of a foreign country; "(4) any corporation directly or indirectly controlled by any other corporation of which any officer or more than one-fourth of the directors are aliens, or of which more than one-fourth of the capital stock is owned of record or voted by aliens, their representatives, or by a foreign government or representative thereof, or by any corporation organized under the laws of a foreign country, if the Commission finds that the public interest will be served by the refusal or revocation of such license.

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