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FCC Regulations - Part 97 Amateur Radio Service
[Effective Oct 1, 2006.]
Subpart F Qualifying Examination Systems
Sec. 97.509 Administering VE requirements.
(a) Each examination for an amateur operator license must be
administered by a team of at least 3 VEs at an examination session
coordinated by a VEC. Before the session, the administering VEs or the
VE session manager must ensure that a public announcement is made giving
the location and time of the session. The number of examinees at the
session may be limited.
(b) Each administering VE must:
(1) Be accredited by the coordinating VEC;
(2) Be at least 18 years of age;
(3) Be a person who holds an amateur operator license of the class
specified below:
(i) Amateur Extra, Advanced or General Class in order to administer
a
Technician Class operator license examination;
(ii) Amateur Extra or Advanced Class in order to administer a
General Class operator license examination;
(iii) Amateur Extra Class in order to administer an Amateur Extra
Class operator license examination.
(4) Not be a person whose grant of an amateur station license or
amateur operator license has ever been revoked or suspended.
(c) Each administering VE must be present and observing the examinee
throughout the entire examination. The administering VEs are responsible
for the proper conduct and necessary supervision of each examination.
The administering VEs must immediately terminate the examination upon
failure of the examinee to comply with their instructions.
(d) No VE may administer an examination to his or her spouse,
children, grandchildren, stepchildren, parents, grandparents,
stepparents, brothers, sisters, stepbrothers, stepsisters, aunts,
uncles, nieces, nephews, and in-laws.
(e) No VE may administer or certify any examination by fraudulent
means or for monetary or other consideration including reimbursement in
any amount in excess of that permitted. Violation of this provision may
result in the revocation of the grant of the VE's amateur station
license and the suspension of the grant of the VE's amateur operator
license.
(f) No examination that has been compromised shall be administered
to any examinee. Neither the same telegraphy message nor the same
question set may be re-administered to the same examinee.
(g) Passing a telegraphy receiving examination is adequate proof of
an examinee's ability to both send and receive telegraphy. The
administering VEs, however, may also include a sending segment in a
telegraphy examination.
(h) Upon completion of each examination element, the administering
VEs must immediately grade the examinee's answers. The administering VEs
are responsible for determining the correctness of the examinee's
answers.
(i) When the examinee is credited for all examination elements
required for the operator license sought, 3 VEs must certify that the
examinee is qualified for the license grant and that the VEs have
complied with these administering VE requirements. The certifying VEs
are jointly and individually accountable for the proper administration
of each examination element reported. The certifying VEs may delegate to
other qualified VEs their authority, but not their accountability, to
administer individual elements of an examination.
(j) When the examinee does not score a passing grade on an
examination element, the administering VEs must return the application
document to the examinee and inform the examinee of the grade.
(k) The administering VEs must accommodate an examinee whose
physical disabilities require a special examination procedure. The
administering VEs may require a physician's certification indicating the
nature of the disability before determining which, if any, special
procedures must be used.
(l) The administering VEs must issue a CSCE to an examinee who
scores a passsing grade on an examination element.
(m) Within 10 days of the administration of a successful examination
for an amateur operator license, the administering VEs must submit the
application document to the coordinating VEC.
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