Sec. 95.179  Individuals who may be station operators.

    (a) An individual GMRS system licensee may permit immediate family 
members to be station operators in his or her GMRS system. Immediate 
family members are the:
    (1) Licensee;
    (2) Licensee's spouse;
    (3) Licensee's children, grandchildren, stepchildren;
    (4) Licensee's parents, grandparents, stepparents;
    (5) Licensee's brothers, sisters;
    (6) Licensee's aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews; and
    (7) Licensee's in-laws.
    (b) Only the following persons may be permitted to operate under the 
authority of a GMRS system licensed to a non-individual:

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                                            These persons may be station
    (1) If the GMRS system licensee is:              operators:
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(i) A partnership.........................  Licensee's partners and
                                             employees.
(ii) A corporation........................  Licensee's officers,
                                             directors, members and
                                             employees.
(iii) An association......................  Licensee's members and
                                             employees.
(iv) A governmental unit..................  Licensee's employees.
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    (2) These persons may only communicate messages about the licensee's 
business activities. Employees of the licensee may communicate messages 
while acting within the scope of their employment, and only about the 
licensee's business activities.
    (c) The licensee may permit a telephone answering service employee 
to be a station operator if:
    (1) That employee only communicates messages received for the 
licensee to the licensee;
    (2) The station equipment at the telephone answering point is not 
shared in any other GMRS system; and
    (3) The station at the telephone answering service point is not 
interconnected to the public switched telephone network.
    (d) The station operator of a GMRS system licensed to an individual 
may be a station operator in any other GMRS system if he/she has 
permission from the licensee of the other GMRS system.
    (e) The provisions of Sec. 95.33 regarding cooperative use do not 
apply to or govern the authority of a GMRS licensee to designate station 
operators in accordance with the provisions of this section.

[ 48 FR 35237 , Aug. 3, 1983, as amended at  53 FR 47717 , Nov. 25, 1988;  53 FR 51625 , Dec. 22, 1988;  63 FR 68976 , Dec. 14, 1998]