47 U.S.C. § 308 : US Code - Section 308: Requirements for license

Search 47 U.S.C. § 308 : US Code - Section 308: Requirements for license

(a) Writing; exceptions
The Commission may grant construction permits and station
licenses, or modifications or renewals thereof, only upon written
application therefor received by it: Provided, That (1) in cases of
emergency found by the Commission involving danger to life or
property or due to damage to equipment, or (2) during a national
emergency proclaimed by the President or declared by the Congress
and during the continuance of any war in which the United States is
engaged and when such action is necessary for the national defense
or security or otherwise in furtherance of the war effort, or (3)
in cases of emergency where the Commission finds, in the
nonbroadcast services, that it would not be feasible to secure
renewal applications from existing licensees or otherwise to follow
normal licensing procedure, the Commission may grant construction
permits and station licenses, or modifications or renewals thereof,
during the emergency so found by the Commission or during the
continuance of any such national emergency or war, in such manner
and upon such terms and conditions as the Commission shall by
regulation prescribe, and without the filing of a formal
application, but no authorization so granted shall continue in
effect beyond the period of the emergency or war requiring it:
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) Conditions
All applications for station licenses, or modifications or
renewals thereof, shall set forth such facts as the Commission 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
proposed to operate the station; the purposes for which the station
is to be used; and such other information as it may require. The
Commission, at any time after the filing of such original
application 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 in any manner or form, including by electronic means, as
the Commission may prescribe by regulation.
(c) Commercial communication
The Commission in granting any license for a station intended or
used for commercial communication between the United States or any
Territory or possession, continental or insular, subject to 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 35 of
this title.
(d) Summary of complaints
Each applicant for the renewal of a commercial or noncommercial
television license shall attach as an exhibit to the application a
summary of written comments and suggestions received from the
public and maintained by the licensee (in accordance with
Commission regulations) that comment on the applicant's
programming, if any, and that are characterized by the commentor as
constituting violent programming.