Sec. 97.19  Application for a vanity call sign.

    (a) A person who has been granted an operator/primary station 
license or a license trustee who has been granted a club station license 
is eligible to make application for modification of the license, or the 
renewal thereof, to show a call sign selected by the vanity call sign 
system. RACES and military recreation stations are not eligible for a 
vanity call sign.
    (b) Each application for a modification of an operator/primary or 
club station license, or the renewal thereof, to show a call sign 
selected by the vanity call sign system must be made on FCC Form 610-V. 
The form must be submitted with the appropriate fee to the address 
specified in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Fee Filing Guide.
    (c) Only unassigned call signs that are available to the sequential 
call sign system are available to the vanity call sign system with the 
following exceptions:
    (1) A call sign shown on an expired license is not available to the 
vanity call sign system for 2 years following the expiration of the 
license.
    (2) A call sign shown on a surrendered, revoked, set aside, 
cancelled, or voided license is not available to the vanity call sign 
system for 2 years following the date such action is taken.
    (3) Except for an applicant who is the spouse, child, grandchild, 
stepchild, parent, grandparent, stepparent, brother, sister, 
stepbrother, stepsister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, or in-law, and 
except for an applicant who is a club station license trustee acting 
with the written consent of at least one relative, as listed above, of a 
person now deceased, the call sign shown on the license of a person now 
deceased is not available to the vanity call sign system for 2 years 
following the person's death, or for 2 years following the expiration of 
the license, whichever is sooner.
    (d) The vanity call sign requested by an applicant must be selected 
from the group of call signs corresponding to the same or lower class of 
operator license held by the applicant as designated in the sequential 
call sign system.
    (1) The applicant must request that the call sign shown on the 
current license be vacated and provide a list of up to 25 call signs in 
order of preference.
    (2) The first assignable call sign from the applicant's list will be 
shown on the license grant. When none of those call signs are 
assignable, the call sign vacated by the applicant will be shown on the 
license grant.
    (3) Vanity call signs will be selected from those call signs 
assignable at the time the application is processed by the FCC.
    (4) A call sign designated under the sequential call sign system for 
Alaska, Hawaii, Caribbean Insular Areas, and Pacific Insular areas will 
be assigned only to a primary or club station whose licensee's mailing 
address is in the corresponding state, commonwealth, or island. This 
limitation does not apply to an applicant for the call sign as the 
spouse, child, grandchild, stepchild, parent, grandparent, stepparent, 
brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, or 
in-law, of the former holder now deceased.
[ 60 FR 7460 , Feb. 8, 1995, as amended at  60 FR 50123 , Sept. 28, 1995;  60 FR 53132 , Oct. 12, 1995]

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