Sec.  90.609   Special limitations on amendment of applications for assignment or
transfer of authorizations for radio systems above 800 MHz.

   (a) [Reserved]

   (b) A license to operate a conventional or trunked radio system may not be
   assigned or transferred prior to the completion of construction of the
   facility. However, the Commission may give its consent to the assignment or
   transfer of control of such a license prior to the completion of
   construction where:

   (1) The assignment or transfer does not involve a substantial change in
   ownership or control of the authorized radio facilities; or,

   (2) The assignment or transfer is involuntary due to the licensee's
   insolvency, bankruptcy, incapacity, or death.

   (c) Licensees of constructed systems in any category are permitted to make
   partial assignments of an authorized grant to an applicant proposing to
   create a new system or to an existing licensee that has loaded its system to
   70 mobiles per channel and is expanding that system. An applicant authorized
   to expand an existing system or to create a new system with frequencies from
   any category obtained through partial assignment will receive the assignor's
   existing license expiration date and loading deadline for the frequencies
   that are assigned. A licensee that makes a partial assignment of a station's
   frequencies will not be authorized to obtain additional frequencies for that
   station for a period of one year from the date of the partial assignment.

   (d) A constructed system originally licensed in the General Category that is
   authorized to operate in the conventional mode may be combined with an
   existing SMR system above 800 MHz authorized to operate in the trunked mode
   by assignment of an authorized grant of the General Category station to the
   SMR station.

   [ 47 FR 41032 , Sep. 16, 1982, as amended at  55 FR 28029 , July 9, 1990;  58 FR 44962 , Aug. 25, 1993;  61 FR 6155 , Feb. 16, 1996;  63 FR 68967 , Dec. 14, 1998;
    69 FR 67838 , Nov. 22, 2004]

Policies Governing the Processing of Applications and the Selection and
Assignment of Frequencies for Use in the 806–824 MHz, 851–869 MHz, 896–901 MHz,
and 935–940 MHz Bands