---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 107.15"
title: "14"
number: "107.15"
heading: "Condition for safe operation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/107.15"
---

# §107.15. Condition for safe operation.

- (a) No person may operate a civil small unmanned aircraft system unless it is in a condition for safe operation. Prior to each flight, the remote pilot in command must check the small unmanned aircraft system to determine whether it is in a condition for safe operation.
- (b) No person may continue flight of the small unmanned aircraft when he or she knows or has reason to know that the small unmanned aircraft system is no longer in a condition for safe operation.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40101 note, 40103(b), 44701(a)(5), 46105(c), 46110, 44807.

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-2015-0150, Amdt. 107-1, 81 FR 42209, June 28, 2016, unless otherwise noted.