---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 101.7"
title: "47"
number: "101.7"
heading: "Eligibility for station license."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/101.7"
---

# §101.7. Eligibility for station license.

- (a) A station license may not be granted to or held by a foreign government or by a representative of a foreign government.
- (b) In the Common Carrier service, a station license may not be granted or held by:
  - (1) Any alien or the representative of any alien;
  - (2) Any corporation organized under the laws of any foreign government;
  - (3) **Any corporation of which more than one-fifth of the capital stock is owned of record or voted by—** Aliens or their representatives; a foreign government or representatives thereof; or any corporation organized under the laws of a foreign country; or
  - (4) Any corporation directly or indirectly controlled by any other corporation of which more than one-fourth of the capital stock is owned of record or voted by aliens or their representatives, or by a foreign government or representative thereof, or by any corporation organized under the laws of a foreign government, if the Commission finds that the public interest will be served by the refusal or revocation of such license.

## Notes

### Amendments

[61 FR 26677, May 28, 1996, as amended at 61 FR 55581, Oct. 28, 1996]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 26677, May 28, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[61 FR 26677, May 28, 1996, as amended at 61 FR 55581, Oct. 28, 1996]