---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 13.211"
title: "47"
number: "13.211"
heading: "Commercial radio operator license examination."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/13.211"
---

# §13.211. Commercial radio operator license examination.

- (a) Each session where an examination for a commercial radio operator license is administered must be managed by a COLEM or the FCC.
- (b) Each examination for a commercial radio operator license must be administered as determined by the COLEM.
- (c) The COLEM may limit the number of candidates at any examination.
- (d) The COLEM may prohibit from the examination area items the COLEM determines could compromise the integrity of an examination or distract examinees.
- (e) Within 3 business days of completion of the examination Element(s), the COLEM must provide the results of the examination to the examinee and the COLEM must issue a PPC to an examinee who scores a passing grade on an examination Element.
- (f) **A PPC is valid for 365 days from the date it is issued.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[58 FR 9124, Feb. 19, 1993, as amended at 78 FR 23154, Apr. 18, 2013]

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 58 FR 9124, Feb. 19, 1993, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[58 FR 9124, Feb. 19, 1993, as amended at 78 FR 23154, Apr. 18, 2013]