---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 68.211"
title: "47"
number: "68.211"
heading: "Terminal equipment approval revocation procedures."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/68.211"
---

# §68.211. Terminal equipment approval revocation procedures.

- (a) **Causes for revocation.** The Commission may revoke the interconnection authorization of terminal equipment, whether that authorization was acquired through certification by a Telecommunications Certification Body or through the Supplier's Declaration of Conformity process in [§§ 68.320 through 68.350](/cfr/47/68.320..68.350.md) of this part, where:
  - (1) The equipment approval is shown to have been obtained by misrepresentation;
  - (2) The approved equipment is shown to cause harms to the public switched telephone network, as defined in [§ 68.3](/cfr/47/68.3.md);
  - (3) The responsible party willfully or repeatedly fails to comply with the terms and conditions of its equipment approval; or
  - (4) The responsible party willfully or repeatedly fails to comply with any rule, regulation or order issued by the Commission under the Communications Act of 1934 relating to terminal equipment.
- (b) **Notice of intent to revoke interconnection authority.** Before revoking interconnection authority under the provisions of this section, the Commission, or the Enforcement Bureau under delegated authority, will issue a written Notice of Intent to Revoke [Part 68](/cfr/47/part68.md) Interconnection Authority, or a Joint Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture and Notice of Intent to Revoke [Part 68](/cfr/47/part68.md) Interconnection Authority pursuant to §§ [1.80](/cfr/47/1.80.md) and [1.89](/cfr/47/1.89.md) of this chapter.
- (c) **Delivery.** The notice will be sent via certified mail to the responsible party for the terminal equipment at issue at the address provided to the Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments.
- (d) **Reauthorization.** A product that has had its approval revoked may not be authorized for connection to the public switched telephone network for a period of six months from the date of revocation of the approval.
- (e) **Reconsideration or appeal.** A responsible party of terminal equipment that has had its authorization revoked and/or that has been assessed a forfeiture may request reconsideration or make administrative appeal of the decision pursuant to [part 1](/cfr/47/part1.md) of the Commission's rules: Practice and Procedure, [part 1](/cfr/47/part1.md) of this chapter.

## Notes

### Amendments

[66 FR 7583, Jan. 24, 2001, as amended at 67 FR 13229, Mar. 21, 2002; 68 FR 13850, Mar. 21, 2003]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 610.

### Amendments

[66 FR 7583, Jan. 24, 2001, as amended at 67 FR 13229, Mar. 21, 2002; 68 FR 13850, Mar. 21, 2003]