---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 97.31"
title: "47"
number: "97.31"
heading: "Cancellation on account of the licensee's death."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/97.31"
---

# §97.31. Cancellation on account of the licensee's death.

- (a) A person may request cancellation of an operator/primary station license grant on account of the licensee's death by submitting a signed request that includes a death certificate, obituary, or Social Security Death Index data that shows the person named in the operator/primary station license grant has died. Such a request may be submitted as a pleading associated with the deceased licensee's license. See [§ 1.45](/cfr/47/1.45.md) of this chapter. In addition, the Commission may cancel an operator/primary station license grant if it becomes aware of the grantee's death through other means. No action will be taken during the last thirty days of the post-expiration grace period (see [§ 97.21(b)](/cfr/47/97.21.md?p=b)) on a request to cancel a license due to the licensee's death.
- (b) A license that is canceled due to the licensee's death is canceled as of the date of the licensee's death.

## Notes

### Amendments

[75 FR 78171, Dec. 15, 2010]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151-155, 301-609, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 54 FR 25857, June 20, 1989, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[75 FR 78171, Dec. 15, 2010]