---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 97.525"
title: "47"
number: "97.525"
heading: "Accrediting VEs."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/97.525"
---

# §97.525. Accrediting VEs.

- (a) No VEC may accredit a person as a VE if:
  - (1) The person does not meet minimum VE statutory qualifications or minimum qualifications as prescribed by this part;
  - (2) The FCC does not accept the voluntary and uncompensated services of the person;
  - (3) The VEC determines that the person is not competent to perform the VE functions; or
  - (4) The VEC determines that questions of the person's integrity or honesty could compromise the examinations.
- (b) Each VEC must seek a broad representation of amateur operators to be VEs. No VEC may discriminate in accrediting VEs on the basis of race, sex, religion or national origin; nor on the basis of membership (or lack thereof) in an amateur service organization; nor on the basis of the person accepting or declining to accept reimbursement.

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

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