47 C.F.R. § 80.15

Eligibility for station license

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(a) General. A station license cannot be granted to or held by a foreign government or its representative.

(b) Public coast stations and Alaska-public fixed stations. A station license for a public coast station or an Alaska-public fixed station cannot be granted to or held by:

(1) Any alien or the representative of any alien;

(2) [Reserved]

(3) Any corporation organized under the laws of any foreign government;

(4) Any corporation of which more than one-fifth of the capital stock is owned of record or voted by aliens or their representatives or by a foreign government or its representative, or by a corporation organized under the laws of a foreign country; or

(5) 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, their representatives, or by a foreign government or its representatives, or by any corporation organized under the laws of a foreign country, if the Commission finds that the public interest will be served by the refusal or revocation of such license.

(c) Private coast and marine utility stations. The supplemental eligibility requirements for private coast and marine utility stations are contained in § 80.501(a).

(d) Ship stations. A ship station license may only be granted to:

(1) The owner or operator of the vessel;

(2) A subsidiary communications corporation of the owner or operator of the vessel;

(3) A State or local government subdivision; or

(e) A 406.0-406.1 MHz EPIRB may be used by any ship required by U.S. Coast Guard regulations to carry an EPIRB or by any ship that is equipped with a VHF ship radio station.

[51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 53 FR 37308, Sept. 26, 1988; 58 FR 33344, June 17, 1993; 61 FR 55581, Oct. 28, 1996; 68 FR 46960, Aug. 7, 2003; 69 FR 64671, Nov. 8, 2004; 73 FR 4480, Jan. 25, 2008; 76 FR 67610, Nov. 2, 2011; 90 FR 57707, Dec. 12, 2025]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1988–1988 · leading case: Lexington Ins. Co. v. Cooke's Seafood, Snooper Fleet, Inc., 835 F.2d 1364 (11th Cir. 1988).

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Lexington Ins. Co. v. Cooke's Seafood, Snooper Fleet, Inc., 835 F.2d 1364 (11th Cir. 1988). “Although Snooper argues that the C-JACK "may well have been" outside the range of marine VHF distress coverage, see 47 C.F.R. § 80.15 (e)(2)(ii) (1986), Hogan did not testify that he tried and failed to reach the Coast Guard by radio, or that he considered such an attempt to be…”

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