47 C.F.R. § 97.1

Basis and purpose

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The rules and regulations in this part are designed to provide an amateur radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles:

(a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications.

(b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art.

(c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of the art.

(d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts.

(e) Continuation and extension of the amateur's unique ability to enhance international goodwill.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1985–2011 · leading case: Charles M. Guschke v. City of Oklahoma City, 763 F.2d 379 (10th Cir. 1985).
Charles M. Guschke v. City of Oklahoma City, 763 F.2d 379 (10th Cir. 1985). “47 C.F.R. § 97.1 . Plaintiff looks to these genera] statements providing for centralized control of radio communications by the FCC and encouragement of radio use as evidence of federal preemption of state zoning height limits as applied to radio towers.”
Vernon Howard, Cross-Appellant v. City of Burlingame, Cross-Appellee, 937 F.2d 1376 (9th Cir. 1991). “regulations proffered by Howard, 47 C.F.R. § 97.1 et seq., do not help his case.”
Still v. Michaels, 803 P.2d 124 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1990). “See 47 CFR §§ 97.1 et seq. The Stills live next door to the Michaels and have experienced, among other disruptions, radio and television reception interference due to the radio transmissions made by the Michaels.”
People v. Raffa, 31 Misc. 3d 8 (N.Y. App. Term. 2011). “People v Bozak, 29 Misc 3d 711 [Troy City Ct 2010]), which may function as “voluntary noncommercial communication service[s]” (47 CFR 97.1 [a]). If, as the People contend, amateur radios may be connected to public switched telephone networks, they failed to prove that…”
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