Editorial Note on Part 97
Editorial Note: Nomenclature changes to part 97 appear at 63 FR 54077, Oct. 8, 1998.

§ 97.509 Administering VE requirements. ( a ) Each examination for an amateur operator license must be administered by a team of at least 3 VEs at an examination session coordinated by a VEC. The number of examinees at the session may be limited.
( b ) Each administering VE must: ( 1 ) Be accredited by the coordinating VEC;
( 2 ) Be at least 18 years of age;
( 3 ) Be a person who holds an amateur operator license of the class specified below: ( i ) Amateur Extra, Advanced or General Class in order to administer a Technician Class operator license examination;
( ii ) Amateur Extra or Advanced Class in order to administer a General Class operator license examination;
( iii ) Amateur Extra Class in order to administer an Amateur Extra Class operator license examination.
( 4 ) Not be a person whose grant of an amateur station license or amateur operator license has ever been revoked or suspended.
( c ) Each administering VE must observe the examinee throughout the entire examination. The administering VEs are responsible for the proper conduct and necessary supervision of each examination. The administering VEs must immediately terminate the examination upon failure of the examinee to comply with their instructions.
( d ) No VE may administer an examination to his or her spouse, children, grandchildren, stepchildren, parents, grandparents, stepparents, brothers, sisters, stepbrothers, stepsisters, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and in-laws.
( e ) No VE may administer or certify any examination by fraudulent means or for monetary or other consideration including reimbursement in any amount in excess of that permitted. Violation of this provision may result in the revocation of the grant of the VE's amateur station license and the suspension of the grant of the VE's amateur operator license.
( f ) No examination that has been compromised shall be administered to any examinee. The same question set may not be re-administered to the same examinee.
( g ) [Reserved]
( h ) Upon completion of each examination element, the administering VEs must immediately grade the examinee's answers. For examinations administered remotely, the administering VEs must grade the examinee's answers at the earliest practical opportunity. The administering VEs are responsible for determining the correctness of the examinee's answers.
( i ) When the examinee is credited for all examination elements required for the operator license sought, 3 VEs must certify that the examinee is qualified for the license grant and that the VEs have complied with these administering VE requirements. The certifying VEs are jointly and individually accountable for the proper administration of each examination element reported. The certifying VEs may delegate to other qualified VEs their authority, but not their accountability, to administer individual elements of an examination.
( j ) When the examinee does not score a passing grade on an examination element, the administering VEs must return the application document to the examinee and inform the examinee of the grade.
( k ) The administering VEs must accommodate an examinee whose physical disabilities require a special examination procedure. The administering VEs may require a physician's certification indicating the nature of the disability before determining which, if any, special procedures must be used.
( l ) The administering VEs must issue a CSCE to an examinee who scores a passing grade on an examination element.
( m ) After the administration of a successful examination for an amateur operator license, the administering VEs must submit the application document to the coordinating VEC according to the coordinating VEC's instructions.
[59 FR 54834, Nov. 2, 1994, as amended at 61 FR 9953, Mar. 12, 1996; 62 FR 17567, Apr. 10, 1997; 63 FR 68980, Dec. 14, 1998; 65 FR 6551, Feb. 10, 2000; 71 FR 66465, Nov. 15, 2006; 79 FR 35291. June 20, 2014]