§ 1.1157   Payment of charges for regulatory fees.

   Payment of a regulatory fee, required under § § 1.1152 through 1.1156, shall
   be filed in the following manner:

   (a)(1)  The  amount of the regulatory fee payment that is due with any
   application for authorization shall be the multiple of the number of years
   in  the  entire  term  of the requested license or other authorization
   multiplied by the annual fee payment required in the Schedule of Regulatory
   Fees, effective at the time the application is filed. Except as set forth in
   § 1.1160, advance payments shall be final and shall not be readjusted during
   the term of the license or authorization, notwithstanding any subsequent
   increase  or decrease in the annual amount of a fee required under the
   Schedule of Regulatory Fees.

   (2) Failure to file the appropriate regulatory fee due with an application
   for authorization will result in the return of the accompanying application,
   including an application for which the Commission has assigned a specific
   filing deadline.

   (b)(1) Payments of standard regulatory fees applicable to certain wireless
   radio, mass media, common carrier, cable and international services shall be
   filed in full on an annual basis at a time announced by the Commission or
   the Managing Director, pursuant to delegated authority, and published in the
   Federal Register.

   (2) Large regulatory fees, as annually defined by the Commission, may be
   submitted in installment payments or in a single payment on a date certain
   as  announced  by the Commission or the Managing Director, pursuant to
   delegated authority, and published in the Federal Register.

   (c) Standard regulatory fee payments, as well as any installment payment,
   must be filed with a FCC Form 159, FCC Remittance Advice, and a FCC Form
   159C, Remittance Advice Continuation Sheet, if additional space is needed.
   Failure to submit a copy of FCC Form 159 with a standard regulatory fee
   payment,  or  an installment payment, will result in the return of the
   submission and a 25 percent penalty if the payment is resubmitted after the
   date the Commission establishes for the payment of standard regulatory fees
   and for any installment payment.

   (1) Any late filed regulatory fee payment will be subject to the penalties
   set forth in section 1.1164.

   (2)  If one or more installment payments are untimely submitted or not
   submitted  at  all, the eligibility of the subject regulatee to submit
   installment payments may be cancelled.

   (d) Any Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS) licensee subject to payment
   of an annual regulatory fee shall retain for a period of two (2) years from
   the date on which the regulatory fee is paid, those business records which
   were used to calculate the amount of the regulatory fee.

   [ 60 FR 34031 , June 29, 1995, as amended at  62 FR 59825 , Nov. 5, 1997;  67 FR 46306 , July 12, 2002]

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