Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
November 30, 2009
DA 09-2511
Robert F. Davis
Director and Agent
Board of Health
43 South Washington Street
North Attleboro, MA  02760-1688
Dear Mr. Davis:   
This letter grants your request, dated November 12, 2009, on behalf of the Town of North 
Attleboro and its Board of Health (the Town) for a waiver to permit an Amateur Radio Service licensee 
who is an employee of the Town to transmit communications on behalf of his employer during an 
upcoming government emergency drill.  
In your request, you state that the Town will be holding an Emergency Dispensing 
Site (EDS) training exercise in conjunction with its annual distribution of available flu vaccine to 
residents.  The exercise is scheduled for December 12, 2009, but may be rescheduled to December 19, 
2009 if the flu vaccine is not available on December 12.  You state that the EDS exercise will test the 
Town’s procedures for implementing an emergency inoculation of the Town’s population.  The drill will 
be held in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Section 97.113(a)(3) of the Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 97.113(a)(3), prohibits amateur 
licensees from transmitting communications in which they have a pecuniary interest, including 
communications on behalf of an employer.  You therefore request a waiver of this rule to permit the Peter 
Lamb, N1NVE, who is a Town employee, to transmit communications on behalf of the Town in 
connection with the exercise.  He will communicate with other (volunteer) amateur licensees to 
coordinate the exercise.
Section 1.3 of the Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.3, provides that the Commission may 
waive its rules if good cause for waiver is shown.  We conclude that grant of the waiver request is 
appropriate under the circumstances presented.  The public interest in facilitating the December 12 (or 19) 
public safety exercise by permitting the specified amateur licensees to participate warrants this limited 
waiver of Section 97.113(a)(3).  This waiver grant permits transmission of communications by the above-
listed amateur employee on behalf of his employer during the December 12 (or 19), 2009, exercise, and 
immediately prior to the exercise for the purpose of operational testing of equipment.
Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that the waiver request of the Town of North Attleboro and its 
Board of Health, dated November 12, 2009, IS GRANTED.
This action is taken under delegated authority pursuant to Sections 0.131 and 0.331 of the 
Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. §§ 0.131, 0.331.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Scot Stone
Deputy Chief, Mobility Division
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau