The reason for tower registration by the tower owner is to have someone responsible for the vertical real estate.
A fine was imposed on Motorola due to a dark tower a year or so after a Hurricane Andrew destroyed Southern Florida. Motorola attempted to push the fine off on the tenants. The FCC said no (Motorola's under the table insurance policy had expired), that Motorola was responsible for the tower. Motorola shortly after this sold all (or at least most) of their vertical real estate and the FAA/FCC started the tower registration program. All lighted towers are required to be registered. The registration names the entity that owns the structure and who is solely responsible for the proper maintenance of the tower markings. Until towers were registered, a crafty lawyer could divert the fine from the owner to the tenant. At least this is how it was when I was working with tower site monitoring. 73 Glenn WB4UIV At 07:27 PM 06/16/07, you wrote: >While this is true, ANYONE at the site can be fined for non-compliance - >even a ham radio group who is prohibited from climbing the tower or >making repairs. It doesn't matter who owns the tower anymore. It used to >be that only the tower owner was responsible. Now, everyone at the site >is. > >Joe M. > >Glenn Little WB4UIV wrote: > > > > If so the tower owner must ensure that the lights are maintained and > > operating properly. > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
