Operating certificate is a category of license issued by a government agency allowing an individual or company to provide a controlled type of service. These certificates are generally issued for a limited time period. Certificates can have intrinsic value and in some cases can be sold.
The term can be used to describe the document issued to operate any of the following:
- Airline; (known as a Air Operator's Certificate) the authority to operate an airline
- Airport; in the United States, the authority to operate an airport
- Adult care facility; generally issued by a local authority
- Transportation company; generally issued by a local authority
Famous quotes containing the words operating and/or certificate:
“I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“God gave the righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, but the unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same in God’s coffers, and appropriated it, and obtained food and raiment like the former. It is one of the most extensive systems of counterfeiting that the world has seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)