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:
“Go on then in doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword; shew that reformation is more practicable by operating on the mind than on the body of man.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“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)