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When Citizen Band (CB) radios became popular with truckers and motorists in the early 1970's, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had rules which stated operators must have licenses and every CB radio must have a separate station license. The fees were not very high for station licenses (about $10) and operators could get a license just by signing an application and agreeing to abide by the FCC RULES.
FCC has the right to regulate the airways (within reason) for the public good. This is construed to mean adopting rules so that radio and TV stations don't "step all over each other" and you can tune in your TV set to one station per channel. To enforce regulations of low-powered CB units (range about 3 to 5 miles) the FCC would have to put a lot of men out on the roads with some sophisticated equipment. To make public compliance easy, applications for station licenses were included along with the CB unit when it was purchased. The people still refused to send them in to the FCC.
At first the FCC sent out news releases threatening fines if people were found to operate a CB without a license. When the people refused to comply the government no longer "required" CBers to have an operator's license. The FCC even dropped the radio license fee to just $1 and the Application. People still refused. To make it even easier, FCC dropped the fee completely and literally begged the people to send in the Application.
The rules fell on deaf ears. Truckers ignored the FCC rules about licenses and so did the general public. Eventually, just to save face in the communications industry, FCC dropped the CB rules altogether.