[BC] Public File now must include Articles of Inc. and Bylaws

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This comes as a surprise since:

1. You don't have to provide articles of incorporation and by-laws on 
your 340 or 301 applications

2. The public file checklist that the FCC quasi embraces, doesn't call 
for this item.

A communications attorney sent this to its clients:

> CLIENT MEMO--ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION AND BY-LAWS

> In a recent Order the FCC issued a forfeiture in the amount of one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($1,250) against Connecticut Radio Fellowship, Inc., the licensee of Station WIHS(FM), Middletown, Connecticut, for violating the public inspection file requirements by failing to maintain a copy of its articles of incorporation and by-laws in the Station's local public inspection file, and by failing to provide requested copies within a reasonable amount of time.

> I have never seen the FCC issue a fine for this "requirement", but the message is clear.  Make sure, if you are a corporation, that you have copies of your articles of incorporation and your corporate by-laws in your public file.