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

[Jerry Mathis]

While IANAL, this has apparently caught even someone who IS a lawyer by surprise.
 
Someone needs to check the Rules and see if this is really required. Please quote Chapter and Verse. If not, it's just further evidence of what I've believed for a long time--the inspectors just make up the Rules as they go along. Seen it too many times.

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Jerry Mathis

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM, wpio fm 89.3 <wpio at gate.net> wrote:
>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.