ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE BIRMINGHAM AMATEUR RADIO CLUB, INCORPORATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF BIRMINGHAM AMATEUR RADIO CLUB, INC.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT:
That we, the undersigned trustees, having been duly elected as such, on the 3rd day of May, 1956, by the membership of the Birmingham Amateur Radio Club, Inc. for the express purpose of incorporating said organization by and in accordance with the Code of Alabama, 1940, Title 10, Section 124, et seq. as set forth in the resolutions attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and made part of this certificate do declare as follows:
ARTICLE I NAME
The name of the corporation shall be Birmingham Amateur Radio Club, Inc.
ARTICLE II OBJECTS
The objects for which this corporation is formed, and all of which may be undertaken are:
(1) To promote a better understanding and to permit better social contact among the Amateur Radio Operators and persons in the community interested in short wave communications.
(2) To increase and foster more efficient and reliable handling and relaying of traffic.
(3) To organize an active, reliable group of proficient Amateur Radio Operators to handle communications during such emergencies as may disrupt other lines of communications.
(4) To increase the knowledge of persons interested in short wave communications, both from an operating and theoretical standpoint, and to further technical knowledge of the members of the club through the presentation of suitable discussions and explanations.
(5) To promote interest in short wave communications among other interested persons through code classes, lectures, and entertainment.
(6) To provide special assistance to handicapped persons who are interested in becoming Amateur Operators.
(7) To cooperate with the Amateur Radio Relay League in promoting the best interest of Amateur Radio.
ARTICLE III - POWERS
The corporation shall have all the powers of such corporation as set out in the Code of Alabama of 1940, Title 10, Section 124, et seq.
ARTICLE IV © MEMBERSHIP
The membership shall be open to all persons who are interested in furthering the ideals and objectives of the corporation, subject only to such reasonable qualifications and limitations as shall be set out in the communication of the corporation.
ARTICLE V © TRUSTEES
All property and assets of the corporation shall be under the control and custody of the trustees; however, title to such property and assets shall be in the corporation. The trustees nor any members shall not be personally liable of any debts or obligations of the corporation except to the extent of any past due or unpaid dues.
The trustees shall be the same persons who are chosen as the governing body of the corporation and their terms of office as trustees shall exist simultaneous with their terms in office as such governing body. Their selection to membership of the governing body of the corporation in conformance to the constitution of the corporation, shall automatically constitute their selection as trustees.
The names and addresses of the incorporation trustees who have been elected to serve until the first day of July, 1956, or thereafter until their successors are chosen are as follows: 
Layton B. Dorman	President
9716 Red Lane Road
Birmingham, Alabama

Horace Leyden	Senior	
P.O. Box 603 	
Vice-President
Birmingham, Alabama

Jack Dotherow	Junior
Vice-President
Adger, Alabama

Ralph Parsons
Secretary
P.O. Box 603
Birmingham, Alabama

Alvin C. Talley
Treasurer
1025 W. 5th St.
Birmingham, Alabama

S.D. Christian
District Emergency Coordinator
8436 7th Ave No
Birmingham, Alabama

Aubrey H. White	Director
1612 Melrose Place
Milner Heights
Birmingham, Alabama

W.D. Bankston, Jr.
Director
1015 Tuscaloosa Ave
Birmingham, Alabama

Herbert F. Arnold
Director
2408 29th St W
Birmingham, Alabama

Francis Thompson
Director
1540 Valley View Drive
Homewood Alabama

Aaron M. George
Director
904 Charles Ct
Birmingham, Alabama


The rules, regulations and government of the corporation shall  be as provided for in the 
constitution of the corporation and such by-laws and rules as shall be adopted in conference 
therewith.
ARTICLE VII © CAPITAL
The corporation is formed for nonpecuniary and non-profit purposes exclusively and no shares of stock are to be issued and no dividends of any kind shall be paid.
ARTICLE VIII DURATION
The duration of the corporation shall be perpetual.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
we have hereunto set our hands and seals on this 3rd day of May, 1956. Signatures of afore stated trustees were affixed to original document at this location.

Revised By-Laws Adopted December 10, 1971
Restated and Retyped May 1, 1982
Retyped without changes, December 1991.
Retyped with changes, Art VIII Sec 3, Art V Sec 5, Art VIII Sec 7, June 1992.
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