Draft Constitution

Draft Constitution

1. The name of the society is “Okanagan Independent (or Campus-Community) Radio Society”.

2. The purposes of the Society are:

a) To foster, promote, encourage, support and provide for a not-for-profit radio station to enhance cultural, artistic, educational, recreational, and other activities that improve the quality of life in the Okangan, BC region;

b) To request and administer grants, donations, bequests, and gifts and to actively raise funds by any legal activity for carrying out the purposes of the society;

c) To purchase or acquire properties or equipment necessary for carrying out the purposes of the society;

d) To direct and manage the operations of a not-for-profit radio station in the Okanagan, BC region in a manner befitting the purposes of the society;


3. The purposes of the Society shall be carried out without purpose of gain for its members and any profits or other accretions to the Society shall be used for promoting its purposes;

4. In the event of the dissolution of the Society, funds and assets of the Society remaining after the satisfaction of its debts and liabilities, shall be given or transferred to such organization or organizations with similar purposes in British Columbia, as may be determined by the members of the Society at the time of dissolution provided that such organizations shall be a registered charity recognized by Revenue Canada Taxation as being qualified as such under the provisions of the Income Tax Act of Canada from time to time in effect. If effect cannot be given to the aforesaid provisions then such funds shall be given or transferred to a suitable level of local government;