While it doesn't appear that the requirements of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) would apply to your industry, their retention requirement for "Certificates of incorporation, or equivalent agreements and amendments thereto," is Life of Corporation.
The citation is 18 CFR 368.3-(2)(b)(1).
From an historical standpoint, I would not just keep them LC. For large corporations that have subsidiaries with separate legal standing, it would mean that you would have to dispose of these records when that subsidiary was dissolved. In fact, we experienced this and rethought the difference between LC and Permanent. Based on this, we revised some retention periods from LC to Permanent.
Maggi
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Thys, Robert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have been looking into the retention of bylaws, charters and articles of
> incorporation. I could not find any law or regulation that specifically
> states the length of time these documents should be retained.
>
your best bet is to check the laws of the state in which your company is
incorporated.
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