[Ansteorra] waterbearing
Mike Andrews W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Thu Jun 19 06:44:52 PDT 2008
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:24:00AM -0500, Goldweard of St. Golias wrote:
> It may sound like a strange solution, but couldn't a non-profit
> corporation be set up for waterbearing. It's pretty cheap to do so.
> The water-bearing could then "rent" supplies from the local sca group
> for $1.00 an event.
>
> Since the waterbearing is sponsored by a non profit it provides
> liability to individuals. If someone wanted to sue the non-profit.
> and since the corporation would have no monies, there would be nothing
> lawyers would get from it. This protects the society from any
> culpability in waterbearing.
>
> The non-profit would be set up so that individual chapters would be
> part of the large non-profit. this way there only has to be one set
> of filings instead of a organization for each local waterbearer group.
>
> Its a little bit of paperwork, but it may be a solution.
Setting up a non-profit corporation is non-trivial (BT,DT), and
involves some effort. IIRC (and ICBW here), going the non-profit
route also requires that the corporation have been in operation
for a while first -- at least for a 501(c)(3).
Welcome to the wonderful world of regulation and litigation, where
only the regulators and the lawyers profit.
--
Mike Andrews / Michael Fenwick Barony of Namron, Ansteorra
mikea at mikea.ath.cx / Amateur Extra radio operator W5EGO
Tired old music Laurel; Chirurgeon; SCAdian since AS XI
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