609.01 A calendar year company proposed to file a registration statement on Form S-3 on February 1, 2006. The registrant would include financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2005, and incorporate its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004. The registrant was concerned because the financial statements in the 2004 Form 10-K would become out of date. Rule 412(a), however, has the effect in these circumstances of automatically superseding the December 31, 2004 financial statements for purposes of the Form S-3 filing. In the event the registrant wished to remove all doubt about outdated financial statements in the Form 10-K being superseded by later financials included in the Form S-3, Rule 412(b) permits it to include a specific statement in the Form S-3 on the subject. [Jan. 26, 2009]