CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
ALBION VENTURES, INC.
(a Delaware corporation)
The undersigned, in order to form a corporation pursuant to the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, does hereby certify as follows:
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Albion Ventures, Inc.
SECOND: The address of the registered office of the Corporation in the
State of Delaware is WXYZ, Inc., 3640-A Concord Pike, in the City of Wilmington,
County of Newcastle, 19803. The name of its registered agent at the address is
WXYZ, Inc.
THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any
lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized
under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: The total number of shares of all classes which the Corporation
is authorized to have outstanding is Twenty One Million (21,000,000) shares of
which stock Twenty Million (20,000,000) shares in the par value of $.001 each,
amounting in the aggregate of Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000) shall be common
stock and of which One Million (1,000,000) shares in the par value of $.001
each, amounting in the aggregate to One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) shall be
preferred stock. The board of directors is authorized, subject to limitations
prescribed by law, to provide for the issuance of the authorized shares of
preferred stock in series, and by filing a certificate pursuant to the
applicable law of the State of Delaware, to establish from time to time the
number of shares to be included in each such series and the qualifications,
limitations or restrictions thereof. The authority of the board with respect to
each series shall include, but not be limited to, determination of the
following:
(a) The number of shares constituting that series and the
distinctive designation of that series;
(b) The dividend rate on the shares of that series, whether
dividends shall be cumulative, and, if so, from which date or
dates, and the relative rights of priority, if any, of payment
of dividends on shares of that series;
(c) Whether that series shall have voting rights, in addition to
the voting rights provided by law, and, if so, the terms of
such voting rights;
(d) Whether that series shall have conversion privileges,
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and, if so, the terms and conditions of such conversion,
including provision for adjustment of the conversion rate in
such events as the Board of Directors shall determine;
(e) Whether or not the shares of that series shall be redeemable,
and, if so, the terms and conditions of such redemption,
including the date or date upon or after which they shall be
redeemable, and the amount per share payable in case of
redemption, which amount may vary under different conditions,
and at different redemption rates;
(f) Whether that series shall have a sinking fund for the
redemption or purchase of shares of that series, and, if so,
the terms and amount of such sinking fund;
(g) The rights of the shares of that series in the event of
voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding
up of the corporation, and the relative rights of priority, if
any, of payment of shares of that series;
(h) Any other relative rights, preferences and limitations of that
series, unless otherwise provided by the certificate of
determination.
FIFTH: Election of directors ar an annual or special meeting of
stockholders need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the corporation
shall otherwise provide. The number of directors of the corporation which shall
constitute the whole board of directors shall be such as from time to time shall
be fixed by or in the manner provided in the bylaws.
SIXTH: In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by
statute, the board of directors is expressly authorized to make, repeal, alter,
amend and rescind the bylaws of the corporation.
SEVENTH: A director of the corporation shall not be personally liable
for monetary damages to the corporation or its stockholders for breach of any
fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the
director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders; (ii) for acts
or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law; (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derives an
improper personal benefit.
EIGHTH: A director or officer of the corporation shall not be
disqualified by his or her office from dealing or contracting with the
corporation as a vendor, purchaser, employee, agent or otherwise. No
transaction, contract or act of the corporation shall be void or voidable or in
any way affected or invalidated by reason of the fact that any director or
officer of the Corporation is a member of any firm, a stockholder, director or
officer of any
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corporation or trustee or beneficiary of any trust that is in any way interested
in such transaction, contract or act. No director or officer shall be
accountable or responsible to the corporation for or in respect to any
transaction, contract or act of the corporation or for any gain or profit
directly or indirectly realized by him or her by reason of the fact that he or
she or any firm in which he or she is a member or any corporation of which he or
she is a stockholder, director, or officer, or any trust of which he or she is a
trustee, or beneficiary, is interest in such transaction, contract or act;
provided the fact that such director or officer or such firm, corporation,
trustee or beneficiary of such trust, is so interest shall have been disclosed
or shall have been known to the members of the board of directors as shall be
present at any meeting at which action upon such contract, transaction or act
shall have been taken. Any director may be counted in determining the existence
of a quorum at any meeting of the board of directors which shall authorize or
take action in respect to any such contract, transaction or act, and may vote
thereat to authorize, ratify or approve any such contract, transaction or act,
and any officer of the corporation may take any action within the scope of his
or her authority, respecting such contract, transaction or act with like force
and effect as if he or she or any firm of which he or she is a member, or any
corporation of which he or she is a stockholder, director or officer, or any
trust of which he or she is a trustee or beneficiary, were not interested in
such transaction, contract or act. Without limiting or qualifying the foregoing,
if in any judicial or other inquiry, suit, cause or proceeding, the question of
whether a director or officer of the corporation has acted in good faith is
material, and notwithstanding any statue or rule of law or equity to the
contrary (if any there be) his or her good faith shall be presumed in the
absence of proof to the contrary by clear and convincing evidence.
NINTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between the
corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between the
corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable
jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary
way of the corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the
application of any receiver or receivers appointed for the corporation under the
provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application
of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for the
corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code,
order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the
stockholders or class of stockholders of the corporation, as the case may be, to
be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number
representing three-fourths in value of the creditors of class of creditors,
and/or the stockholders or class of stockholders of the corporation, as the case
may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this
corporation as consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said
compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by
the court to which
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the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of
creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of the
corporation, as the case may be, and also on the corporation.
TENTH: The corporation reserves the right to amend and repeal any
provision contained in this certificate of incorporation in the manner
prescribed by the laws of the State of Delaware. All rights herein conferred are
granted subject to this reservation.
ELEVENTH: The incorporator is Jehu Hand whose mailing address
is 24351 Cabot Road, Suite 207, Laguna Hills. California 92653.
I, the undersigned, being the incorporator, for the purpose of forming
a corporation under the laws of the State of Delaware do make, file and record
this Certificate of Incorporation, do certify that the facts herein stated are
true, and, accordingly, have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of April, 1994.
/s/ Jehu Hand
Jehu Hand,
Incorporator
