UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant To Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported) January 3, 2001
CENTRAL NATURAL RESOURCES, INC.
(Formerly Central Coal & Coke Corporation)
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware 0-1392 44-0195290
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(State or other jurisdiction (Commission File Number) (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or Identification No.)
organization)
127 West 10th Street, Suite 666, Kansas City, Missouri 64105
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
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Registrant's telephone number, including area code 816/842-2430
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SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OF THE ACT:
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Title of each class Name of each Exchange on which Registered
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None None
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SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(g) OF THE ACT:
Common Stock ($1 Par Value)
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(Title of Class)
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Items 1 through 4 Inclusive - NONE
Item 5 - OTHER EVENTS
The record owners of 183,608 shares of common stock of the Registrant-a
majority of the outstanding shares-executed written consents which were
delivered to the Registrant on or before December 26, 2000. Pursuant to the
consents, the "Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Central
Coal & Coke Corporation" in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A and
incorporated herein by this reference was approved. The Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of
Delaware on December 26, 2000, and became effective as of December 31, 2000.
Among other changes effected by the filing of the Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of Delaware, the
corporate name was changed from "Central Coal & Coke Corporation" to
"Central Natural Resources, Inc." and the authorized number of shares have
been increased to a total of 2,600,000, 2,500,000 shares of common stock of
$1.00 par value and 100,000 shares of preferred stock of $100.00 par value.
Items 6-9 Inclusive - NONE
SIGNATURES
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned herein duly authorized.
CENTRAL NATURAL RESOURCES, INC.
(Formerly Central Coal & Coke Corp.)
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Date: January 3, 2001 By /s/ Phelps M. Wood
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Phelps M. Wood
President
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EXHIBIT "A"
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
CENTRAL COAL & COKE CORPORATION
WHEREAS, the original Certificate of Incorporation of Central Coal & Coke
Corporation (hereinafter "the Corporation") was filed with the Secretary of
State of the State of Delaware on January 9, 1936;
WHEREAS, this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
restates, integrates and amends the Corporation's Certificate of
Incorporation filed on January 9, 1936, as amended, and has been duly adopted
in accordance with Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law.
The text of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of this
Corporation is hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as
follows:
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is
Central Natural Resources, Inc.
SECOND: Its registered office in the State of Delaware is located at
1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name
and address of its resident agent is the Corporation Trust Company, 1209
Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware.
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THIRD: The nature of the business or objects or purposes to be
transacted, promoted or carried on are:
To mine, purchase, or otherwise acquire, and to sell and deal in coal,
oil, gas and other minerals, selling at either wholesale or retail, and to
generally engage in any and all activities involving natural resources.
To acquire, own, enter or lease mines and mineral lands of every kind,
nature and description; also to acquire, own, enter, lease, sell, assign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of mill sites, water rights and terminal
facilities; to work, prospect or develop mines and mineral lands of every
nature or description, either for itself or other companies, corporations or
individuals, upon such terms and for such remuneration as it shall deem fit
and proper and to accept, take and hold mineral lands and claims and claims
of every kind and nature, either as an entirety or any portion thereof.
To manufacture, purchase or otherwise acquire, own, mortgage, pledge,
sell, assign and transfer, or otherwise dispose of, to invest, trade, deal in
and deal with goods, wares and merchandise and personal property of every
class and description.
To acquire, and pay for in cash, stock or bonds of this corporation or
otherwise, the good will, rights, assets and property, and to undertake or
assume the whole or any part of the obligations or liabilities of any person,
firm, association or corporation.
To acquire, hold, use, sell, assign, lease, grant licenses in respect of,
mortgage or otherwise dispose of letters patent of the United States or any
foreign country, patent rights, licenses and privileges, inventions,
improvements and processes, copyrights, trademarks and trade names, relating
to or useful in connection with any business of this corporation.
To acquire by purchase, subscription or otherwise, and to invest in, hold
or dispose of, bonds or other obligations or evidences of indebtedness of any
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individual, partnership, association, government or subdivision thereof, and
stocks, bonds, securities or other obligations or evidences of indebtedness
of any individual, partnership, association, government or subdivision
thereof, and stocks, bonds, securities or other obligations or evidences of
indebtedness of any other corporation or association, domestic or foreign;
and , in any manner permitted by law, to exchange therefore its stock, bonds
or other obligations, as well as any other of its property; and while the
owner of any such stocks, bonds, securities, evidences of indebtedness or
other obligations, to exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of
ownership, including the right to vote thereon for any and all purposes; to
aid by loan, subsidy, guaranty or in any other manner whatsoever any
individual, firm, association, corporation or government whose stocks, bonds,
securities or other obligations are in any manner held; and to do any and
all acts or things towards the preservation, protection, improvement or
enhancement in value of any such stocks, bonds, securities or other
obligations, and to do any and all such acts and things designed to
accomplish any such purpose.
To enter into, make and perform contracts of every kind and description
with any person, firm, association, corporation, municipality, county, state,
body politic or government or colony or dependency thereof.
To borrow or raise monies for any of the purposes of the Corporation and,
from time to time, without limit as to amount, to draw, make, accept, endorse,
execute and issue promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, warrants,
bonds, debentures and other negotiable or nonnegotiable instruments and
evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the payment of any thereof and of
the interest thereon by mortgage upon or pledge, conveyance or assignment in
trust of the whole or any part of the property of the corporation, whether at
the time owned or thereafter acquired and to sell, pledge or otherwise
dispose of such bonds or other obligations of the Corporation for its
corporate purposes.
To purchase, hold, sell and transfer the shares of its own capital stock;
provided it shall not use its funds or property for the purchase of its own
shares of capital stock when such use would cause any impairment of its
capital except as otherwise permitted by law, and provided further that the
shares of its own capital stock belonging to it shall not be voted upon
directly or indirectly.
To have one or more offices, to carry on all or any of its operations and
business and without restriction or limit as to amount to purchase or
otherwise acquire, hold, own, mortgage, sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of
real and personal property of every class and description in any of the
States, Districts, Territories or Colonies of the United States, and in any
and all foreign countries, subject to the laws of such State, District,
Territory, Colony or Country.
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To engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be
organized under the laws of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: A. The Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of
stock to be designated respectively Preferred Stock ("Preferred Stock") and
Common Stock ("Common Stock"). The total number of shares of capital stock
that the Corporation is authorized to issue is 2,600,000. The total number
of shares of Preferred Stock the Corporation shall have authority to issue
is 100,000 at $1.00 par value. The total number of shares of Common Stock
the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 2,500,000 at $1.00 par value.
Any and all such shares may be issued for such consideration expressed in
dollars, as shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors of the
Corporation. The consideration shall be paid, in whole or in part, in
tangible or intangible property or benefit to the Corporation, including
cash, services performed or other securities of the Corporation. The
promissory note of a subscriber or an affiliate of the subscriber for shares
shall not constitute consideration for the shares unless the note is
negotiable, is not nonrecourse and is secured by collateral, other than the
shares, having a fair market value at least equal to the principal amount of
the note. Upon receipt of the consideration fixed by the Board of Directors,
such shares shall be issued and deemed fully paid and nonassessable.
B. The shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time
in one or more series. The Board of Directors is expressly authorized by
resolution to provide for the issue of all or any of the shares of the
Preferred Stock in one or more series, and to fix the number of shares and to
determine or alter for each such series, such voting powers, full or limited,
or no voting powers, and such powers, designations, preferences, and relative,
participating, optional, or other rights and such qualifications, limitations,
or restrictions thereof, as shall be stated and expressed in a resolution
adopted by the Board of Directors and incorporated into a certificate of
designations filed with the Secretary of State.
C. Each holder of Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote for
each common share held.
D. No holder of stock of this Corporation of any class shall have
any preemptive or preferential right to purchase or subscribe for stock of
this Corporation, whether now or hereafter authorized, or to any obligations
convertible into stock of this Corporation issued or sold, or any right of
subscription to any thereof other than such, if any, as the Board of Directors
in its discretion may from time to time determine and at such price as the
Board of Directors may from time to time fix pursuant to the authorty
conferred by this certificate; and any shares of stock or convertible
obligations which the Board of Directors may determine to offer for
subscription to the holders of stock may, as the Board shall determine, be
offered exclusively to holders of one, more, or all classes of stock, or
partly to holders of one class of stock, and partly to holders of another
class or classes of stock, and in such case in such proportion as between
said classes of stock as the Board of Directors in its discretion may
determine.
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FIFTH: The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
SIXTH: The private property of the stockholders shall not be subject to
the payment of corporate debts to any extent whatever.
SEVENTH: In furtherance, and not in limitation of the powers conferred
by statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized:
To make, alter or repeal the by-laws of the Corporation.
To authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon
the real and personal property of the Corporation.
To set apart out of any of the funds of the Corporation available for
dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose or to abolish any such
reserve in the manner in which it was created.
By resolution or resolutions, passed by a majority of the whole Board, to
designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of
the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in said
resolution or resolutions or in the by-laws of the Corporation, shall have
and may exercise the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of
the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have the power to
authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may
require it. Such committee or committees shall have such name or names as
may be stated in the by-laws of the Corporation or as may be determined from
time to time by resolution adopted by the Board of Directors.
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When and as authorized by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority
of the stock issued and outstanding having voting power given at a
stockholders' meeting duly called for that purpose, or when authorized by the
written consent of the holders of a majority of the voting stock issued and
outstanding, to sell, lease or exchange all of the property and assets of the
corporation, including its good will and its corporate franchises, upon such
terms and conditions and for such consideration, which may be in whole or in
part shares of stock in, and/or other securities of, any other corporation or
corporations, as its Board of Directors shall deem expedient and for the best
interests of the Corporation.
The Corporation may in its by-laws confer powers upon its Board of
Directors in addition to the foregoing, and in addition to the powers and
authorities expressly conferred upon it by statute.
EIGHTH: Both stockholders and directors shall have power if the
by-laws so provide, to hold their meetings, and to have one or more offices
within or without the State of Delaware, and to keep the books of this
Corporation (subject to the provisions of the statutes), outside of the State
of Delaware at such places as may be from time to time designated by the
Board of Directors.
NINTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or
repeal any provisions contained in this certificate of incorporation, in the
manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon
stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.
TENTH: A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable
to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of
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 derived
any improper personal benefit. If the Delaware General Corporation Law is
amended after approval by the stockholders of this certificate of
incorporation to authorize corporation action further eliminating or limiting
the personal liability of directors then the liability of a director of the
Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by
the Delaware General Corporation Law as so amended.
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Any repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of this Tenth
Article by the stockholders of the Corporation shall not adversely affect any
right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of
such repeal or modification.
This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation shall be effective
December 31, 2000.
Executed this 26th day of December, 2000
/s/ Phelps M. Wood
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Phelps M. Wood
President
