CHARTER OF
MILLER CONTRACT DRILLING, INC.
The undersigned natural person having capacity to contract and acting
as the incorporator of the Tennessee Corporation organized under the
Tennessee General Corporation Act, adopts the following Charter for
such Corporation:
ARTICLE ONE: The name of the Corporation is:
MILLER CONTRACT DRILLING, INC.
ARTICLE TWO: Term of Existence. This corporation is to commence
business operations on January 24, 1978, and will exist perpetually
unless dissolved in the manner prescribed by law.
ARTICLE THREE: The address of the principal office of the
corporation is:
714 North Dixie
Cookeville, Tennessee 38501
County of Putnam
ARTICLE FOUR: The Corporation is for profit.
ARTICLE FIVE: The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is
organized are:
To establish and maintain a drilling business with
authority to own and operate drilling rigs, machinery,
tools, or apparatus necessary in the boring or otherwise
sinking of wells for the production of oil, gas, or water;
to construct or acquire by lease or otherwise, and to
maintain and operate pipe lines for the conveyance of
oil and natural gas. oil storage tanks and reservoirs,
and tank cars of all kinds, tank z-steamers, and other
vessels, wharves, docks, warehouses, storage houses,
loading racks, and all other convenient instrumentalities
for the shipping and transportation of crude or refined
petroleum or natural gas and all other volatile, solid,
or liquid mineral substances in any and all forms; to
manufacture, buy, sell, lease, let, and hire machines
and machinery, equipment, tools, implements, and appli-
ances, and all other property, real and personal, useful
or available in prospecting for and in producing, trans
porting, storing, refining, or preparing for market,
petroleum and natural gas and all other volatile and mineral
substances and their products and by-products and of all
articles and materials in any way resulting from or
connected therewith; to purchase, lease, construct, or
otherwise acquire, exchange, sell, let, or otherwise dispose
of, own, maintain, develop, and improve any and all property,
real or personal, plants, refineries, factories, warehouses,
stores, and buildings of all kinds useful in connection with
the business of the Corporation includinq the drilling for oil
and gas wells or mining in any manner or by any method
permitted by law on such real property.
To conduct any and all activities incidental to the above
purposes which may be lawfully conducted under the Tennessee
General Corporation Act.
ARTICLE SIX: The maximum number of shares-which the Corporation
shall have the authority to issue is One Thousand (1,000) shares with no
par value.
ARTICLE SEVEN: The Corporation will not commence business until
consideration of at least One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars has been
received for the issuance of shares.
ARTICLE EIGHT: The Corporation shall
be governed by a Board of Directors, the number of which is to be fixed
in the By-Laws adopted for the Corporation. If the By-Laws allow the
Board to change the number of Directors, it shall be done by a majority
vote by such Board. However, no decrease in the number of Directors
shall shorten the term of any incumbent Director.
ARTICLE NINE: Amendment. This Charter may be amended in the manner
provided by Section 48-302 of the Tennessee General Corporation Act.
ARTICLE TEN: By-Laws. The Board of Directors are hereby given the
power to adopt the By-Laws necessary to conduct orderly and proper
functions of the Corporation as provided by law.
I, the undersigned incorporator, apply to the State of Tennessee by
virtue of the laws of such state for filing of the foregoing Charter,
with the Secretary of State, this 24th day of January, 1978.
/S/H. Stennis Little, Jr., Incorporator
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I, GENTRY CROWELL, Secretary of State, do certify that this Charter,
with certificate attached, the foregoing of which is a true copy, was this
day registered and certified to by me.
This the 24th day of January, 1978.
GENTRY CROWELL
SECRETARY OF STATE
FEE:$20.00
