MORROW SNOWBOARDS INC
8-K, EX-4, 2000-11-06
SPORTING & ATHLETIC GOODS, NEC
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                          AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER
                                     MERGING
                             MORROW SNOWBOARDS, INC.
                          DBA GRANITE BAY TECHNOLOGIES,
                              an Oregon Corporation
                                      INTO
                         GRANITE BAY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
                            a California Corporation


        This  Agreement and Plan of Merger was approved on September 28, 2000 by
Morrow Snowboards, Inc. dba Granite Bay Technologies ("Morrow Snowboards" or the
"Terminating  Corporation"),  a business corporation of the State of Oregon, and
by  resolution  adopted by its Board of Directors on said date,  and approved on
September  28, 2000, by Granite Bay  Technologies,  Inc.  ("Granite  Bay" or the
"Surviving Corporation"), a business corporation organized under the laws of the
State of California, and by resolution adopted by its Board of Directors on said
date.

        1.  Merger.  Morrow  Snowboards  and Granite Bay shall,  pursuant to the
provisions of the Oregon Business Corporation Act and the California Corporation
Code, be merged with and into a single  corporation,  to wit, Granite Bay, which
shall be the Surviving  Corporation at the effective time and date of the merger
and which  is sometimes hereinafter referred to as the "Surviving  Corporation,"
and  which  shall  continue  to exist as said  Surviving  Corporation  under its
present name, Granite Bay Technologies,  Inc., pursuant to the provisions of the
laws of the jurisdiction of its organization.  The separate  existence of Morrow
Snowboards,  which is  sometimes  hereinafter  referred  to as the  "Terminating
Corporation," shall cease at said effective time and date in accordance with the
provisions of the Oregon Business Corporation Act.

        2. Effective Date. This Agreement shall become effective at the close of
business on the day on which this Agreement  shall have been filed with both the
Secretary of State of the State of California in accordance with Section 1103 of
the California  General  Corporation Law and the Secretary of State of the State
of Oregon in accordance with Section 60.011 of the Oregon Revised  Statutes (the
"Effective Date").

        3.  Shares   Outstanding.   As  of  the  date  hereof,  the  Terminating
Corporation has 40,000,000  shares of Common Stock, no par value, and 10,000,000
shares of Preferred  Stock,  no par value,  authorized and 18,032,906  shares of
Common  Stock and no  shares  of  Preferred  Stock  outstanding.  As of the date
hereof, the Surviving  Corporation has 40,000,000 shares of Common Stock, no par
value, and 10,000,000  shares of Preferred  Stock, no par value,  authorized and
100 shares of Common Stock and no Preferred Stock outstanding.

        4. Corporate  Documents.  The Articles of Incorporation of the Surviving
Corporation  as in force and effect at the effective time and date of the merger
in the jurisdiction of its  organization  shall be the Articles of Incorporation
of said Surviving Corporation and said Articles of Incorporation


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shall  continue in full force and effect until amended and changed in the manner
prescribed by the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization.

        5.  Bylaws.  The  bylaws of the  Surviving  Corporation  as in force and
effect at the  effective  time and date of the merger will be the bylaws of said
Surviving  Corporation and will continue in full force and effect until changed,
altered,  or amended as therein  provided  and in the manner  prescribed  by the
provisions of the laws of the  jurisdiction  of  organization  of said Surviving
Corporation.

        6.  Directors and Officers.  The directors and officers in office of the
Terminating  Corporation  at the effective  time and date of the merger shall be
the  members  of the first  Board of  Directors  and the first  officers  of the
Surviving  Corporation,  all of whom shall hold their  directorships and offices
until the election and  qualification  of their  respective  successors or until
their  tenure is  otherwise  terminated  in  accordance  with the  bylaws of the
Surviving Corporation.

        7. Shares. Each issued share of the Terminating  Corporation immediately
prior to the effective time and date of the merger shall,  on the Effective Date
of the merger, be converted into One (1) share of the Surviving Corporation. The
previously outstanding One Hundred (100) shares of Common Stock of the Surviving
Corporation  registered in the name of the Terminating  Corporation shall not be
converted in any manner and shall be reacquired by the Surviving Corporation and
retired and shall resume the status of authorized and unissued  shares of Common
Stock of the Surviving Corporation.

        8.  Share  Certificates.  On and after the  Effective  Date,  all of the
outstanding  certificates  which  prior to that time  represented  shares of the
Terminating  Corporation shall be deemed for all purposes to evidence  ownership
of and to represent shares of the Surviving Corporation into which the shares of
the Terminating Corporation represented by such certificates have been converted
as  herein  provided.  The  registered  owner on the books  and  records  of the
Terminating  Corporation  or its transfer  agent of any such  outstanding  stock
certificate shall have and shall be entitled,  until such certificate shall have
been  surrendered  for  transfer or  otherwise  accounted  for to the  Surviving
Corporation or its transfer  agent, to exercise any voting and other rights with
respect to and to receive any dividend and other  distributions  upon the shares
of the Surviving Corporation evidenced by such outstanding  certificate as above
provided.

        9.  Other  Rights to  Stock.  Upon the  Effective  Date the  options  to
purchase shares of common stock of the Terminating  Corporation  which have been
granted by the Terminating  Corporation  pursuant to the Granite Bay 2000 Equity
Incentive  Plan,  Morrow  Snowboards,  Inc.  Employee  Equity  Incentive Plan as
amended  February  23  1997,  Morrow  Snowboards,  Inc.  Stock  Option  Plan for
Non-Employee  Directors and Morrow  Snowboards,  Inc. 1999 Stock Option Plan for
Non-Employee Directors (collectively the "Plans"), shall be deemed to be options
granted by the Surviving  Corporation  and the  obligations  of the  Terminating
Corporation  with respect thereto shall be assumed by the Surviving  Corporation
with the same terms and  conditions,  and each  option to  acquire  one share of
common stock of the Terminating Corporation which is not exercised prior to



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the  Effective  Date  shall be deemed to be an  option to  acquire  one share of
common stock of the Surviving  Corporation.  Upon the Effective  Date, the Plans
shall be adopted and approved by the  Surviving  Corporation  and the  Surviving
Corporation shall be authorized to grant any and all options,  restricted stock,
stock  appreciation  rights,  stock units,  other stock grants  according to the
provisions of the Plans.

        10. Shareholder  Approval.  The Agreement and Plan of Merger herein made
and  approved  shall  be  submitted  to  the  shareholders  of  the  Terminating
Corporation  for their  approval or  rejection in the manner  prescribed  by the
provisions of the Oregon Business Corporation Act and to the shareholders of the
Surviving  Corporation for their approval or rejection in the manner  prescribed
by the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization.

        11. Assets and Rights. Upon the Effective Date, all rights,  privileges,
franchises,  and  property  of the  Terminating  Corporation,  and all debts and
liabilities  due or to  become  due to the  Terminating  Corporation,  including
things in action and every  interest or asset of  conceivable  value or benefit,
shall be deemed fully and finally and without any right of reversion transferred
to and vested in the Surviving  Corporation without further act or deed, and the
Surviving  Corporation shall have and hold the same in its own right as fully as
the same was possessed and held by the Terminating Corporation.

        12. Liabilities.  Upon the Effective Date, all debts,  liabilities,  and
obligations  due or to  become  due and all  claims  or  demands  for any  cause
existing  against  Terminating  Corporation,  shall  be and  become  the  debts,
liabilities,  obligations of, and the claims and demands against,  the Surviving
Corporation  in the same  manner  as if the  Surviving  Corporation  had  itself
incurred or become liable for them.

        13.  Creditors' Rights and Liens. Upon the Effective Date, all rights of
the creditors of the Terminating Corporation, and all liens upon the property of
the Terminating Corporation,  shall be preserved unimpaired,  and limited to the
property affected by the liens immediately prior to the time of the merger.

        14.  Pending  Actions.  Upon  Effective  Date,  any action or proceeding
pending by or against the  Terminating  Corporation  shall not be deemed to have
been abated or discontinued,  but may be prosecuted to judgment,  with the right
to appeal or review as in other cases,  as if the merger had not taken place, or
the Surviving Corporation may be substituted for the Terminating Corporation.

        15.  Abandonment.  At any time before the Effective Date, this Agreement
and Plan of Merger may be terminated and the Merger  contemplated  hereby may be
abandoned  by the Board of  Directors  of either the  Surviving  or  Terminating
Corporation,   notwithstanding   approval  of  this  Merger   Agreement  by  the
shareholders of the Constituent Corporations.



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        16. Authorization. The Board of Directors and the proper officers of the
Terminating  Corporation  and of the Surviving  Corporation,  respectively,  are
hereby  authorized,  empowered,  and directed to do any and all acts and things,
and to make,  execute,  deliver,  file,  and/or record any and all  instruments,
papers,  and documents which shall be or become necessary,  proper or convenient
to carry out or put into effect any of the provisions of this Agreement and Plan
of Merger or of the merger herein provided for.

        17.  Further  Assurances.  Each  of the  Surviving  Corporation  and the
Terminating  Corporation  agree that at any time,  or from time to time,  as and
when requested by the Surviving  Corporation,  or by its successors and assigns,
it will execute and deliver,  or cause to be executed and  delivered in its name
by its last acting officers,  or by the corresponding  officers of the Surviving
Corporation,  all such  conveyances,  assignments,  transfers,  deeds,  or other
instruments,  and will take or cause to be taken such further or other action as
the  Surviving  Corporation,  its  successors  or assigns may deem  necessary or
desirable,  in order to evidence the  transfer,  vesting,  or  devolution of any
property right, privilege, or franchisor to vest or perfect in or confirm to the
Surviving  Corporation,  its successors and assigns,  title to and possession of
all the  property,  rights,  privileges,  powers,  immunities,  franchises,  and
interests  referred to in this  Section 1 and  otherwise to carry out the intent
and purposes hereof.

        18.  Governing Law. This Agreement is made and entered into in the State
of  California,  and the  laws of said  State  shall  govern  the  validity  and
interpretation hereof.

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        IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the  parties  have  caused  this  Agreement  to be
executed  by their duly  authorized  officers as of the day and year first above
written.


                             MORROW SNOWBOARDS, INC.
                             DBA GRANITE BAY TECHNOLOGIES




                             /s/P. Blair Mullin
                             P. Blair Mullin,
                             President and Secretary




                             GRANITE BAY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.







                             /s/P. Blair Mullin
                             P. Blair Mullin,
                             President and Secretary



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