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Exhibit 3.1
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
COMMUNITY VALLEY BANCORP
The name of the corporation is:
Community Valley Bancorp
TWO: PURPOSE
The purpose of this corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporations Law of California other than the banking business, the trust company business or the practice of a profession permitted to be incorporated by the California Corporations Code.
The corporation is authorized to issue only one class of shares of stock, designated "common stock," and the total number of shares which the corporation is authorized to issue is twenty million (20,000,000).
The liability of the directors of the corporation for monetary damages shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permissible under California law.
The corporation is authorized to indemnify its agents (as defined from time to time in Section 317 of the California Corporations Code) to the fullest extent permissible under California law. Any amendment, repeal or modification of the provisions of this Article shall not adversely affect any right or protection of an agent of the corporation existing at the time of such amendment, repeal or modification.
The name and address in this State of this corporation's initial agent for service of process is:
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, for the purpose of forming this corporation under the laws of the State of California, the undersigned, constituting the incorporator of this corporation, has executed these Articles of Incorporation.
Dated: July 13, 2001
| | /s/ Gary Steven Findley Gary Steven Findley |
I hereby declare that I am the person who executed the foregoing Articles of Incorporation, which execution is my act and deed.
| | /s/ Gary Steven Findley Gary Steven Findley |
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