EXHIBIT 3.19
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
Sterling Investments Company
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1. The name of the corporation is Sterling Investments Company.
2. The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is
Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County
of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at such address is The
Corporation Trust Company.
3. The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted is to
engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized
under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
In general, to possess and exercise all the powers and privileges granted
by the General corporation Law of Delaware or by any other law of Delaware or by
this Certificate of Incorporation together with any powers incidental thereto,
so far as such powers and privileges are necessary or convenient to the conduct,
promotion or attainment of the business or purposes of the corporation.
4. The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall have
authority to issue is Ten Thousand (10,000) common shares and the par value of
each of such shares is One Dollar ($1.00) amounting in the aggregate to Ten
Thousand Dollars ($10,000).
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5. The name and mailing address of each incorporator is as follows:
NAME MAILING ADDRESS
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M. C. Kinnamon Corporation Trust Center
1209 Orange Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
T. D. Fry Corporation Trust Center
1209 Orange Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
M. A. Humphrey Corporation Trust Center
1209 Orange Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19801
The name and mailing address of each person who is to serve as a director
until the first annual meeting of the stockholders or until a successor is
elected and qualified, is as follows:
NAME ADDRESS
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Patrick W. Rooney c/o Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
Lima & Western Avenues
Findlay, Ohio 45840
J. Alec Reinhardt " "
John Fahl " "
6. The corporation is to have perpetual existence.
7. 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.
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To set apart out of any of the funds of the corporation available for
dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and to abolish any such
reserve in the manner in which it was created.
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. The
board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee,
who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the
committee. The by-laws may provide that in the absence or disqualification of a
member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and
not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may
unanimously appoint another member of the board of directors to act at the
meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such
committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the board of directors,
or in the by-laws of the corporation, shall have and may exercise all the powers
and authority of the board of directors in the management of the business and
affairs of the corporation, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be
affixed to all papers which may require it; but no such committee shall have the
power or authority in reference to amending the Certificate of Incorporation,
adopting an agreement of merger or consolidation, recommending to the
stockholders the sale, lease or exchange of all or substantially all of the
corporation's property and assets, recommending to the stockholders a
dissolution of the corporation or a revocation of a dissolution, or amending the
by-laws of the corporation; and, unless the resolution or by-laws expressly so
provide, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a
dividend or to authorize the issuance of stock.
When and as authorized by the stockholders in accordance with law, to sell,
lease or exchange all or substantially all of the property and assets of the
corporation, including its good
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will and its corporate franchises, upon such terms and conditions and for such
consideration, which may consist in whole or in part of money or property
including 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.
8. Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the by-laws
of the corporation shall so provide.
Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of
Delaware, as the by-laws may provide. The books of the corporation may be kept
(subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside the State of
Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the
board of directors or in the by-laws of the corporation.
9. The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any
provision 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.
10. 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.
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, being each of the incorporators hereinbefore named,
for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware, do make this certificate, hereby declaring and
certifying that this is our act and deed and the facts herein stated are true,
and accordingly have hereunto set our hands this 5th day of, October 1995.
/s/ M.C. Kinnamon
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M. C. Kinnamon
/s/ T.D. Fry
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T. D. Fry
/s/ M.A. Humphrey
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M. A. Humphrey
