Exhibit 3.3.24
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
LOEWS USA CINEMAS INC.
Pursuant to Section 102 of the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware
The undersigned, in order to form a corporation pursuant to Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, does hereby certify:
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Loews USA Cinemas Inc.
SECOND: The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware 19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.
THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: The total number of shares which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 100 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share.
FIFTH: The name and mailing address of the Incorporator is as follows:
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| Mailing Address |
Philip A. Epstein |
| Room 2636 One New York Plaza New York, New York 10004 |
SIXTH: The Board of Directors is expressly authorized to adopt, amend or repeal the by–laws of the Corporation.
SEVENTH: Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the by-laws of the Corporation shall otherwise provide.
EIGHTH: The Corporation shall indemnify to the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as amended from time to time each person that such Section grants the Corporation the power to indemnify.
NINTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this Corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all of the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.
TENTH: 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.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of January, 1988 and I affirm that the foregoing certificate is my act and deed and that the facts stated therein are true.
| /s/ PHILIP A. EPSTEIN |
| Philip A. Epstein, Incorporator |
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CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF LOCATION
OF REGISTERED OFFICE AND OF REGISTERED AGENT
It is hereby certified that:
1. The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the “corporation”) is:
LOEWS USA CINEMAS INC.
2. The registered office of the corporation within the State of Delaware is hereby changed to 229 South State Street, City of Dover 19901, County of Kent.
3. The registered agent of the corporation within the State of Delaware is hereby changed to The Prentice-Hall Corporation System, Inc., the business office of which is identical with the registered office of the corporation as hereby changed.
4. The corporation has authorized the changes hereinbefore set forth by the unanimous written consent of the directors of the corporation.
Signed as of January 22, 1989.
| /s/ SEYMOUR H. SMITH |
| SEYMOUR H. SMITH |
| Executive Vice President |
Attest: | |
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/s/ DAVID I. BADAIN |
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DAVID I. BADAIN |
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Assistant Secretary |
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CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
OF
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
Loews USA Cinemas, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,
DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:
FIRST: In accordance with Section 303 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, this Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation was made pursuant to a provision contained in an order of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York having jurisdiction over a proceeding for the reorganization of this Corporation in the matter of In re Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corporation et. al., case number 01-40500, confirmed and approved on March 1, 2002.
SECOND: That the Certificate of Incorporation of this corporation be amended by adding the following sentence to Article Four:
“In accordance with Section 1123(a)(6) of the Bankruptcy code, the Corporation shall not issue non-voting equity securities prior to March 21, 2003.”
THIRD: That this Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation shall be effective on March 21, 2002.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said Loews USA Cinemas, Inc. has caused this certificate to be signed by Bryan Berndt, its Vice President, this 21st day of March, 2002, under penalty of perjury that this Certificate is the act and deed of this Corporation and that the facts stated herein are true.
| Loews USA Cinemas, Inc. | |
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| By: | /s/ BRYAN BERNDT |
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| Bryan Berndt |
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| Vice President |
STATE OF DELAWARE SECRETARY OF STATE DIVISION OF CORPORATIONS FILED 05:00 PM 03/21/2002 020188755 – 2150500 |
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