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EXHIBIT 3.01
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NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY
(a Wisconsin corporation)
Incorporated November 21, 1901
R E S T A T E D A R T I C L E S O F I N C O R P O R A T I O N
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(Effective Date: May 6, 1998)
"RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION"
"The following Restated Articles of Incorporation, duly adopted pursuant to the
authority and provisions of Chapter 180 of the Wisconsin Statutes, supersede and
take the place of the existing Restated Articles of Incorporation and amendments
thereto:
"Article 1. The name of the corporation shall be Northern States Power
Company.
"Article 2. The period of existence shall be perpetual.
"Article 3. The business and purposes for which said corporation is
formed are: To manufacture, produce, purchase, or in any manner acquire, and to
sell, market, and distribute gas and its by-products and residual products for
light, heat, power and other purposes; to manufacture, generate, produce, buy,
and in any manner acquire, and to sell, market and distribute electricity for
light, heat, power, and other purposes; to construct, maintain, and operate
street and electric railways; to construct, maintain, and operate water works
for the purpose of supplying municipalities, private consumers, and others with
water for any and all purposes whatsoever; to furnish signals by electricity or
otherwise; to supply steam and hot water for heating and other purposes; to own,
operate, manage, and control plants and equipment for the production,
transmission, delivery, and furnishing of heat, light, water, and power to and
for the public; to manufacture, buy, sell, rent, and deal in apparatus and
appliances used or useful in, or calculated directly or indirectly to
promote the consumption of gas, water, or electricity; to purchase or in any
manner acquire, to own and hold, and to sell, exchange, or in any manner dispose
of stocks, bonds, mortgages, and other securities; to buy, sell, exchange, and
deal in all kinds of real property; and to construct, erect, purchase, or in
any manner acquire, to own, hold, and operate, and to sell, exchange, lease,
encumber, and in any manner dispose of, gas works, water works, steam plants,
hot water plants, hydraulic works, hydroelectric works, electric works, gas
distributing systems, water distributing systems, steam distributing systems,
electric distributing systems and transmission lines, signal transmission
systems, and machinery apparatus, appliances, facilities, rights, privileges,
franchises, ordinances, and all such real and personal property as may be
necessary, useful, or convenient in carrying on the business of procuring or
producing and distributing electricity, gas, water, steam, hot water, and
signals, or in the construction, maintenance, and operation of street and
electric railways. The business of the company may be carried on in any part of
the States of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota.
"Article 4. The number of shares which it shall have authority to issue
shall be One Million (1,000,000) shares of common stock, and the par value of
each share shall be One Hundred Dollars ($100). At all meetings of the
shareholders of the corporation, the holders of common stock shall be entitled
to one (1) vote for each share of common stock held by them.
"Article 5. The address of the registered office at the time of
adoption of these restated articles is 100 North Barstow Street, Eau Claire,
Wisconsin 54701.
"Article 6. The name of the registered agent at such address at the
time of adoption of these restated articles is J. A. Noer.
"Article 7. The number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall
be fixed by the Bylaws, but shall not be less than three.
"Article 8. These articles may be amended in the manner authorized by law at
the time of amendment."