EXHIBIT 3.I
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
NAPA NATIONAL BANCORP
FIRST
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The name of this corporation is:
Napa National Bancorp
SECOND
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The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful
act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the
General Corporation 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.
THIRD
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The name and address of this corporation's initial agent for
service of process is:
Alan G. Tait
1500 Third Street
Suite "D"
Napa, CA 94558
FOURTH
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(a) This corporation is authorized to issue two classes of
shares designated "Preferred Stock" and "Common Stock", respectively.
The number of shares of Preferred
Stock authorized to be issued is One Million (1,000,000) and the
number of shares of Common Stock authorized to be issued is Twenty
Million (20,000,000).
(b) The Preferred Stock may be divided into such number of
series as the board of directors may determine. The board of directors
is authorized to determine and alter the rights, preferences,
privileges and restrictions granted to and imposed upon the Preferred
Stock or any series thereof with respect to any wholly unissued class
or series of Preferred Stock, and to fix the number of shares of any
series of Preferred Stock and the designation of any such series of
Preferred Stock. The board of directors, within the limits and
restrictions stated in any resolution or resolutions of the board of
directors originally fixing the number of shares constituting any
series, may increase or decrease (but not below the number of shares
of such series then outstanding) the number of shares of any series
subsequent to the issue of shares of that series.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, for the purpose of forming this
corporation under the laws of the State of California I, the
undersigned incorporator, have executed these Articles of
Incorporation this 30th day of October, 1981.
/s/ Ronald W. Bachli
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RONALD W. BACHLI
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DECLARATION
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I declare that I am the person who executed the foregoing
Articles of Incorporation and that said instrument is my act and deed.
Executed at San Francisco, California, this 30th day of
October, 1981.
/s/ Ronald W. Bachli
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RONALD W. BACHLI