Exhibit 3.15
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
PSS DELAWARE COMPANY 4, INC.
The undersigned, a natural person, for the purpose of organizing a
corporation for conducting the business and promoting the purposes hereinafter
stated, under the provisions and subject to the requirements of the laws of the
State of Delaware (particularly Chapter 1, Title 8 of the Delaware Code and the
acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and known, identified, and
referred to as the "General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware"), hereby
certifies that:
FIRST: The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the
"corporation") is PSS Delaware Company 4, Inc.
SECOND: The address, including street, number, city, and county, of the
registered office of the corporation in the State of Delaware is 1013 Centre
Road, City of Wilmington 19805, County of New Castle; and the name of the
registered agent of the corporation in the State of Delaware at such address is
Corporation Service Company.
THIRD: The nature of the business and the purposes to be conducted and
promoted by the corporation, are to conduct any lawful business, to promote any
lawful purpose, and 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 of stock which the corporation shall
have authority to issue is One Thousand Five Hundred (1,500). The par value of
each of such shares is $.01 dollars. All such shares are of one class and are
shares of Common Stock.
FIFTH: The name and the mailing address of the incorporator are as
follows:
NAME MAILING ADDRESS
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Saleem William Raza 3231 S. E. 6th Avenue
Topeka, Kansas 66607
SIXTH: The corporation is to have perpetual existence.
SEVENTH: 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 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 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 consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said
compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by
the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the
creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of
stockholders, of this corporation, as the case may be, and also on this
corporation.
EIGHTH: For the management of the business and for the conduct of the
affairs of the corporation, and in further definition, limitation, and
regulation of the powers of the corporation and of its directors and of its
stockholders or any class thereof, as the case may be, it is further provided:
1. The management of the business and the conduct of the
affairs of the corporation shall be vested in its Board of Directors.
The number of directors which shall constitute the whole Board of
Directors shall be fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the Bylaws.
The phrase "whole Board" and the phrase "total number of directors"
shall be deemed to have the same meaning, to wit, the total number of
directors which the corporation would have if there were no vacancies.
No election of directors need be by written ballot.
2. After the original or other Bylaws of the corporation
have been adopted, amended, or repealed, as the case may be, in
accordance with the provisions of Section 109 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and, after the corporation
has received any payment for any of its stock, the power to adopt,
amend, or repeal the Bylaws of the corporation may be exercised by the
Board of Directors of the corporation; provided, however, that any
provision for the classification of directors of the corporation for
staggered terms pursuant to the provisions of subsection (d) of Section
141 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware shall be
set forth in an initial Bylaw or in a Bylaw adopted by the stockholders
entitled to vote of the corporation unless provisions for such
classification shall be set forth in this certificate of incorporation.
3. Whenever the corporation shall be authorized to issue
only one class of stock, each outstanding share shall entitle the
holder thereof to notice of, and the right to vote at, any meeting of
stockholders. Whenever the corporation shall be authorized to issue
more than one class of stock, no outstanding share of any class of
stock which is denied voting power under the provisions of the
certificate of incorporation shall entitle the holder thereof to the
right to vote at any meeting of stockholders except as the provisions
of paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of Section 242 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware shall otherwise require;
provided, that no share of any such class
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which is otherwise denied voting power shall entitle the holder thereof
to vote upon the increase or decrease in the number of authorized
shares of said class.
NINTH: The personal liability of the directors of the corporation is
hereby eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by the provisions of paragraph
(7) of subsection (b) of Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented.
TENTH: The corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by the
provisions of Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented, indemnify any and all
persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said section from and
against any and all of the expenses, liabilities, or other matters referred to
in or covered by said section, and the indemnification provided for herein shall
not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be
entitled under any Bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested
directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person's official capacity and
as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue
as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee, or agent and
shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, and administrators of such
person.
ELEVENTH: From time to time any of the provisions of this certificate
of incorporation may be amended, altered, or repealed, and other provisions
authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be
added or inserted in the manner and at the time prescribed by said laws, and all
rights at any time conferred upon the stockholders of the corporation by this
certificate of incorporation are granted subject to the provisions of this
Article ELEVENTH.
Signed on the 26th day of August, 1999
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Incorporator
Saleem William Raza
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