EXHIBIT 3.1(a)
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
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COAXIAL COMMUNICATIONS OF CENTRAL OHIO, INC.
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(Name of Corporation)
The undersigned, a majority of whom are citizens of the United States,
desiring to form a corporation, for profit, under Sections 1701.01 et. seq. Of
the Revised Code of Ohio, do hereby certify:
FIRST. The name of said corporation shall be Coaxial Communications of
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Central Ohio, Inc.
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SECOND. The place in Ohio where its principal office is to be located is
3770 E. Livingston Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, 43227 in Franklin County.
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(City, Village or Township)
THIRD. The purposes for which it is formed are:
To buy, sell, install, service, repair and maintain television receivers,
radio receivers, record players, and combinations thereof and parts,
accessories, articles, materials, machinery, equipment and property.
To buy, sell, install, service, repair and maintain appliances, machinery
and devices, including household and commercial equipment and parts,
accessories, materials, articles, machinery and equipment. To maintain the
operations of communication systems, including cable television and radio.
To buy, sell, install, repair, service and maintain, television, radio,
electronic, electrical, and mechanical, appliances, devices, apparatus and
equipment, and any articles, materials, parts, accessories, machinery, equipment
and property.
To purchase or otherwise acquire, lease as lessee, invest in, hold, use,
lease as lessor, encumber, sell, exchange, transfer, and dispose of property of
any description or any interest therein.
To acquire, hold, use, sell, assign, lease, grant licenses in respect of,
mortgage or otherwise dispose of letters patent of the United States or any
foreign country, patent rights, licenses and privileges, inventions,
improvements and processes, copyrights, trademarks and tradenames, relating to
or useful in connection with any business of this corporation.
To acquire by purchase, subscription or otherwise, and to receive, hold,
own, guarantee, sell, assign, exchange, transfer, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise
dispose of or deal in and with any of the shares of the capital stock, or any
voting trust certificates in respect of the shares of capital stock, scrip,
warrants, rights, bonds, debentures, notes, trust receipts, and other
securities, obligations, choses in action and evidences of indebtedness or
interest issued or created by any corporations, joint stock companies,
syndicates, associations, firms, trusts or persons, public or private, or by the
government of the United States of America or by any foreign government, or by
any foreign government, or by any state, territory, province, municipality or
other political subdivision or by any governmental agency, and as owner thereof
to possess and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership,
including the right to execute consents and vote thereon, and to do any and all
acts and things necessary or advisable for the preservation, protection,
improvement and enhancement in value thereof.
To enter into, make and perform contracts of every kind and description
with any person, firm, association, corporation, municipality, county, state,
body politic or government or colony or dependency thereof.
To purchase or otherwise acquire all or any part of the business, good
will, rights, property and assets, and to assume all or any part of the
liabilities of any corporation, association, partnership or individual engaged
in any business in which any corporation organized under section 1701.01 et.
seq. Of the Revised Code of Ohio is entitled to engage.
To borrow money, and issue, sell, and pledge its notes, bonds, and other
evidences of indebtedness, and secure any of its obligations by mortgage,
pledge, or deed of trust of all or any of its property, and guarantee or secure
obligations of any person.
To purchase, hold, sell and transfer the shares of its own capital stock to
the extent permitted by law but no such purchase may be made when there is
reasonable ground for believing that the corporation is unable, or, by such
purchase, may be rendered unable to satisfy its obligations and liabilities.
Ton conduct its business, and to have an maintain one or more offices,
within and without the State of Ohio and in all other states and territories, in
the District of Columbia, in all dependencies, colonies, or possessions of the
United States of America and in foreign countries; and to purchase, or otherwise
acquire, hold, own, equip, improve, manage, operate, promote, finance, sell,
convey, mortgage or otherwise dispose of real and personal property in all such
states and places, to the extent that the same may be permissible under the laws
thereof.
To carry on any other lawful business and to do any and everything
necessary, suitable, convenient or proper for the accomplishment of any of the
purposes or the attainment of any one or all of the objects hereinbefore
enumerated or incidental to the powers herein named or for the enhancement of
the value of the properties of the corporation or which shall at any time appear
conducive thereto or expedient, either as holder of, or as interested in, any
property or otherwise; to have all the rights, powers, and privileges now of
hereafter conferred by the laws of the State of Ohio upon corporations organized
under sections 1701.01 et. seq. of the Revised Code of Ohio or under any act
amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or substituted therefor.
The objects and purposes specified in the foregoing clauses shall, except
where otherwise expressed, be in nowise limited or restricted by reference to,
or inference from the terms of any other clause in these articles of
incorporation, but the objects and purposes specified in each of the foregoing
clauses of this article shall be regarded as independent objects and purposes.
FOURTH. The number of shares which the corporation is authorized to have
outstanding is five hundred (500), all of which shall be with a par value of One
Dollar ($1.00) each.
FIFTH. The amount of stated capital with which the corporation shall begin
business is Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have hereunto subscribed our names, this 12th
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day of December, 1979.
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Coaxial Communication of Central Ohio, Inc.
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(Name of Corporation)
/s/ Dennis J. McGillicuddy
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Dennis J. McGillicuddy
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