Ex-3.9
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
AHI PROPERTIES I, INC.
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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" or the
"General Corporation Law"), hereby certifies that:
FIRST: The name of the corporation (hereinafter referred to as the
"Corporation") is AHI Properties I, Inc.
SECOND: The address of the registered office of the Corporation in the
State of Delaware is 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, Delaware
19808, County of New Castle; and the name of the registered agent of the
Corporation in the State of Delaware is Corporation Service 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 of stock which the Corporation shall
have authority to issue is one thousand five hundred (1,500) shares of common
stock, par value of $.001 per share.
FIFTH: The name and the mailing address of the incorporator is:
Jeffrey S. Tullman, Esq.
c/o Kane Kessler, P.C.
1350 Avenue of the Americas, 26th floor
New York, New York 10019
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 the provisions of
Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application 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 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 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
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Delaware shall otherwise require; provided, that no share of any such
class 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: No director of the Corporation shall have any personal liability to
the Corporation or to any of its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of
fiduciary duty as a director; provided, however, that this provision eliminating
such personal liability of a director shall not eliminate or limit the liability
of a director (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the
Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under
Section 174 of the General Corporation Law or (iv) for any transaction from
which the director derived an improper personal benefit. If the General
Corporation Law is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or
limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director
of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent
permitted by the General Corporation Law as so amended. Any repeal or
modification of this Article NINTH by the stockholders of the Corporation shall
not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation
existing at the time of such repeal or modification with respect to acts or
omissions occurring prior to such repeal or modification.
TENTH: The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted
by the General Corporation Law, as the same may be amended and supplemented,
indemnify any and all persons whom it shall have the power to indemnify under
the General Corporation Law from and against any and all of the expenses,
liabilities or other matters referred to in or covered by the General
Corporation Law, 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 his 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 a 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 May 14, 2002.
/s/ Jeffrey S. Tullman
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Jeffrey S. Tullman
Incorporator
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