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EXHIBIT 3.6
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
GROUND ZERO INC.
The undersigned natural person of the age of eighteen (18) years or more
for the purpose of forming a corporation under The General and Business
Corporation Law of Missouri adopts the following Articles of Incorporation:
ARTICLE ONE
The name of the corporation is: GROUND ZERO INC.
ARTICLE TWO
The address, including street and number, if any, of the corporation's
initial registered office in this state is Goldstein & Vouga, P.C., 121 Hunter
Avenue, Suite 101, St. Louis, Missouri 63124, and the name of the initial
registered agent at such address is Steven Goldstein.
ARTICLE THREE
The aggregate number, class, and par value of shares that the corporation
shall have authority to issue shall be thirty thousand (30,000) shares of common
stock having a par value of One Dollar ($1.00) per share amounting in the
aggregate to Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00).
ARTICLE FOUR
No holder of shares of any class of stock of this corporation, either now
or hereafter authorized or issued, shall have any preemptive or preferential
right to subscribe for or purchase any shares of any class of stock of this
corporation, either now or herafter authorized whether issued for cash, property
or services, or to subscribe for or purchase obligations, bonds, notes,
debentures, other securities or stock convertible into stock of any class of
this corporation, other than such right, if any, as the Board of Directors in
its discretion may from time to time determine, and at such prices as the Board
of Directors may from time to time fix.
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ARTICLE FIVE
The name and place of residence of the incorporator are as follows:
NAME STREET CITY AND STATE
Steven Goldstein 121 Hunter Avenue St. Louis, Missouri 63124
Suite 101
712 Swarthmore Ln. University City, MO 63130
ARTICLE SIX
The number of directors to constitute the first Board of Directors is four
(4). Thereafter, the number of directors shall be fixed by, or in the manner
provided in, the bylaws of the corporation. Any changes shall be reported to the
Secretary of State within thirty (30) calendar days of such change.
ARTICLE SEVEN
No shareholder shall have the right to cumulative voting in the election
of directors.
ARTICLE EIGHT
The duration of the corporation is perpetual.
ARTICLE NINE
The corporation is formed to do any and all legal acts permitted to be
done by corporations organized under and pursuant to "The General and Business
Corporation Law of Missouri."
ARTICLE TEN
The power to make, alter, amend, or repeal bylaws of the corporation
shall be vested exclusively in the Board of Directors.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, these Articles of Incorporation have been signed this
31st day of December, 1997.
/s/ Steven Goldstein
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Steven Goldstein
STATE OF MISSOURI )
) SS.
COUNTY OF ST. LOUIS )
I, Donna Honnoll, a notary public, do hereby certify that on the 31st day
of December, 1997, personally appeared before me Steven Goldstein, who being by
me first duly sworn, declared that he is the person who signed the foregoing
document as incorporator, and that the statements therein contained are true.
/s/ Donna L. Honnoll
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Notary Public
My commission expires:
DONNA L. HONNOLL
Notary Public-Notary Seal
STATE OF MISSOURI
St. Louis County
My Commission Expires: May 24, 2001