AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
VAN AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD.
The undersigned President and Secretary of VAN AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD.
does hereby certify:
That the Board of Directors of said Corporation, at a meeting duly
convened and held on the 12th day of October, 1999, adopted a resolution
to amend and restate the original Articles as follows:
Article I - NAME
The exact name of this corporation is:
VAN AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD.
Article II - REGISTERED OFFICE AND RESIDENT AGENT
The registered office and place of business in the State of
Nevada of this corporation shall be located at 1850 E. Flamingo Road, Suite
111, Las Vegas, Nevada 89119. The resident agent of the corporation is
DONALD J. STOECKLEIN, whose address is 1850 E. Flamingo Road, Suite 111,
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119.
Article III - DURATION
The Corporation shall have perpetual existence.
Article IV - PURPOSES
The purpose, object and nature of the business for which this
corporation is organized are:
(a) To engage in any lawful activity, (b) To carry on such
business as may be necessary, convenient, or desirable to accomplish
the above purposes, and to do all other things incidental thereto
which are not forbidden by law or by these Articles of Incorporation.
Article V - POWERS
This Corporation is formed pursuant to Chapter 78 of the Nevada
Revised Statutes. The powers of the Corporation shall be those powers
granted by 78.060 and 78.070 of the Nevada Revised Statutes under which
this corporation is formed. In addition, the corporation shall have the
following specific powers:
(a) To elect or appoint officers and agents of the corporation
and to fix their compensation; (b) To act as an agent for any
individual, association, partnership, corporation or other legal
entity; (c) To receive, acquire, hold, exercise rights arising out of
the ownership or possession thereof, sell, or otherwise dispose of,
shares or other interests in, or obligations of, individuals,
association, partnerships, corporations, or governments; (d) To
receive, acquire, hold, pledge, transfer, or otherwise dispose of
shares of the corporation, but such shares may only be purchased,
directly or indirectly, out of earned surplus; (e) To make gifts or
contributions for the public welfare or for charitable, scientific or
educational purposes.
Article VI - CAPITAL STOCK
Section 1. Authorized Shares. The total number of shares which
this corporation is authorized to issue is 50,000,000 shares of Common
Stock of $.001 par value and 10,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock of
$.001 par value. The authority of the Corporation to issue non-voting
convertible and/or non-voting non-convertible preferred shares
together with additional classes of shares may be limited by
resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation. Preferred
shares and additional classes of shares may be issued from time to
time as the Board of Directors may determine in their sole judgment
and without the necessity of action by the holders of Shares.
Section 2. Voting Rights of Stockholders. Each holder of the
Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock
standing in his name on the books of the corporation.
Section 3. Consideration for Shares. The Common Stock shall be
issued for such consideration, as shall be fixed from time to time by
the Board of Directors. In the absence of fraud, the judgment of the
Directors as to the value of any property or services received in full
or partial payment for shares shall be conclusive. When shares are
issued upon payment of the consideration fixed by the Board of
Directors, such shares shall be taken to be fully paid stock and shall
be non-assessable. The Articles shall not be amended in this
particular.
Section 4. Stock Rights and Options. The corporation shall have
the power to create and issue rights, warrants, or options entitling
the holders thereof to purchase from the corporation any shares of its
capital stock of any class or classes, upon such terms and conditions
and at such times and prices as the Board of Directors may provide,
which terms and conditions shall be incorporated in an instrument or
instruments evidencing such rights. In the absence of fraud, the
judgment of the Directors as to the adequacy of consideration for the
issuance of such rights or options and the sufficiency thereof shall
be conclusive.
Article VII - MANAGEMENT
For the management of the business, and for the conduct of the affairs
of the corporation, and for the future definition, limitation, and
regulation of the powers of the corporation and its directors and
stockholders, it is further provided:
Section 1. Size of Board. The number of the Board of Directors
shall be one (1). Such number may from time to time be increased or
decreased in such manner as prescribed by the Bylaws. Directors need
not be stockholders.
Section 2. Powers of Board. In furtherance and not in
limitation of the powers conferred by the laws of the State of Nevada,
the Board of Directors is expressly authorized and empowered:
(a) To make, alter, amend, and repeal the Bylaws subject to the
power of the stockholders to alter or repeal the Bylaws made by the
Board of Directors;
(b) Subject to the applicable provisions of the Bylaws then in
effect, to determine, from time to time, whether and to what extent,
and at what times and places, and under what conditions and
regulations, the accounts and books of the corporation, or any of
them, shall be open to stockholder inspection. No stockholder shall
have any right to inspect any of the accounts, books or documents of
the corporation, except as permitted by law, unless and until
authorized to do so by resolution of the Board of Directors or of the
stockholders of the Corporation;
(c) To authorize and issue, without stockholder consent,
obligations of the Corporation, secured and unsecured, under such
terms and conditions as the Board, in its sole discretion, may
determine, and to pledge or mortgage, as security therefore, any real
or personal property of the corporation, including after-acquired
property;
(d) To determine whether any and, if so, what part of the earned
surplus of the corporation shall be paid in dividends to the
stockholders, and to direct and determine other use and disposition of
any such earned surplus;
(e) To fix, from time to time, the amount of the profits of the
corporation to be reserved as working capital or for any other lawful
purpose;
(f) To establish bonus, profit-sharing, stock option, or other
types of incentive compensation plans for the employees, including
officers and directors, of the corporation, and to fix the amount of
profits to be shared or distributed, and to determine the persons to
participate in any such plans and the amount of their respective
participations.
(g) To designate, by resolution or resolutions passed by a
majority of the whole Board, one or more committees, each consisting
of two or more directors, which, to the extent permitted by law and
authorized by the resolution or the Bylaws, shall have and may
exercise the powers of the Board;
(h) To provide for the reasonable compensation of its own
members by Bylaw, and to fix the terms and conditions upon which such
compensation will be paid;
(i) In addition to the powers and authority hereinbefore, or by
statute, expressly conferred upon it, the Board of Directors may
exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be
exercised or done by the corporation, subject, nevertheless, to the
provisions of the laws of the State of Nevada, of these Articles of
Incorporation, and of the Bylaws of the corporation.
Section 3. Interested Directors. No contract or transaction
between this corporation and any of its directors, or between this
corporation and any other corporation, firm, association, or other
legal entity shall be invalidated by reason of the fact that the
director of the corporation has a direct or indirect interest,
pecuniary or otherwise, in such corporation, firm, association, or
legal entity, or because the interested director was present at the
meeting of the Board of Directors which acted upon or in reference to
such contract or transaction, or because he participated in such
action, provided that: (1) the interest of each such director shall
have been disclosed to or known by the Board and a disinterested
majority of the Board shall have, nonetheless, ratified and approved
such contract or transaction (such interested director or directors
may be counted in determining whether a quorum is present for the
meeting at which such ratification or approval is given); or (2) the
conditions of N.R.S. 78.140 are met.
Section 4. Name and Address. The name and post office addresses
of the Board of Directors which consists of one (1) person and who
shall hold office until his successors are duly elected and qualified,
is as follows:
NAME ADDRESS
RALPH MASSETTI 1850 E. Flamingo Rd #111
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Article VIII - PLACE OF MEETING; CORPORATE BOOKS
Subject to the laws of the State of Nevada, the stockholders and the
directors shall have power to hold their meetings, and the directors shall
have power to have an office or offices and to maintain the books of the
Corporation outside the State of Nevada, at such place or places as may
from time to time be designated in the Bylaws or by appropriate resolution.
Article IX - AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES
The provisions of these Articles of Incorporation may be amended,
altered or repealed from time to time to the extent and in the manner
prescribed by the laws of the State of Nevada, and additional provisions
authorized by such laws as are then in force may be added. All rights
herein conferred on the directors, officers and stockholders are granted
subject to this reservation.
Article X - LIMITED LIABILITY OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Except as hereinafter provided, all past, current and/or future
officers and directors of the corporation shall not be personally liable to
the corporation or its stockholders for damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director or officer. This limitation on personal liability shall
not apply to acts or omissions which involve intentional misconduct, fraud,
knowing violation of law, or unlawful distributions prohibited by Nevada
Revised Statutes Section 78.300.
The number of shares of the corporation outstanding and entitled to
vote on an amendment to the Articles of Incorporation is 3,217,500; that
the said changes and amendments have been consented to and approved by a
majority of the stockholders holding at least a majority of stock
outstanding and entitled to vote thereon at a meeting of the Shareholders
held October 8, 1999.
Dated: October 21, 1999
/s/ Jeanette Huntley
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JEANETTE HUNTLEY, President
/s/ Jeanette Huntley
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JEANETTE HUNTLEY, Secretary
STATE OF California_)
) SS:
COUNTY OF San Diego_)
On 10/21, 1999, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public,
JEANETTE HUNTLEY, who is the President and Secretary of Van American
Capital, Ltd. and who acknowledged to me that she executed the above
instrument on behalf of the Corporation.
/s/ Sharon Boyd
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NOTARY PUBLIC