Exhibit 3.9
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
BROOK HOLLOW PROPERTIES, INC.
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We, the undersigned natural persons of the age of twenty one years or
more, at least two of whom are citizens of the State of Texas, acting as
incorporators of a corporation under the Texas Business Corporation Act, do
hereby adopt the following Articles of Incorporation for such corporation.
ARTICLE ONE
The name of the corporation is BROOK HOLLOW PROPERTIES, INC.
ARTICLE TWO
The period of its duration is perpetual.
ARTICLE THREE
The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized are:
To purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, and to own, subdivide,
lease, sell and otherwise deal in real estate, within towns, cities or
villages, and their suburbs not extending more than two miles beyond their
corporate limits, and to accumulate and lend money for that purpose.
To construct, erect, alter, repair and maintain shopping centers,
houses, apartment houses, buildings, and other types of structures.
To own, manage, operate, rent, lease, sell and otherwise deal in
shopping centers, apartment houses, buildings, and other types of
structures.
To manufacture, purchase, or otherwise acquire, invest in, own,
mortgage, pledge, sell, assign and transfer or other-
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wise dispose of, trade, deal in and deal with goods, wares and merchandise
and personal property of every class and description.
ARTICLE FOUR
The aggregate number of shares which the corporation shall have
authority to issue is one million (1,000,000) of the par value of One Dollar
($1.00) each.
ARTICLE FIVE
The corporation will not commence business until it has received for
the issuance of its shares consideration of the value of One Thousand Dollars
($1,000.00), consisting of money, labor done, or property actually received,
which sum is not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
ARTICLE SIX
No holder of any stock of the corporation shall be entitled, as a
matter of right, to purchase or subscribe for any part of any stock which the
corporation is authorized to issue.
ARTICLE SEVEN
Cumulative voting is expressly prohibited. At each election of
directors every shareholder entitled to vote at such election shall have the
right to vote, in person or by proxy, the number of shares owned by him for as
many persons as there are directors to be elected and for whose election he has
a right to vote; no shareholder shall be entitled to cumulate his Votes by
giving one candidate as many votes as the number of such directors multiplied by
his shares shall equal, or by distributing such votes on the
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same principle among any number of such candidates.
ARTICLE EIGHT
The post office address of its initial registered office is 715 Avenue
H East, Arlington, Texas, and the name of its initial registered agent at such
address is Ralph B. Rogers.
ARTICLE NINE
The number of directors constituting the initial board of directors is
three (3). The names and addresses of the persons who are to serve as directors
until the first annual meeting of the shareholders or until their successors
are elected and qualified are:
Name Street Address
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Ralph B. Rogers 715 Avenue H East Arlington, Texas
John B. Rogers 715 Avenue H East Arlington, Texas
Russell E. Kibbe, Jr. 715 Avenue H East Arlington, Texas
ARTICLE TEN
The names and addresses of the incorporators are:
Name Street Address
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Harold B. Pressley, Jr. 1900 Republic National Bank Bldg. Dallas, Texas
Gordon Fogg 1900 Republic National Bank Bldg. Dallas, Texas
Charles G. Purnell 1900 Republic National Bank Bldg. Dallas, Texas
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands, this 21st day of
June, 1962.
/s/ Harold B. Pressley, Jr.
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Harold B. Pressley, Jr.
/s/ Gordon Fogg
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Gordon Fogg
/s/ Charles G. Purnell
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Charles G. Purnell
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
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COUNTY OF DALLAS )
I, JOAN MASSENGALE, a Notary Public, do hereby certify that on this
21st day of June, 1962, personally appeared before me HAROLD B. PRESSLEY, JR.,
GORDON FOGG, and CHARLES G. PURNELL, who each being by me first duly sworn,
severally declared that they are the persons who signed the foregoing document
as incorporators, and that the statements therein contained are true.
/s/ Joan Massengale
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Notary Public in and for
Dallas County, Texas
JOAN MASSENGALE
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