ARTICLES
OF INCORPORATION
OF
THE INNIS ARDEN CLUB, INC.
KNOW
ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, the undersigned, D. R. Drew, Hugh
H. Russell and L. A. Pelton, all being citizens of the United States
and over the age or twenty-one years, have voluntarily associated
ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under
and by virtue of the Uniform Business Corporation Act of the State
or Washington, and do hereby certify as follows:
ARTICLE
I.
The Name
of the Corporation is and shall be
THE INNIS
ARDEN CLUB, INC.
ARTICLE
II.
The objects
and purposes for which this Corporation is formed are as follows:
(a)
To establish, conduct and maintain a club or clubs for social, educational,
athletic, recreational and community purposes and, in connection therewith,
to initiate, sponsor and conduct social, educational, athletic, recreational
and community activities of every kind and character, including without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the initiating, sponsoring
and conducting of games, tournaments, contests, hobby groups, dances,
parties, schools, study groups, classes for teaching the arts, kindergartens,
community and neighborhood gatherings and meetings, gardening, lectures,
shows, theatrical performances, and any other lawful activity.
(b)
To engage in the business of operating restaurants, lunch rooms, stores
for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise of every kind and description,
bars and other places for the sale or serving of liquor, dance halls,
and any other lawful enterprise or undertaking.
(c)
To purchase, or otherwise acquire, and to construct, maintain and
operate roads, bridges, street lighting systems, sewer systems, water
systems, fire protection apparatus and equipment, recreation and athletic
grounds, parks, play grounds, bathing and swimming beaches, tennis
courts, club houses, bath houses, gardens and grounds.
(d)
To carry on any other business, social, commercial or otherwise, which
may seem to the Corporation capable of being conveniently carried
on in connection with any branch of the Corporation's business or
calculated directly or indirectly to enhance the value of or to render
profitable any of the Corporation's property or rights or to further
and promote the business and purposes of the Corporation.
(e)
To purchase, lease, own, or otherwise acquire, and to sell, lease
or otherwise dispose of real estate, personal property and any and
all interests, fees and titles in real or personal property, as may
be necessary, convenient or useful in carrying on its corporate purposes.
(f)
To purchase, subscribe for, or in any manner acquire, to sell, transfer
or in any manner dispose of, and to exercise all the rights of individual
natural persons with respect to: (1) Bonds, mortgages, debentures,
notes, obligations, contracts and evidences or indebtedness of, and
claims, demands and choses in action against individuals, firms, corporations,
public or municipal corporations, the Government of the United States
and of any state or territory thereof; (2) Shares of stock of, and
interests in corporations, firms and associations of every kind.
(g)
To borrow money and to lend and advance money or give credit to such
persons, firms, corporations and associations as may be deemed advisable
and upon such terms and securities as may be deemed advisable.
(h)
To enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts of every kind
for any lawful purpose, without limit as to amount, with any person,
firm, association or corporation.
(i)
To draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue promissory
notes, bills of exchange, warrants and other negotiable or transferable
instruments.
(j)
To borrow money, to issue bonds, debentures, or obligations, secured
or unsecured, of the Corporation from time to time, for moneys borrowed
or in payment for property purchased or otherwise in connection with
any operations of the Corporation; to secure any or the same by mortgage
or mortgages upon or by deed or deeds or trust of, or by pledge of,
any or all or the property, real and personal, of the Corporation
wherever situated, acquired or to be acquired; and to sell or otherwise
dispose of any or all such bonds, debentures, or obligations in such
manner and upon such terms as may be deemed advisable.
(k)
To issue, purchase, hold, sell, transfer, re-issue or cancel shares
of its own capital stock or its own securities or obligations in the
manner and to the extent now or hereafter authorized or permitted
by the laws of the State of Washington.
(l)
In general, to do any or all of the things hereinbefore set forth,
and such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment
of the objects and purposes of the Corporation or any of them, as
principal, factor, agent, contractor or otherwise, either alone or
in conjunction with any person, firm, association or corporation;
and in carrying on its business and for the purpose or attaining or
furthering any of its objects, to enter into, make, perform and carry
out contracts with any person, partnership, association, combination,
organization, entity, corporation, government, governmental subdivision,
or other body whatsoever; and to do such acts and things, and to exercise
any and all such powers to the same extent as a natural person might
or could lawfully do to the full extent authorized or permitted to
a corporation under any laws that may be now or hereafter applicable
or available to the Corporation.
The
foregoing clauses shall each be construed as purposes, objects and
powers, and the matters expressed in each clause shall, except as
otherwise expressly provided, be in nowise limited by reference to,
or inference from terms or any other clause, but shall be regarded
as independent purposes, objects and powers and the enumeration of
specific purposes, objects and powers shall not be construed to limit
or restrict in any manner the meaning of the general terms or the
general powers of the Corporation, nor shall the expression of one
thing be deemed to exclude another, although it be of like nature,
not expressed.
The
purposes for which the Corporation is formed and the business or objects
to be transacted, promoted and carried on by it are any one or more
of the acts and things herein set forth, and for the accomplishment
or these purposes and the transaction, promotion and carrying on of
said business and objects, the Corporation shall have and may exercise
all powers conferred upon it by the laws or the State or Washington
now or hereafter in effect.
ARTICLE
III.
The duration
of the existence of this Corporation shall be perpetual
ARTICLE
IV.
The location
of the registered office of the Corporation shall be in the County
of King, State of Washington, at Room 1106, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bldg.,
Seattle, Washington, and its post office address shall be Room 1106,
1411 Fourth Avenue Bldg., Seattle 1, Washington.
ARTICLE
V.
The
capital stock or the Corporation shall consist of one thousand (1,000)
shares of common stock, all without par value.
Shares
of stock shall not be issued or transferred to any person who is not
a bona ride and beneficial owner of one or more building sites in
any of the following properties, namely:
(a)
Tracts eighty-six (86) and eighty-seven (87) of the unrecorded plat
of The Highlands, as particularly described in the deed from The Highlands,
Inc. to W. E. Boeing dated July 20, 1909, filed for record with the
Auditor of King County, Washington March 30, 1911 under file number
739019 and recorded on pages 347-51 of Volume 780 of Deeds, records
of King County, Washington.
(b)
The tract described in the deed from The Highlands, Inc. to W. E.
Boeing dated August 31, 1917 filed for record with the Auditor of
King County, Washington, October 13, 1917 under file number 1166589
and recorded on pages 538-40 or Volume 991 of Deeds, records of King
County, Washington.
(c)
Tract eighty-five (85) of the unrecorded plat of The Highlands, as
particularly described in the deed from John Harrington Edwards and
Florence H. Edwards, his wife, to William E. Boeing, dated November
10, 1920, filed for record with the Auditor of King County, Washington,
November 18, 1920 under file number 1469360 and recorded on pages
146-47 of Volume 1129 of Deeds, records of King County, Washington.
(d)
Innis Arden, an addition to King County, Washington, as shown by plat
thereof recorded in Volume 37 of Plats, at pages 25 and 26, records
of King County, Washington.
(e)
Innis Arden No. 2, an addition to King County, Washington, as shown
by plat thereof recorded in Volume 41 of Plats, at pages 20, 21 and
22, records of King County, Washington.
(f)
Innis Arden No. 3, an addition to King County, Washington as shown
by plat thereof recorded in Volume 46 of Plats, at pages 42, 43, 44
and 45, records of King County, Washington.
(g)
An addition which may be known as Innis Arden No. 4 or by any other
name which is not yet platted but which will be embraced within the
northeast quarter (NE1/4), and the northeast quarter (NE1/4) or the
northwest quarter (NW1/4) of section thirteen (13), township twenty-six
north, range three (3) east of the Willamette Meridian and the southeast
quarter (SE1/4) and the east half (E1/2) of the southwest quarter
(SW1/4) of section twelve (12) township twenty-six (26) north, range
three (3) east of the Willamette Meridian, less certain portions platted
as Innis Arden No. 3.
As used
herein, the term "building site" is as defined in the Restrictions
or Innis Arden, King County Auditor's File No. 3181336, the Restrictions
of Innis Arden No. 2, King County Auditor's File No. 3226288, the
Restrictions or Innis Arden No. 3, King County Auditor's File No.
3896280, and the restrictions on the above described area which may
be called Innis Arden No. 4, or by any other name, as the same may
hereafter be filed with the King County Auditor.
There
shall not be issued to any person nor may any person own or vote (except
as proxy for another) a greater number or shares of stock than the
number of lots owned by him in said properties. Fractional shares
may be issued with respect to fractional lot ownerships. When any
shareholder or the Corporation shall cease to be the owner or any
such building site in one of said properties, he shall likewise cease
to be the owner of the share or fraction of share of stock issued
with respect to said building site, and such share or fraction of
share shall, as a matter of course and without further action, pass
to and become the property or the person to whom title to said building
site has passed; provided, that if such transferee advises the Corporation
in writing that he declines to accept the transfer or said share,
then said share shall pass to and become the property or the Corporation,
without cost to the Corporation, and shall be held as treasury stock
subject to such disposition as the Board of Directors shall determine.
A shareholder
shall be entitled to a certificate signed by: (1) the President or
Vice President and (2) the Treasurer or Secretary certifying the number
of shares owned by him. Each certificate shall indicate the lot and
block number of the building site or sites to which it corresponds.
The
Secretary of the Corporation shall have exclusive custody and possession
of certificates for all allotted shares. A shareholder entitled to
a certificate, in lieu or possession thereof, shall receive an appropriate
receipt, also indicating the lot and block number of the building
site or sites to which it corresponds, signed on behalf of the Corporation
by the Secretary.
When
title to a building site or sites, and thereby title to a share or
shares, shall be transferred, the receipt of the transferor, who thereby
ceases to be a shareholder of a share or of shares corresponding to
a building site or sites transferred, immediately and without further
action shall be totally null and void.
When
title to a building site or sites, and thereby title to a share or
shares, shall be transferred, the transferee, who thereby becomes
a shareholder entitled to a certificate of his share or shares, shall
call upon the Secretary or the Corporation and, upon presentation
of evidence of his entitlement to a certificate, he shall sign an
appropriate endorsement of transfer and a special power of attorney
printed on the reverse side of the certificate to which he is entitled,
which shall grant to the Secretary of the Corporation the power by
delivery to transfer title to the certificate to the person who thereafter
may become entitled thereto. The Secretary of the Corporation, after
the transferee has so endorsed his certificate, shall sign and deliver
to the transferee the receipt described hereinabove.
A shareholder
shall be permitted to examine and transcribe his certificate by arranging
therefore with the Secretary of the Corporation at a reasonable time
and under reasonable circumstances, but no shareholder shall be permitted
to remove a certificate from the custody of the Secretary or the Corporation.
Without
action by or consent of the Shareholders, the Board of Directors may
issue the common stock of the Corporation, or any part thereof, from
time to time for such consideration in cash, other property, tangible
or intangible, or necessary services actually rendered to the Corporation
as may be fixed from time to time by said Board, and any and all such
shares so issued, when the consideration therefore as fixed by the
Board of Directors has been fully paid, delivered or rendered, shall
be full paid stock and not liable for any further cost or assessment
thereon.
ARTICLE
VI.
The amount
of paid-in capital with which the Corporation shall begin business
is Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
ARTICLE
VII.
The
business of this Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors,
the number, qualifications, terms of office, manner of election, time
and place of meetings and the powers and duties of such directors
to be prescribed in the By-Laws of the Corporation, provided that
the number of directors shall not be less than three nor more than
nine.
The
first directors of this Corporation, all of whom are citizens of the
United States, and their respective post office addresses are as follows:
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Name
|
Post
Office Address
|
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D.R.
Drew
|
Room
1106, 1411 Fourth Ave. Bldg, Seattle 1, Washington
|
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Hugh
Russell
|
Room
1106, 1411 Fourth Ave. Bldg, Seattle 1, Washington
|
|
L.A.
Pelton
|
Room
1106, 1411 Fourth Ave. Bldg, Seattle 1, Washington
|
The term
for which said first directors shall serve shall be until March 5,
1951, or until their respective successors are elected and qualified.
The authority
to make and alter the By-Laws of the Corporation is hereby expressly
vested in the Board of Directors of the Corporation subject to the
power of the shareholders to change or repeal such By-Laws and provided
always that the Board of Directors shall not make or alter any By-Laws
fixing their qualifications, classifications, term of office or compensation.
ARTICLE
VIII.
The names
and respective post office addresses of each of the incorporators
and the number of shares subscribed by each and the class of shares
(there being only one such class) which each subscribed is as follows:
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Name
|
Post
Office Address
|
No.
of Shares
Subscribed
|
|
D.R.
Drew
|
Room
1106, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bldg,
Seattle 1, Washington
|
1
|
|
Hugh
H. Russell
|
Room
1106, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bldg,
Seattle 1, Washington
|
1
|
|
L.A.
Pelton
|
Room
1106, 1411 Fourth Avenue Bldg,
Seattle 1, Washington
|
1
|
IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, we, the said D. R, DREW, and L. A. PELTON, have hereunto
set our hands and seals in triplicate this 17th day of May, 1950.
STATE
OF WASHINGTON
COUNTY OF KING
On this
17th day of May, 1950, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public
in and for the State or Washington, duly commissioned and sworn, personally
appeared D. R. DREW, HUGH H. RUSSELL and L. A. PELTON, to me known
to be the individuals described in and who executed the foregoing
Articles of Incorporation of The Innis Arden Club, Inc., and acknowledged
to me that they signed the said instrument as their free and voluntary
act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.
WITNESS
my hand and official seal hereto affixed the day and year in this
certificate above written.