BE IT KNOWN, That on this 1st day of the month of December, in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty Four: · BEFORE ME, a Notary Public, in and for washington Parish, Louisiana, personally came and appeared the several parties, all of the full age of majority, whose signatures are subscribed, who declared, in the presence of the undersigned competent witnesses, that, availing themselves of the provisions of Louisiana Revised Statutes (1950) 12:101-12:155, they do hereby organize a nonprofit corporation as defined in R.8. 12:101 (8). ARTICLE I. NAME The name of this corporation is Anti-Communist Christian Association. ARTICLE II. PURPOSES To provide for the preservation of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana, the Constitution of the United States of America, as originally written, to establish justice, insure® domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the wolfare of Christians and Christian civilization, and to secure the blessings of liberty against encroachment by communism. ARTICLE III. DURATION The corporation shall enjoy corporate existence for a period of ninety-nine (99) years from date hereof. The location and the post office address of the registered office of this corporation is 315 East Fifth Street, Bogalusa, Louisiana. ARTICLE V. REGISTERED AGENTS The full names and post office addresses of the corporation's registered agents are: Robert T. Rester P. O. Box 1160 Bogalusa, Louisiana Saxon Farmer 315 Bast Fifth Street Bogalusa, Louisiana ARTICLE VI. BASIS OF ORGANIZATION This corporation shall be organized without capital stock and membership may be evidenced by certificates of membership. All nambers must be eighteen (18) years of age and natural born citizens of the United States of America, sound of mind, sober in habits, there shall be no different classes of membership. ARTICLE VII. DIRECTORS The namas of the first directors, their post office addresses, and the terms of office are as follows: W. J. Williams Vornado, Louisiana Saxon Farmer 315 East Fifth Street. Lloyd Joiner Route 2, Box 270 Ponchatoula, Louisiana The number, qualifications, terms of office, manner of election, and powers and dutias of the directors, the time, place and manner of calling, giving notice of and conducting directors' meetings, and the number of directors which constitute a quorum, may be prescribed by the Articles or By-Laws. 98-436 0-68- -24 ARTICLE VIII. DUES AND ASSESSMENTS Each member of this corporation shall pay dues, quarterly, in the amount of Four and 50/100 ($4.50) Dollars each quarter. corporation, through its Board of Directors, may levy special assessments by a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the Board of Directors, and such special assessments shall be payable and collected in the same manner as is provided for duas. The nonpayment of dues or assessments upon reasonable notice shall authorize the cancellation or suspension of membership by, a vote of not less than two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the Board of Directors, provided that the Board of Directors may adopt from time to time such policy for the re-instatement of members expelled or suspended under this article, as it may deem advisable. ARTICLE IX. MEETINGS At least one meeting shall be held each month and it shall be the duty of the president to issue calls for meetings. Special meetings may be called at anytime by the president or Board of Directas. ARTICLE X. BY-LAWS The members of the Board of Directors shall have the power to make, amend and repeal By-Laws to govern this corporation, provided they are in accordance with and do not conflict with these articles. The Board of Directors, in making, amending and repealing By-Laws, must do so by a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the members of said Board. ARTICLE XI. The corporation may amend these Articles of Incorporation by a vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the Board of Directos. ARTICLE XII. The names and addresses of the incorporators of the corpora tion are: W. J. Williams Varnado, Louisiana Saxon Farmer 315 East Fifth Street Lloyd Joiner Route 2, Box 270 Ponchatoula, Louisiana TIIUS DONE AND PASSED in my office in Bogalusa, Washington Parish, Louisiana, in duplicate original, in the presence of Sydney H. Wheat and Jessie Merle Boone, competent witnesses, and me, Notary, after a due reading of the whole. |