EX-3.1.16 11 a2129352zex-3_116.htm EX-3.1.16

Exhibit 3.1.16

 

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

 

EQUINOX WHITE PLAINS ROAD–INC.

 

Under Section 402 of the Business Corporation Law.

 

The undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to Section 402 of the Business Corporation Law of the State of New York, does hereby certify and set forth:

 

FIRST:  The name of the corporation is EQUINOX WHITE PLAINS ROAD, INC.

 

SECOND:  The purposes for which the corporation is formed are:

 

To engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organised under the business corporation law, provided that the corporation is not formed to engage in any act or activity which requires the act or approval of any state official, department, board, agency or other body without such approval or consent first being obtained.

 

To carry on a general mercantile, industrial, investing and trading business in all its branches; to devise, invent, manufacture, fabricate, assemble, install, service, maintain, alter, buy, sell, import, export, license as licensor or licensee, lease as lessor or lessee, distribute, job, enter into, negotiate, execute, acquire and assign contracts in respect of, acquire, receive, grant, and assign licensing, arrangements, options, franchises, and other rights in respect of and generally deal in and with at wholesale and retail as principal, and as sales, business, special or general, agent, representative, broker, factor, merchant, distributor, jobber, advisor, or in any other lawful capacity goods wares, merchandise, commodities, and unimproved, improved, finished, processed and other real, personal and mixed property of any and all kinds, together with the components resultants, and by-products thereof.

 

To create, manufacture, contract for, buy, sell, import, export, distribute, job and generally deal in and with, whether at wholesale or retail, and the principal, agent, broker, factor, commission, merchant, licensor, licensee or otherwise, any and all kinds of goods, wares, and merchandise, and in connection therewith or independent thereof, to

 

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establish and maintain, by any manner or means, buying offices, distribution centers, specialty and other shops, stores, mail order establishments, concessions, leased departments, and any and all other departments, sites and locations necessary, convenient or useful in the furtherance of any business of the corporation.

 

To develop, experiment with, manufacture, fabricate, produce, assemble, buy, lease or otherwise acquire, hold, own, operate, use, install, equip, maintain, service, process, possess, repossess, remodel, recondition, transport, import, export, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of and generally to deal in and with any and all kinds of raw materials, products, manufactured articles and products, equipment, machinery, devices, systems, parts, tools and implements, apparatus, and goods, wares, merchandise and tangible property of every kind, used or capable of being used for any purpose whatsoever, and wheresoever located.

 

To acquire by purchase, subscription, underwriting or otherwise, and to own, hold for investment, or otherwise, and to use, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, exchange or otherwise dispose of real and personal property of every sort and description and wheresoever situated including shares of stock, bonds, debentures, notes, scrip, securities, evidences of indebtedness, contracts or obligations of any corporation or association, whether, domestic or foreign, or of any firm or individual or of the United States, or any state, territory or dependency of the United States, or any foreign country, or any municipality or local authority within or without the United States, and also to issue in exchange therefor, stocks, bonds or other securities or evidences of indebtedness of this corporation and while the owner or holder of any such property to receive, collect and dispose of the interest, dividends and income on or from such property and to possess and exercise in respect thereto all of the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including all voting powers thereon.

 

To construct, build, purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, equip, held, own, improve, develop, manage, maintain, control, operate, lease, mortgage, create, liens upon, sell, convey or otherwise dispose of and turn to account, any and all plants, machinery works, implements and things or property, real and personal, of every kind and description, incidental to connected with, or suitable, necessary or convenient for any of the purposes enumerated herein, including all or any part or parts of the properties, assets, business and goodwill of any persons, firms, associations or corporations.

 

The powers, rights and privileges provided in this certificate are not to be deemed to be in limitation of similar, other or additional powers, rights and privileges granted or permitted to a corporation by the Business Corporation Law, it being intended that this corporation shall have all rights, powers and privileges granted or permitted to a corporation by such statute.

 

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THIRD:  The office of the corporation is to be located in the County of Westchester, State of New York.

 

FOURTH:  The aggregate number of shares which the corporation shall have the authority to issue is Two Hundred (200) all of which shall be without par value.

 

FIFTH:  The Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the corporation upon whom process against it may be served.  The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the corporation served on him is:

 

Jeffrey Weinhaus, Esq.

910 East Boston Post Road

Mamaroneck, New York 10543

 

SIXTH:  The personal liability of directors to the corporation or its shareholders for damages for any breach of duty in such capacity is hereby eliminated except that such personal liability shall not be eliminated if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to such director establishes that his sets or omissions were in bad faith or involved intentional, misconduct or a knowing violation of law or that he personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which he was not legally entitled or that his acts violated Section 719 of the Business Corporation Law.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this certificate has been subscribed to this 27th day of May, 1998 by the undersigned who affirms that the statements made herein are true under the penalties of perjury.

 

 

 

/s/  Gerald Weinberg

 

 

GERALD WEINBERG

 

90 State Street

 

Albany, New York

 

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