EX-3.37 53 d46094a1exv3w37.htm CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF AZTAR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION exv3w37
 

EXHIBIT 3.37

      
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     I, HARRIET SMITH WINDSOR, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT “AZTAR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION” IS DULY INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE AND IS IN GOOD STANDING AND HAS A LEGAL CORPORATE EXISTENCE NOT HAVING BEEN CANCELLED OR DISSOLVED SO FAR AS THE RECORDS OF THIS OFFICE SHOW AND IS DULY AUTHORIZED TO TRANSACT BUSINESS.
     THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN FILED:
     CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION, FILED THE TWENTIETH DAY OF AUGUST, A.D. 1993, AT 4:15 O’CLOCK P.M.
     AND I DO HEREBY FURTHER CERTIFY THAT THE AFORESAID CERTIFICATES ARE THE ONLY CERTIFICATES ON RECORD OF THE AFORESAID CORPORATION, “AZTAR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION”.
     AND I DO HEREBY FURTHER CERTIFY THAT THE ANNUAL REPORTS HAVE BEEN FILED TO DATE.
     AND I DO HEREBY FURTHER CERTIFY THAT THE FRANCHISE TAXES HAVE BEEN PAID TO DATE.





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  /s/ Harriet Smith Windsor    
 
 
 
Harriet Smith Windsor, Secretary of State
   
AUTHENTICATION:      5120897
DATE:      10-17-06


 


 

      
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     I, HARRIET SMITH WINDSOR, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THE ATTACHED ARE TRUE AND CORRECT COPIES OF ALL DOCUMENTS ON FILE OF “AZTAR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION” AS RECEIVED AND FILED IN THIS OFFICE.
     THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED:
     CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION, FILED THE TWENTIETH DAY OF AUGUST, A.D. 1993, AT 4:15 O’CLOCK P.M.
     AND I DO HEREBY FURTHER CERTIFY THAT THE AFORESAID CERTIFICATES ARE THE ONLY CERTIFICATES ON RECORD OF THE AFORESAID CORPORATION, “AZTAR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION”.





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  /s/ Harriet Smith Windsor    
 
 
 
Harriet Smith Windsor, Secretary of State
   
AUTHENTICATION:      5115860
DATE:      10-16-06


 


 

STATE OF DELAWARE
SECRETARY OF STATE
DIVISION OF CORPORATIONS
FILED 04:15 PM 08/20/1993
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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
AZTAR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
     FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Aztar Development Corporation (hereinafter the “Corporation”).
     SECOND: The address of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at that address is The Corporation Trust Company.
     THIRD: The purpose, of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as set forth in Title 8 of the Delaware Code (the “GCL”).
     FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 1000 shares of Common Stock, each having a par value of one penny ($.01).
     FIFTH: The name and mailing address of the Sole Incorporator is as follows:
     
Name   Address
Deborah M. Reusch
  P.O. Box 636
 
  Wilmington, DE 19899
     SIXTH: The following provisions are inserted for the management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation, and for further definition, limitation and regulation of the powers of the Corporation and of its directors and stockholders:
   (1) The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.
   (2) The directors shall have concurrent power with the stockholders to make, alter,

 


 

amend, change, add to or repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation.
   (3) The number of directors of the Corporation shall be as from time to time fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the By-Laws of the Corporation. Election of directors need not be by written ballot unless the By-Laws so provide.
   (4) No director shall be personally liable to the corporation or any of its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) pursuant to Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. Any repeal or modification of this Article SIXTH by the stockholders the Corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification with respect to acts or omissions occurring prior to such repeal or modification.
   (5) In addition to the powers and authority hereinbefore or by statute expressly conferred upon them, the directors are hereby empowered to 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 GCL, this Certificate of incorporation, and any By-Laws adopted by the stockholders; provided, however, that no By-Laws hereafter adopted by the stockholders shall invalidate any prior act of the directors which would have been valid if such By-Laws had not been adopted.
     SEVENTH: Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the By-Laws

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may provide. The books of the Corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the GCL) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or in the By-Laws of the Corporation.
     EIGHTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.
     I, THE UNDERSIGNED, being the Sole Incorporator hereinbefore named, for the purpose of forming a Corporation pursuant to the GCL, do make this Certificate, hereby declaring,and certifying that this is my act and deed and the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of August, 1993.
         
 
  /s/ Deborah M. Reusch    
 
 
 
Deborah M. Reusch
   
 
                           Sole Incorporator    

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