EX-3.1 2 k04237exv3w1.htm RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION exv3w1
 

Exhibit 3.1
Restated Articles of Incorporation
of
CHAMPION ENTERPRISES, INC.
ARTICLE I
          The name of the corporation is Champion Enterprises, Inc.
ARTICLE II
          The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized is to engage in any activity within the purposes for which corporations may be organized under the Business Corporation Act of Michigan.
ARTICLE III
          The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall have authority to issue is 125,000,000 shares, of which 120,000,000 shares shall be Common Stock of the par value of $1.00 each (“Common Stock”), and 5,000,000 shares shall be Preferred Stock of no par value (“Preferred Stock”).
Preferred Stock
          The Board of Directors is authorized at any time and from time to time to provide for the issuance of shares of Preferred Stock in one or more series with such voting powers, full or limited, or without voting powers, and with such designations, preferences and relative participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof as shall be expressed in the resolution or resolutions establishing such series and providing for the issuance thereof adopted by the Board of Directors and as are not expressed in these Articles of Incorporation as hereafter amended, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following:
  (1)   the designation and number of shares of such series;
 
  (2)   the dividend rate of such series, the conditions and dates upon which such dividends shall be payable, the preference or relation of such dividends to dividends payable on any other class or classes of capital stock of the corporation, and whether such dividends shall be cumulative or noncumulative;
 
  (3)   whether the shares of such series shall be subject to redemption by the corporation, and, if made subject to such redemption, the times, prices, rates, adjustments and other terms and conditions of such redemption;
 
  (4)   the terms and amount of any sinking or similar fund provided for the purchase or redemption of the shares of such series;

 

 

  (5)   whether the shares of such series shall be convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock or other securities of the corporation or of any other corporation, and, if provision be made for conversion or exchange, the times, prices, rates, adjustments and other terms and conditions of such conversion or exchange;
 
  (6)   the extent, if any, to which the holders of the shares of such series shall be entitled to vote as a class or otherwise with respect to the election of directors or otherwise;
 
  (7)   the restrictions and conditions, if any, upon the issue or reissue of any additional Preferred Stock ranking on a parity with or prior to such shares as to dividends or upon dissolution;
 
  (8)   the rights of the holders of the shares of such series upon the dissolution of, or upon the distribution of assets of, the corporation, which rights may be different in the case of voluntary dissolution than the case of involuntary dissolution; and
 
  (9)   any other relative rights, preferences or limitations of shares of such series consistent with this Article and applicable law.
          The powers, preferences and relative participating, optional and other special rights of each series of Preferred Stock, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, if any, may differ from those of any and all other series at any time outstanding. All shares of any one series of Preferred Stock shall be identical in all respects with all other shares of such series, except that shares of any one series issued at different times may differ as to the dates from which dividends thereon shall be cumulative. The terms of any series of Preferred Stock may be amended without consent of the holders of any other series of Preferred Stock or of the Common Stock, provided such amendment does not adversely affect the holders of such other series of Preferred Stock or the Common Stock.
          Shares of any series of Preferred Stock which have been issued and reacquired in any manner and are not held as treasury shares, including shares redeemed by purchase (whether through the operation of a retirement or sinking fund or otherwise), will have the status of authorized and unissued Preferred Stock and may be reissued as a part of the series of which they were originally a part or may be reclassified into and reissued as a part of a new series.
Common Stock
          Each holder of Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held of record on all matters on which shareholders generally are entitled to vote. Subject to the provisions of law and the rights of the Preferred Stock and any other class or series of stock having a preference as to dividends over the Common Stock then outstanding, dividends may be paid on the Common Stock at such times and in such amounts as the Board of Directors shall determine. Upon the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the corporation, after any preferential amounts to be distributed to the holders of the Preferred Stock and any other class or series of stock having a preference over the Common Stock then outstanding have been paid or declared and set apart for payment, the holders of the Common Stock shall be entitled to receive all the remaining assets of the corporation available for distribution to its shareholders ratably in proportion to the number of shares held by them, respectively.

 

 

ARTICLE IV
          The address of the registered office is:
30600 Telegraph Road
Bingham Farms, Michigan 48025
          The mailing address of the registered office is:
30600 Telegraph Road
Bingham Farms, Michigan 48025
          The name of the resident agent at the registered office is The Corporation Company.
ARTICLE V
          No director of the corporation shall be personally liable to the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that the foregoing shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director for any of the following: (i) a breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders; (ii) acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or knowing violation of law; (iii) a violation of Section 551(1) of the Michigan Business Corporation Act; (iv) a transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit; or (v) an act or omission occurring before March 1, 1987. If the Michigan Business Corporation Act hereafter is amended to authorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the corporation, in addition to the limitation on personal liability contained herein, shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by the amended Michigan Business Corporation Act. No amendment or repeal of this Article V shall apply to or have any effect on the liability or alleged liability of any director of the corporation for or with respect to any acts or omissions of such director occurring prior to any such amendment or repeal.
ARTICLE VI
          When a compromise or arrangement or a plan of reorganization of this corporation is proposed between this corporation and its creditors or any class of them or between this corporation and its shareholders or any class of them, a court of equity jurisdiction within the state, on application of a receiver appointed for the corporation, may order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors or of the shareholders or class of shareholders to be affected by the proposed compromise or arrangement or reorganization, to be summoned in such manner as the court directs. If a majority in number representing 3/4 in value of the creditors or class of creditors, or of the shareholders or class of shareholders, to be affected by the proposed compromise or arrangement or a reorganization, agree to a compromise or arrangement or a reorganization of this corporation as a consequence of the compromise or arrangement, the compromise or arrangement and the reorganization, if sanctioned by the court to which the application has been made, shall be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, or on all the shareholders or class of shareholders, and also on this corporation.