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Free Sample California Articles of Incorporation

Below you will find a sample California articles of incorporation and/or related documents. 

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California Articles of Incorporation (For Profit Corporation)
 
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 
OF
 
NAME OF CORPORATION
 
 
 
            I, the undersigned Incorporator, being a natural person of full age, for the purpose of forming a corporation under and pursuant to the provisions of the laws of the State of California, do hereby adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:
 
ARTICLE I
NAME
 
            The name of the corporation is ______________________.
 
ARTICLE II
PURPOSE
 
            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 California other than the banking business, the trust company business, or the practice of a profession permitted to be incorporated by the California Corporations Code.
 
ARTICLE III
INITIAL AGENT
 
            The name and address in the State of California of this corporation’s initial agent for service of process is_____________, _________________________, __________, CA ___________.
 
ARTICLE IV
CAPITAL
 
            The corporation is authorized to issue only one class of shares of stock; and the total number of shares that this corporation is authorized to issue is ___________shares.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ARTICLE V
 
SHAREHOLDER ACTION
 
 Action without a meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of the shareholders may be taken without a meeting by written action signed by all shareholders entitled to vote.
 
 
           
 
ARTICLE VI
BOARD ACTION
 
            The Board of Directors shall take action by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors present at a duly held meeting, except as required by law.
 
ARTICLE VII
DIRECTOR LIABILITY
 
            The liability of the directors of the corporation for monetary damages shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permissible under California law.
 
 
ARTICLE VIII
INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
 
            The Corporation is authorized to indemnify the directors and officers of the corporation to the fullest extent permissible under California law.
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have subscribed my name this                _              ,
 
 
                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                    NAME, Incorporator
 


 

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