Articles of Incorporation of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association of Education Fund, Inc.
[As Amended July 2012][Text digitized in April 2012]
I, the undersigned, for the purpose of incorporating and organizing a non-profit corporation under The General Corporation Law of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify as follows:
FIRST: The name of the corporation is LEGACY OF JUSTICE FOUNDATION (hereinafter called the “Corporation”).
SECOND: The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Kansas is 719 S.W. Van Buren Street, Suite 222, Topeka, Kansas 66603. The name of its registered agent at such address is Charlotte Ann Krebs.
THIRD: The purpose of the Foundation shall be to:
(a) support the mission of preserving and enhancing the civil justice system in Kansas in order to protect the rights of Kansans;
(b) develop resources in support of the mission through such means as an annual fund drive, planned giving programs, an endowment, and/or such other avenues as may from time to time be approved by the Board of Directors.
(c) use and distribute these resources to further the mission though such means as:
1. Developing funding mechanisms to aid in supporting projects which can
(i) contribute to preserving and enhancing the civil justice system,
(ii) protect and promote the independence of the judiciary;
(iii) promote education and other activities to continually raise the standard of client representation by the plaintiff’s bar;
(iv) enhance understanding of the civil justice system, the 7th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and/or the rights of Kansans;
(v) provide scholarships to worthy students at law schools in Kansas;
(vi) build community supports and services for vulnerable populations to help insulate them against the possibility of catastrophic injury or loss due to the actions of others, and/or
(vii) such other purposes as may from time to time be approved by the Board of Directors; and
2. Providing a venue for Foundation programming and activities, and for other not-for-profit groups’ activities which champion similar causes and related goals.
(d) engage in any and all lawful activity which may be necessary, suitable, desirable or proper for the furtherance, accomplishment, fostering or attainment of the above purposes.
FOURTH: No part of the net earnings of the corporation shall inure to the benefit of or be distributable to its members, directors, officers or other private persons, except that the corporation shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in Article THIRD hereof. No substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall be the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the corporation shall not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these articles, the corporation shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on (1) by a corporation exempt from Federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provisions of any future United States Internal Revenue law) or, (2) by a corporation, contributions to which are deductible under Section 170(c))(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue law).
Upon the dissolution of the corporation, the board of directors shall, after paying or making provisions for the payment of all of the liabilities of the corporation, shall transfer, assign and convey all of the assets of the corporation to an exempt organization or organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue law), as the board of directors shall determine. Any of such assets not so disposed of shall be disposed of by the District Court of the county in which the principal office of the corporation has been located, exclusively for such purposes or to such organization or organizations, as said Court shall determine, which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes.
FIFTH: The Corporation shall not have any authority to issue shares of capital stock.
SIXTH: The name and address of the incorporator are as follows:
NAME ADDRESS
Keith R. Henry 819 North Washington
Junction City, Kansas 66441
SEVENTH: The powers of the incorporator shall terminate upon the filing of these Articles of Incorporation. The names and address of the persons who are to serve as directors of the Corporation until the first annual meeting of the members or until their successors are elected and qualified are as follows:
Michael E. Callen Patricia Scalia Carpenter
9800 Metcalf, #585 P.O. Box 3542
Overland Park, Kansas Topeka, Kansas 66601
Gordon M. Penny Jerry K. Levy
P.O. Box 148 112 West 6th, #210
Medicine Lodge, Kansas 67104 Topeka, Kansas 66603
Artie Vaughn James L. Crabtree
301 West Central 8500 W. 63rd, #210
Wichita, Kansas 67202 Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66202
John Hamilton Gary D. McCallister
3401 Harrison 3715 SW 29th
Topeka, Kansas 66614 Topeka, Kansas 66604
Edgar W. Dwire Edward Hund, Jr.
305 West Central 200 West Douglas, #830
Wichita, Kansas 67202 Wichita, Kansas 67202
George Mallon Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius
9th & Armstrong, Box F 112 West 6th Street, Suite #300
Kansas City, Kansas 66117 Topeka, Kansas 66603
Tom Kelly Keith R. Henry
111 W. 13th, Box 579 819 North Washington
Hays, Kansas 67601 Junction City, Kansas 66441
EIGHTH: The number, qualifications and terms of office of the directors of the corporation shall be determined in accordance with the bylaws of the corporation as amended from time to time.
NINTH: The board of directors of the Corporation is expressly authorized to make, alter, amend, or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.
TENTH: Any director or any officer of the Corporation elected or appointed by the board of directors may be removed at any time in such manner as shall be provided in the bylaws of the Corporation.
ELEVENTH: The Corporation shall have one or more classes of membership. The designation of such classes, and the qualification, rights, and method of acceptances of members of each class, shall be designated in the bylaws of the Corporation.
TWELFTH: These Articles of Incorporation may be amended by the affirmative vote of more than sixty percent (60%) of all directors then serving, at any meeting of the directors duly called for that purpose pursuant to notice duly given in accordance with the bylaws of the corporation.
______(Signed)_________________
Keith R. Henry
STATE OF KANSAS )
) SS.
COUNTY OF SHAWNEE )
Before me, a Notary Public in and for said county and state, personally appeared before me, Keith R. Henry, who is known to me to be the same person who executed the foregoing Articles of Information and duly acknowledged the execution of same.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal, this Thirty-First day of December, 1981.
________(Signed) _________________
Jo Ann Centlivre, Notary Public
My appointment expires: Sept. 25, 1985
