2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .030   Articles of incorporation -- What to contain.

279.030 Articles of incorporation -- What to contain. (1) The articles of incorporation shall set forth: (a)  The name of the corporation, which shall be such as to distinguish it from any other corporation. (b)  The purpose for which it is formed. (c)  The place, including the county, where its principal office will be located. (d)  A reasonable description of the territory in which its operations are to be conducted. (e)  The number of directors. (f)  The names and post office addresses of the directors who are to manage the affairs of the corporation for the first year of its existence, or until the first meeting called to elect directors, or until the successors of the first directors are elected and have qualified. (g)  The period limited for the duration of the corporation, or that the corporation is to be perpetual. (h)  If the corporation is organized without capital stock, the terms upon which members may be admitted and the terms upon which their membership shall terminate. (i)  If the corporation is organized with capital stock, the amount of the stock, the number of shares into which it is divided and the par value. (j)  If the capital stock is divided into common and preferred stock, as it may be, the number of shares to which preference is granted and the number of shares to which no preference is granted, and the nature and definite extent of the preference and privileges granted to each. (2) The articles of incorporation may contain any other lawful provision that the incorporators choose to insert for the purpose of regulating the business and affairs of the corporation, for the purpose of creating, defining, limiting or regulating the rights, powers and duties of the corporation and its board of directors and members, and the exercise of any such powers, or for the purpose of creating or defining the rights and privileges of the members of the corporation among themselves, including separation of members into classes or districts and providing for representation of each class or district on the board of directors. Effective: June 21, 1974 History: Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 38, sec. 2, effective June 21, 1974. -- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 11, sec. 1, effective June 16, 1972. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 883j-4.