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Title:

Certificate of Incorporation

Entities:

General Electric Co.

Date:

2007

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10KB total

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$38

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GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Certificate of Incorporation
(As amended through April 25, 2007)
 
Table of Contents
 
Certificate of Incorporation
 
Section 1. Name
 
Section 2. Purposes
 
Section 3. Authorized Shares
 
Section 4.  Office
 
Section 5. By-laws
 
Section 6. Directors
 
Section 7. Agent for Process
 
 
 

 

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Certificate of Incorporation
of
General Electric Company
*
 
 
Section 1. Name 
 
The name of the corporation is General Electric Company.
 
Section 2. Purposes 
 
The purposes of the corporation are as follows:
 
A. To manufacture, process, construct, develop, assemble, and produce in any way, to sell, lease, supply, and distribute in any way, to purchase, lease, mine, extract, and acquire in any way, to own, operate, experiment with, deal in, service, finance, and use in any way, equipment, apparatus, appliances, devices, structures, materials, processes, information, tangible and intangible property, services and systems of every kind, nature and description:
 
(1) for any electrical, or energy-conversion, application or purpose, including but not limited to the production, transmission, distribution, storage, regulation, control and use in any manner of electricity, or in any way connected with or deriving from any electrical, or energy-conversion, application or purpose, and,
 
(2) for any other application or purpose, whatsoever, including but not limited to industrial, utility, consumer, defense, governmental, scientific, educational, cultural, financial, recreational, agricultural, transportation,
 

 
* Text of Certificate of Incorporation as set forth in Restated Certificate of Incorporation filed by the Department of State of New York on April 30, 1965. Section 3.A was subsequently amended on April 29, 1971, to change the authorized number of common shares from 105,000,000 shares with a par value of $5 to 210,000,000 shares with a par value of $2.50; on December 20, 1976, to change the authorized number of common shares, par value $2.50, from 210,000,000 shares to 251,500,000 shares; on April 28, 1983, to change the authorized number of common shares, par value $2.50, from 251,500,000 shares to 550,000,000 shares, par value $1.25; on April 23, 1987, to change the authorized number of common shares, par value $1.25, from 550,000,000 shares to 1,100,000,000 shares, par value $0.63, and to change the authorized number of preferred shares, par value $1, from 2,000,000 to 50,000,000 shares; on April 28, 1994, to change the authorized number of common shares, par value $0.63, from 1,100,000,000 shares to 2,200,000,000 shares, par value $0.32; on April 28, 1997, to change the authorized number of common shares, par value $0.32, from 2,200,000,000 shares to 4,400,000,000 shares, par value $0.16; and on April 27, 2000, to change the authorized number of common shares, par value $0.16, from 4,400,000,000 shares to 13,200,000,000 shares with a par value of $0.06. Section 3.C. relating to preemptive rights was added by amendment effective May 2, 1975. Section 6 relating to Directors was amended effective April 28, 1988, to limit their personal liability to the corporation and its shareholders; effective June 15, 1993, to set the minimum number of directors at ten and remove the upper limit; and effective April 25, 2007, to implement the election of director

 

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