Purposes :
The purpose for which the corporation is formed is as follows :
To engage in all activities, which will directly or indirectly impact on the public consciousness the omnipresence of the scourge of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS); to solicit, collect, receive, and otherwise raise money to inform the general public regarding AIDS; to support, promote, foster and encourage research on the cause, early detection, care and treatment of AIDS; to promote, foster and encourage research on all aspects of AIDS including the origins, causes and effects and development of high technology AIDS care therapies and diagnostic programs; to create, establish and conduct programs designed to increase organized community education efforts with respect to AIDS prevention and the available treatments therefore; to plan, formulate and implement programs, projects and activities in cooperation and in coordination with governmental agencies and other community organizations with reference to AIDS in seeking and obtaining available medical treatment and generally to advance and improve the health, physical and mental welfare of the victims of AIDS by all available means and methods. However, nothing herein shall authorize this corporation to practice the profession of medicine or any other profession to be licensed by Title VIII of the Education Law.
In furtherance of its corporate purposes, the corporation shall have all the general powers enumerated in Section 202 of the Non-Profit Corporation law, together with the power to solicit grants and contributions for the corporate purposes.
Nothing herein shall authorize this corporation, directly or indirectly, to engage in the Not-for-Profit Corporation law, Section 404(b)-(V)
The corporation shall be a Type 3 Corporation pursuant to Section 201 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of these articles, the corporation is organized exclusively for one or more of the purposes as specified in section 501 (C) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and shall not carry on any activities not permitted to be carried on by a corporation exempt from Federal income tax under IRC Section 501 (C) (3) or corresponding provisions of any subsequent Federal tax laws.
No part of the net earnings of the corporation shall inure to the benefit of any member, trustee, director, officer of the corporation or any private individual (except that reasonable compensation may be paid for services rendered to or for the corporation), and no member trustee, officer of the corporation or any private individual shall be entitled to share in the distribution of any dissolution of the corporation.
No substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall be producing propaganda, or otherwise attempt to influence legislation (except as otherwise provided by Internal Revenue Code Section 501(h)) or participating in, or intervene in (including the publication or distribution of statements), any political campaign on behalf of any candidates for public office.
In the event of dissolution, all of the remaining assets and property of the corporation shall after necessary expenses thereof be distributed to another organization exempt under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal revenue Code of 1986, or corresponding provisions of any subsequent Federal tax laws, or to the Federal government, or state or local government for public purposes, subject to an order of a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
Any taxable year in which the corporation is a private foundation as described in Section 509(a) of the Internal revenue Code of 1986, the corporation shall distribute its income for said period at such time and manner as not to subject it to tax under Section 4942 of the Code; and the corporation shall not (a) engage in any act of self-dealing as defined in Section 4941(d) of the Code; (b) retain any excess business holdings as defined in Section 4943(c) of the Code; (c) make any investments in such manner as to subject the corporation to tax under Section 4944 of the Code; or (d) make any taxable expenditures as defined in Section 4945(d) of the Code or corresponding provisions of any subsequent Federal tax laws.
The office of the corporation is to be located in the County of New York.
The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the corporation upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the corporation served upon him is
Yoritaro Inada, D.V.M., Ph.D.
421 West 113th Street, Suite 1107
New York, NY 10025
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this certificate has been subscribed to this 14th day of July, 1993 by the undersigned who affirms that the statements made herein are true under penalties of perjury.
GERALD WEINBERG, Incorporator
90 State Street, Albany, New York |
