RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

OF

JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, INC.

(A Virginia Non-Stock Corporation)

 

ARTICLE I

 

The name of the corporation is:

 

JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, INC.

 

ARTICLE II

The corporation is constituted so as to attract substantial support from contributions, directly or indirectly, and has not been formed for pecuniary profit or financial gain, and no part of the assets, income, or net earnings of the corporation is distributable to, or inures to the benefit of, its directors or officers except to the extent permitted under the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. 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 of behalf of any candidate for public office. The corporation shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on by a corporation exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law). In the event of liquidation or dissolution of the corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, no contributor, director or officer shall be entitled to any distribution or division of its remaining property, assets or proceeds, and the balance of all money and other property received by the corporation from any source, after the payment of all debts and obligations of the corporation, shall be used or distributed within the intent of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law) and regulations applicable thereto at the time of such dissolution.

The corporation shall be operated for the purpose of promoting the welfare, efficiency, service to the public, and objectives of James Madison University and to encourage private gifts of money, securities, land, or other property of whatever character for such purposes, and to that end to take, hold, receive and enjoy any gift, grant, devise or bequest, for the benefit of James Madison University in the manner designated, for the general purposes and improvement of James Madison University, and to accept, execute and administer any trust in which it may have an interest under the terms of the instrument creating the trust. To do any other act or thing incidental to or connected with the foregoing purpose or in the advancement thereof, but not for pecuniary profit or financial gain of its directors or officers except as permitted under the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law.

ARTICLE III

The corporation shall have no members.

ARTICLE IV

Directors shall elect their own successors at each annual meeting of the board of directors.

ARTICLE V

The number of directors shall be fixed by the By-Laws or, in the absence of a by-law fixing the number, shall be twenty (20).

 

Restated and approved 7/28/77 by Board of Directors.