ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
EVERGREEN PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
A nonprofit corporation
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
ARTICLE I
NAME
That the name of this corporation is:
EVERGREEN PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.,
That the purposes for which said corporation is formed are as follows to wit:
ARTICLE II
PURPOSES
(a) The specific and primary purposes of this corporation is to organize a recreational and management association for the common area property owners.
(b) The general purposes and powers are to acquire real property for it’s members on a co-operative basis, either by rental and lease or sale as the case may be, to make, enter into, perform and carry out contracts for constructing, building, altering, improving, repairing, manage and maintain buildings and recreation facilities, and any and all other property of every kind or description, real, personal and mixed, and wheresoever situated.
(c) To exercise any and all rights and powers which a nonprofit corporation may now or hereafter exercise, operating without profit and so that no part of it’s net earnings or assets shall ever be distributed as a dividend or inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
(d) To solicit, accept, hold and administer contributions by deed, gift, will, ordinance, statute or otherwise either in trust or otherwise, to own, hold, operate and administer real and personal property and generally to do all things necessary and proper to accomplish the purposes herein stated and permitted to like nonprofit corporations by law.
(e) Provided further, however:
(1) That assets or property held in trust for the corporation or by the corporation for it’s own corporate purposes as herein stated shall be segregated and identified as being so held, and shall not be held without disclosure of the fiduciary capacity in which they are held.
(2) That no substantial part of the activities of this corporation shall consist of carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the corporation shall not participate or intervene in any political campaign (including the publishing or distribution of statements) on behalf of any candidate for public office.
(3) That the corporation shall not engage in any transaction prohibited by Section 501 (c) of the United States Internal Revenue Code as now enacted or as it may hereafter be amended.
(4) That the corporation shall not apply accumulation of income in any manner which may subject it to denial of exemption as provided in Section 504 of the United States Internal Revenue Code as now enacted or as it may hereafter be amended.
(f) To borrow and lend money, but nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing the business of banking or as including the business purposes of a commercial bank, savings bank or trust company.
(g) The foregoing statement of purposes shall be construed as a statement of both purposes and powers, and the purposes and powers stated in each clause shall, except where otherwise expressed, be in nowise limited or restricted by reference to or inference from the terms or provisions of any other clause, but shall be regarded as independent purposes and powers.
(h) That not withstanding any of the above statements of purposes and powers, this corporation shall not, except to a insubstantial degree, engage in any activities or exercise any powers that are not in furtherance of the primary purposes herein stated, being a nonprofit, nonstock corporation.
ARTICLE III
PRINCIPAL OFFICE
That the principal office for the transaction of business of the corporation. is to be located in the County of Riverside, State of California.
ARTICLE IV
This corporation is organized pursuant to the General Nonprofit Corporation Law of the State of California and does not contemplate pecuniary gain or profit to the members thereof and it is organized for nonprofit purposes.
ARTICLE V
The authorized number: and qualifications of members of the corporation, the different classes of membership, if any, the property, voting and other rights and privileges of members, and their liability for dues and assessments and the method of collection thereof, and the refunds of unexpended funds to members, occupants of living units, or others shall be set forth in the By-Laws.
ARTICLE VI
The number of the corporation directors shall be five (5) and the names and addresses of those who are appointed to act until the first annual meeting of the members, or until the election of their successors, are:
(1) Willis A. Barnes 39732 Gibbel Road Hemet, Calif. 92343
(2) Noel C. Dickson 39768 Gibbel Road Hemet, Calif. 92343
(3) John L. Irvin 39730 Gibbel Road Hemet, Calif. 92343
(4) Glen A. Jorgensen 39762 Gibbel Road Hemet, Calif. 92343
(5) Eugene V. Lampkin 39756 Gibbel Road Hemet, Calif. 92343
The number of said directors may be increased or decreased from time to time (but in no event shall there be at any time less than three directors) by an amendment to these Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws of this corporation by it’s members. Officers shall be elected as provided for in the By-Laws.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the persons herein-above named as the first directors, have executed these Articles of Incorporation, This 16 day of February 1977
Willis A. Barnes
Noel C. Dickson
John L. Irvin
Glen A. Jorgensen
Eugene V. Lampkin
[Note: The original document was signed by those listed here; and notarized by Dorothy J. Weaver.]