EXHIBIT 3.27
Published on November 5, 1998
Exhibit 3.27
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
BG HOLDINGS II, INC.
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is BG Holdings II, Inc.
(hereinafter the "Corporation").
SECOND: The address of the registered office of the Corporation in
the State of Delaware is 1013 Centre Road, in the City of Wilmington, County of
New Castle. The name of its registered agent at that address is Corporation
Service Company.
THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act
or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as set forth in Title 8 of the Delaware
Code (the "GCL").
FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation
shall have authority to issue is 1,000 shares of common Stock, each having a par
value of one penny ($.01).
FIFTH: The name and mailing address of the Sole incorporator is as
follows:
Deborah M. Reusch
P.O. Box 636
Wilmington, DE 19899
SIXTH : The following provisions are inserted for the management of
the business and the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, and for further
definition, limitation and regulation of the powers of the corporation and of
its directors and stockholders:
(1) The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be
managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.
(2) The directors shall have concurrent power with the
stockholders to make, alter, amend, change, add to or repeal the
Bylaws of the Corporation.
(3) The number of directors of the Corporation shall be as from
time to time fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the Bylaws of the
Corporation. Election of directors need not be by written ballot
unless the Bylaws so provide.
(4) No director shall be personally liable to the Corporation
or any of its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of
fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach
of the director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its
stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which
involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii)
pursuant to Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law or
(iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper
personal benefit. Any repeal or modification of this Article SIXTH by
the stockholders of the Corporation shall not adversely affect any
right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing at the
time of such repeal or modification with respect to acts or omissions
occurring prior to such repeal or modification.
(5) In addition to the powers and authority hereinbefore or by
statute expressly conferred upon them, the directors are hereby
empowered to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things
as may be exercised or done by the Corporation, subject, nevertheless,
to the provisions of the GCL, this Certificate of incorporation, and
any Bylaws adopted by the stockholders; provided, however, that no
Bylaws hereafter adopted by the stockholders shall invalidate any
prior act of the directors which would have been valid if such Bylaws
had not been adopted.
SEVENTH: Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the
State of Delaware, as the Bylaws may provide. The books of the Corporation may
be kept (subject to any provision contained in the GCL) outside the State of
Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the
Board of Directors or in the Bylaws of the Corporation.
EIGHTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or
repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the
manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon
stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.
I, THE UNDERSIGNED, being the Sole Incorporator hereinbefore named,
for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the GCL, do make this
Certificate, hereby declaring and certifying that this is my act and deed and
the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set my hand this
21st day of June 1995.
/s/ Deborah M. Reusch
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Deborah M. Reusch
Sole Incorporator
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CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE OF REGISTERED AGENT
AND
REGISTERED OFFICE
BG Holdings II, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under and
by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, DOES HEREBY
CERTIFY:
The present registered agent of the corporation is Corporation Service
Company, and the present registered office of the corporation is in the county
of New Castle.
The Board of Directors of BG Holdings II, Inc. adopted the
following resolution on the 24th day of January 1997.
Resolved, that the registered office of BG Holdings II, Inc.
in the state of Delaware be and it hereby is changed to Corporation Trust
Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle,
and the authorization of the present registered agent of this corporation be and
the same is hereby withdrawn, and THE CORPORATION TRUST COMPANY shall be and is
hereby constituted and appointed the registered agent of this corporation at the
address of its registered office.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, BG Holdings II, Inc. has caused this statement to be
signed by Donald C. Lewis, its Vice President,* this 31st day of January 1997.
/s/ Donald C. Lewis
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Donald C. Lewis
Vice President
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(Title)
*Any authorized officer or the chairman or vice-chairman of the Board of
Directors may execute this certificate.
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