EXHIBIT 3.1
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
Security Devices International Inc.
1. The name of the corporation is: Security Devices International Inc.
2. The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is: Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is: The Corporation Trust Company.
3. The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted is: To engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
To manufacture, purchase or otherwise acquire, invest in, own, mortgage, pledge, sell, assign and transfer or otherwise dispose of, trade, deal in and deal with goods, wares and merchandise and personal property of every class and description.
To acquire, and pay for in cash, stock or bonds of this corporation or otherwise, the good will, rights, assets and property, and to undertake or assume the whole or any part of the obligations or liabilities or any person, firm, association or corporation.
To acquire, hold, use, sell, assign, lease, grant licenses in respect of, mortgage or otherwise dispose of letters patent of the United States or any foreign country, patent rights, licenses and privileges, inventions, improvements and processes, copyrights, trademarks and trade names, relating to or useful in connection with any business of the corporation.
To acquire by purchase, subscription or otherwise, and to receive, hold own, guarantee, sell, assign, exchange, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of or deal in and with any of the shares of the capital stock, or any voting trust certificates in respect of the shares of capital stock, scrip, warrants, rights, bonds, debentures, notes, trust receipts, and other securities, obligations, choses in action and evidence of indebtedness or interest issued or created by any corporations, joint stock companies, syndicates, associates, firms, trusts or persons, public or private, or by the government of the United State of America, or by any foreign government, or by any state, territory, province, municipality or other political subdivision or by any governmental agency, and as owner thereof to possess and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to execute consents and vote thereon, and to do any and all acts and things necessary or advisable for the preservation, protection, improvement and enhancement in value thereof.
To borrow or raise money for any of the purposes of the corporation and, from time to time without limit as to amount, to draw, make, accept, endorse, execute and issue promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, warrants, bonds, debentures and other negotiable or non-negotiable instruments and evidence of indebtedness, and to secure the payment of any thereof and of the interest thereon by mortgage upon or pledge, conveyance or assignment in trust of the whole or any part of the property of the corporation, whether at the time owned or thereafter acquired, and to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of such bonds or other obligations of the corporation for its corporate purposes.
To purchase, receive, take by grant, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise lease, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, improve, employ, use and otherwise deal in and with real or personal property, or any interest therein, wherever situated, and to sell, convey, lease, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or mortgage or pledge, all or any of the corporation's property and assets, or any interest therein, wherever situated.
In general, to possess and exercise all the powers and privileges granted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware or by any other law of Delaware or by this Certificate of Incorporation together with any powers incidental thereto, so far as such powers and privileges are necessary or convenient to the conduct, promotion or attainment of the business or purposes of the corporation.
The business and purposes specified in the foregoing clauses shall, except where otherwise expressed, be in nowise limited or restricted by reference to, or inference from, the terms of any other clause in this Certificate of Incorporation, but the business and purposes specified in each of the foregoing clauses of this article shall be regarded as independent business and purposes.
4. The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall have authority to issued is: 10,000 common shares and the par value of each of such shares is: .01
5. The name and mailing address of each incorporator is as follow:
Name | Mailing Address | |
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Sheldon Kales | 464 Old Orchard Grove | |
Toronto, Ontario | ||
Canada M5M 2G4 |
The name and mailing address of each person who is to serve ad a director until the first annual meeting of the stockholders or until a successor is elected and qualified, is as follows:
Name | Mailing Address | |
---- | --------------- | |
Sheldon Kales | 464 Old Orchard Grove | |
Toronto, Ontario | ||
Canada M5M 2G4 |
6. The corporation is to have perpetual existence.
7. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the board of directors is expressly authorized:
To make, alter or repeal the by-laws of the corporation.
To authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon the real and personal property of the corporation.
To set apart out of any of the funds of the corporation available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and to abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created.
To designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the corporation. The board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. The by-laws may provide that in the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the board of directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the board of directors, or in the by-laws of the corporation, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the board of directors in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to the following matters: (i) approving or adopting, or recommending to the stockholders, any action or matter expressly required by the Delaware General Corporation Law to be submitted to stockholders for approval or (ii) adopting, amending or repealing any bylaw of the corporation.
When and as authorized by the stockholders in accordance with law, to sell, lease or exchange all or substantially all of the property and assets of the corporation, including its good will and its corporate franchises, upon such terms and conditions and for such consideration, which may consist in whole or in part of money or property including shares of stock in, and/or others ecurities of, any other corporation or corporations, as its board of directors shall deem expedient and for the best interests of the corporation.
8. Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the by-laws of the corporation shall provide.
Meeting of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the by-laws may provide. The books of the corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the statutes) 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 by-laws of the corporation.
Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this corporation, as the case may be, and also on this corporation.
9. 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.
10. A director of the corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or 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) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived any improper personal benefit.
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, being each of the incorporators hereinbefore named, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, do make this Certificate, hereby declaring and certifying that this is our act and deed and the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set our hands this 1st day of March, 2005.
/s/ Sheldon Kales |
Sheldon Kales, Incorporator |
SECURITY DEVICES INTERNATIONAL INC. |
STATE OF DELAWARE |
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT |
OF CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION |
The Corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware does hereby certify:
FIRST: That at a meeting of the only Director of Security Devices International Inc. a resolution was duly adopted March 2, 2005 setting forth a proposed amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation of said corporation and declaring said amendment to be advisable.
The resolution setting forth the proposed amendment is as follows:
RESOLVED, that the Certificate of Incorporation of this corporation be amended by changing the Article thereof numbered "4" so that, as amended, said Article shall be and read as follows:
4.A. The authorized capital stock of the Corporation shall consist of 50,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value, and 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.001 par value.
B. No share of the common stock shall have any preference over or limitation in respect to any other share of such common stock. All shares of common stock shall have equal rights and privileges.
C. Each outstanding share of common stock shall be entitled to one vote at stockholders' meetings, either in person or by proxy.
D. The preferred shares may be issued in one or more series. The designations, powers, rights, preferences, qualifications, restrictions and limitations of each series of the preferred stock shall be established from time to time by the Corporation's Board of Directors, in accordance with the Delaware Corporation Law.
E. Cumulative voting shall not be allowed in elections of directors or for any purpose.
F. No holders of shares of capital stock of the Corporation shall be entitled, as such, to any preemptive or preferential right to subscribe to any unissued stock or any other securities which the Corporation may now or hereafter be authorized to issue.
SECOND: As of March 2, 2005 this Corporation had not received any payment for any of its stock.
THIRD: As of March 2, 2005 this Corporation had only one Director.
FOURTH: That said amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 241 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said corporation has caused this certificate to be signed this 2nd day of March, 2005.
By: | /s/ Sheldon Kales |
Authorized Officer | |
Title: | Director |
Name: | Sheldon Kales |
Exhibit 3.1
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT |
OF THE |
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION |
OF |
SECURITY DEVICES INTERNATIONAL INC. |
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THE UNDERSIGNED Chief Executive Officer of SECURITY DEVICES INTERNATIONAL INC., a corporation organized under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the Corporation), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:
1. | The certificate of incorporation of the Corporation is hereby amended by changing the paragraph 4.A to read as follows: |
4.A The authorized capital stock of the Corporation shall consist of 200,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value, and 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.001 par value.
2. |
This amendment was duly adopted by the board of directors in accordance with Section 242 of the Delaware General Corporation Law and approved by the written consent of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of the common stock of the Corporation in accordance with Sections 228 and 242 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. |
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed this certificate of amendment of the certificate of incorporation of the SECURITY DEVICES INTERNATIONAL INC., this 6th day of October, 2017.
/s/ Dean Thrasher |
Dean Thrasher, Chief Executive Officer |