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RESTATED AND AMENDED <br />ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION <br />OF <br />HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INC. <br />ARTICLE I <br />Name <br />The name of the Corporation is Habitat For Humanity of St. Joseph County, Inc. <br />ARTICLE II <br />Purposes <br />This Corporation is a mutual benefit corporation that shall be organized and operated <br />for any lawful activity pursuant to the act. Without limiting the foregoing general statement of <br />purposes, the Corporation will operate exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, <br />including improvement of the condition of the poor, the distressed and underprivileged; reduction <br />inneighborhood tensions, community deterioration; elimination of prejudice and discrimination; and <br />defense of human and civil rights secured by law. In addition, the Corporation may, to the extent <br />permitted of a mutual benefit corporation described in the Act, build or rehabilitate houses in St. <br />Joseph County, Indiana for resident families in need of simple decent housing; work to guarantee <br />the right to a simple decent home for all families of St. Joseph County, Indiana; and work to <br />eliminate poverty and substandard housing from St. Joseph County, Indiana. <br />ARTICLE III <br />Powers <br />Subject to and in furtherance of the purposes for which it is organized, the <br />Corporation shall possess, in addition to the general rights, privileges, and powers conferred by law, <br />the following rights, privileges, and powers: <br />Section 1. To continue as a corporation under its corporate name perpetually. <br />Section 2. To sue, be sued, complain, and defend in the Corporation's corporate <br />name. <br />Section 3. To have a corporate seal or facsimile of a corporate seal, which may be <br />altered at will, to use by impressing or affixing or in any other manner reproducing it. However, the <br />