EXHIBIT 3.1
RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
(Without Amendment)
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RUSH ENTERPRISES, INC.
ARTICLE ONE
The name of the corporation is Rush Enterprises, Inc.
ARTICLE TWO
The period of duration of the corporation is perpetual.
ARTICLE THREE
The corporation is organized to transact any and all lawful business for which a corporation may be incorporated under the Texas Business Corporation Act.
ARTICLE FOUR
The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the corporation shall be authorized to issue is 51,000,000 shares, divided into the following: (i) 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, of the par value $.01 per share (Preferred Stock), (ii) 40,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, of the par value $.01 per share (Class A Common Stock) and (iii) 10,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock, of the par value $.01 per share (Class B Common Stock).
A description of the respective classes of stock and a statement of the designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights of such classes of stock and the limitations on or denial of the voting rights of the shares of such classes of stock are as follows:
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PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PREFERRED STOCK
Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series and in such amounts as may be fixed and determined herein or by the board of directors. The designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights, including voting rights, of each series of Preferred Stock shall be such as are fixed by the board of directors, and stated and expressed in a resolution or resolutions adopted by the board of directors providing for the establishment of any such series of Preferred Stock. The board of directors is hereby expressly authorized to establish any series of unissued shares of Preferred Stock by fixing and determining the designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights, including voting rights, of the shares of any series so established, within the limitations set forth in Article 2.13 of the Texas Business Corporation Act and herein, and to increase or decrease the number of shares within each such series; provided, however, that the board of directors may not decrease the number of shares within a series below the number of shares within such series that is then issued.
Except in respect of the particulars fixed by the board of directors for series established by the board of directors as permitted hereby, all shares of Preferred Stock shall be of equal rank and shall be identical. All shares of any one series of Preferred Stock so designated by the board of directors shall be alike in every particular, except that shares of any one series issued at different times may differ as to the dates from which dividends thereon shall be cumulative.
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PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO CLASS A AND CLASS B COMMON STOCK
C.
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO CLASS A COMMON STOCK
Any provision of the Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws of the corporation requiring the affirmative vote of a specified percentage of shares of the corporation shall be read to give effect to the lesser voting rights of the holders of Class A Common Stock as described above; specifically, a provision that the affirmative vote of a specified percentage of the shares of the corporation is required shall require the affirmative vote of the holders of that percentage of the aggregate voting power of the corporation.
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PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO CLASS B COMMON STOCK
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PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PREFERRED STOCK,
CLASS A COMMON STOCK AND CLASS B COMMON STOCK
ARTICLE FIVE
The corporation will not commence business until it has received for the issuance of its shares consideration of the value of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), consisting of money, labor done or property actually received.
ARTICLE SIX
The street address of its present registered office is 555 IH 35 South, New Braunfels, Texas 78130, and the name of the registered agent at such addresses is W.M. Rusty Rush.
ARTICLE SEVEN
The number of directors constituting the board of directors as of the date of these Restated Articles of Incorporation is six, and the names and addresses of the persons who are to serve as directors until the next annual meeting of the shareholders, or until their successors are elected and qualify are:
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W. Marvin Rush |
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555 IH 35 South, New Braunfels, Texas 78130 |
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W.M. Rusty Rush |
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555 IH 35 South, New Braunfels, Texas 78130 |
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Thomas A. Akin |
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555 IH 35 South, New Braunfels, Texas 78130 |
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Ronald J. Krause |
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555 IH 35 South, New Braunfels, Texas 78130 |
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Harold D. Marshall |
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555 IH 35 South, New Braunfels, Texas 78130 |
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John D. Rock |
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555 IH 35 South, New Braunfels, Texas 78130 |
ARTICLE EIGHT
A director of the corporation shall not be liable to the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for an act or omission in the directors capacity as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the directors duty of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders, (ii) for any act or omission not in good faith that constitutes a breach of duty of the director to the corporation or any act or omission that involves intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) for any transaction from which the director received an improper benefit, whether or not the benefit resulted from an action taken within the scope of the directors office, or (iv) for any act or omission for which the liability of the director is expressly provided by statute. If either the Texas Business Corporation Act, the Texas Miscellaneous Corporation Laws Act or any other applicable Texas statute hereafter is amended to authorize the further elimination or limitation of the liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the corporation, in addition to the limitation on liability provided herein, shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by such amended act. Any repeal or modification of this Article Eight by the shareholders of the corporation shall be prospective only, and shall not adversely affect any limitation on the liability of a director of the corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.
ARTICLE NINE
Any action required or which must or may be taken at any annual or special meeting of shareholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of shares of voting stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which the holders of all shares entitled to vote on the action were present and voted.
ARTICLE TEN
The power to alter, amend or repeal the bylaws or adopt new bylaws is vested in the board of directors, subject to repeal or change by action of the shareholders.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
If, with respect to any matter for which the affirmative vote or concurrence of the shareholders of the Corporation is required, any provision of the Texas Business Corporation Act would, but for this Article Eleven, require the affirmative vote or concurrence of the holders of shares having more than a majority of the votes entitled to vote on such matter, or of any class or series thereof, the affirmative vote or concurrence of the holders of shares having only a majority of the votes entitled to vote on such matter, or of any class or series thereof, shall be required with respect to any such matter.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of March 2005.
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/S/ W. Marvin Rush |
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W. Marvin Rush |
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Chairman of the Board and |
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Chief Executive Officer |