Exhibit 1.15
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
CE PHILADELPHIA REAL ESTATE, INC.
ARTICLE ONE
The name of
the corporation is CE Philadelphia Real Estate, Inc. (hereinafter called the
Corporation).
ARTICLE TWO
The address of
the Corporations registered office in the State of Delaware is Corporation
Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New
Castle. The name of its registered
agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.
ARTICLE THREE
The purpose of
the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which
corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware.
ARTICLE FOUR
The total
number of shares of capital stock which the Corporation shall have the
authority to issue is one hundred (100) shares of Common Stock, no par value.
ARTICLE FIVE
The name and
the mailing address of the incorporator are as follows:
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Name
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Address
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Matthew R.
Perkins
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1050 17th
St., Suite 1500
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Denver, CO
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ARTICLE SIX
The Corporation
is to have perpetual existence.
ARTICLE SEVEN
No director
shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary
damages for any breach of fiduciary duty by such person as a director. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, a
director shall be liable to the extent provided by applicable law (i) for
breach of the directors 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. No amendment to or repeal of this Article
Seven shall apply to or have any effect on the liability
or alleged liability of any director of the Corporation for or with
respect to any acts or omissions of such director occurring prior to such
amendment.
ARTICLE EIGHT
Section
1. Nature of Indemnity. Each person who was or is made a party or is
threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any action, suit or
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative
(hereinafter a proceeding), by reason of the fact that he (or a person of
which he is the legal representative) is or was a director or officer of the
Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a
director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of another corporation or of a
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with
respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such proceeding is
alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee,
fiduciary or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer,
employee, fiduciary or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the
Corporation to the fullest extent which it is empowered to do so by the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same exists or may hereafter
be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that
such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification
rights than said law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such
amendment) against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys fees
actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such
proceeding) and such indemnification shall inure to the benefit of such
persons heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that except as
provided in Section 2 of this Article Eight, the Corporation shall not
indemnify any such person in connection with a proceeding initiated by such
person unless such proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors of the
Corporation. The Corporation may, by
action of the Board of Directors, provide indemnification to employees and
agents of the Corporation with the same scope and effect as the foregoing
indemnification of directors and officers.
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2. Procedure for
Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Any indemnification of a director or officer of the Corporation under
Section I of this Article Eight or advance of expenses under Section 5 of this
Article Eight shall be made promptly and, in any event within 30 days, upon the
written request of the director or officer.
If a determination by the Corporation that the director or officer is
entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Article Eight is required, and the
Corporation fails to respond within 60 days to a written request for indemnity,
the Corporation shall be deemed to have approved the request. If the Corporation denies a written request
for indemnification or advancing of expenses, in whole or in part, or if
payment in full pursuant to such request is not made within 30 days, the right
to indemnification or advances as granted by this Article Eight shall be
enforceable by the director or officer in any court of competent
jurisdiction. Such persons costs and
expenses incurred in connection with successfully establishing his right to
indemnification, in whole or in part, in any such action shall also be
indemnified by the Corporation. It
shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action brought to enforce
a claim for expenses incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its
final disposition where the required undertaking, if any, has been tendered to
the Corporation) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which
make it permissible under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware
for the Corporation to indemnify
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the claimant for the amount claimed, but the
burden of such defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including the Board of
Directors, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) to have made a
determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of
the claimant is proper in the circumstances because such person met the
applicable standard of conduct set forth in the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including
its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) that the
claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to
the action or create a presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable
standard of conduct.
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3. Nonexclusivity of
Article Eight. The rights to
indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding
in advance of its final disposition conferred in this Article Eight shall not
be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire
under any statute, certificate of incorporation, bylaw, agreement, vote of
stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
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4. Insurance. The Corporation may purchase and maintain
insurance on its own behalf and on behalf of any person who is or was a
director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of the Corporation or was
serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or
agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by
such person in any such capacity, whether or not the Corporation would have the
power to indemnify such person against such liability under this Article Eight.
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5. Expenses. Unless the Board of Directors shall have
determined that a person described in Section 1 of this Article Eight has failed
to meet the applicable standard of conduct for indemnification under the
Delaware General Corporation Law, expenses incurred by such person in defending
a proceeding shall be paid by the Corporation in advance of such proceedings
final disposition upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such person
to repay such amounts if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is
not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation. Such expenses incurred by other employees and agents may be so
paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Board of Directors deems
appropriate.
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6. Employees and Agents. Persons who are not covered by the foregoing
provisions of this Article Eight and who are or were employees or agents of the
Corporation, or who are or were serving at the request of the Corporation as
employees or agents of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust
or other enterprise, may be indemnified to the extent authorized at any time or
from time to time by the Board of Directors.
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7. Contract Rights. The provisions of this Article Eight shall
be deemed to be a contract right between the Corporation and each director or
officer who serves in any such capacity at any time while this Article Eight
and the relevant provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware or other applicable law are in effect, and any repeal or modification
of this Article Eight or any such law shall not affect any rights or
obligations then existing with respect to any state of facts or proceeding then
existing.
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Section
8. Merger or
Consolidation. For purposes of this
Article Eight, references to the Corporation shall include, in addition to
the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any
constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if
its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to
indemnify its directors, officers and employees or agents, so that any person
who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent
corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent
corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same
position under this Article Eight with respect to the resulting or surviving
corporation as such person would have with respect to such constituent
corporation if its separate existence had continued.
ARTICLE NINE
The
Corporation reserves the right to amend or repeal any provisions contained in
this Certificate of Incorporation from time to time and at any time in the
manner now or hereafter prescribed by the laws of the State of Delaware, and
all rights conferred upon stockholders and directors are granted subject to
such reservation.
ARTICLE TEN
The Board of
Directors shall have the power to adopt, amend or repeal the Corporations
Bylaws, except as may be otherwise be provided in the Bylaws.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
Upon the
filing of this Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware, the incorporators powers as incorporator of the Corporation
shall terminate. At such time, the
following person shall constitute the initial director of the Corporation, to
serve until his successor is duly appointed and shall qualify:
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Director
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Address
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Robert L.
King
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Environmental Way
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Broomfield,
CO 80021
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I, the
undersigned, being the sole incorporator hereinbefore named, for the purpose of
forming a corporation in pursuance of the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware, do make and file this Certificate, hereby declaring and certifying
that the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set by
hand this 4th day of February 1999.
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/s/
Matthew R. Perkins
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Matthew R.
Perkins, Incorporator
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