Amended and Restated Charter

Amended and Restated Charter
of
Buccaneer Football & Friends Foundation, Inc.


Pursuant to the provisions of the Tennessee Nonprofit Corporation Act, and specifically the provisions of T.C.A. § 48-60-106, the undersigned corporation adopts the following Amended and Restated Charter:

  1. The name of the corporation is Buccaneer Football & Friends Foundation, Inc.

  2. This corporation is a public benefit corporation.

  3. The registered office of the corporation is located at 130 Shadow Hill Lane, Bristol, Virginia 24201. The registered office of the corporation is located in the City of Bristol, Virginia. Terry C. Frye is the registered agent of the corporation and his address is the same as the registered office of the corporation.

  4. The principal office of the corporation is located at 3376 Greenwood Drive, Johnson City, Tennessee 37604. The principal office of the corporation is located in Washington County.

  5. The corporation is not for profit.

  6. The corporation shall have members.

  7. The purposes for which this corporation is organized are exclusively religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational within the meaning of § 501(c)(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue law.

    However, and notwithstanding any other provision of this charter, this organization shall not carry on any activities not permitted to be carried on by an organization exempt from Federal income tax under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the corporation shall not attempt to influence legislation by propaganda or otherwise, nor shall it intervene in, or participate in, any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office, and provided further that no part of the net earnings of the corporation shall inure for the benefit of any private individual and no director or officer of the corporation shall receive any pecuniary benefit from the corporation except such reasonable compensation as may be allowed for services actually rendered.

  8. Upon the dissolution of the corporation, all of its assets shall be distributed for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or shall be distributed to the Federal, state or local government for a public purpose. Any such assets not so disposed of shall be disposed of by the Chancery Court of the county in which the principal office of the corporation is then located, exclusively for such purposes.

  9. The corporation shall indemnify each officer and director made a party to any proceeding because he is or was an officer or director where such officer or director conducted himself in good faith and such officer and director reasonably believed that his conduct was in its best interest, where such conduct shall have been in such officer of director's official capacity with the corporation, and in all other cases where such conduct was at least not opposed to the best interest of the corporation. In the event there shall be any criminal proceeding, this provision pertaining to indemnification shall also be applicable so long as such officer or director had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. In the event that the corporation shall ever have established an employee benefit plan and any officer of director shall act in respect thereto, indemnification shall be applicable if such officer of director reasonably believed such action to be in the best interest of the participants in, and the beneficiaries of, such plan or that his conduct was at least not opposed to their best interest. The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to any proceeding by or in the right of the corporation in which an officer or director is adjudged liable to the corporation or in connection with any other proceeding where such officer or director is charged with obtaining an improper personal benefit (whether or not involving action in his official capacity) where such officer or director is adjudged liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by him. The determination of the entitlement to indemnification shall be made by the corporation subject to an officer of director's right to bring an independent action for indemnification as provided by T.C.A. § 48-52-101 et seq as from time to time amended.

BUCCANEER FOOTBALL & FRIENDS FOUNDATION, INC.



  Buc Football & Friends Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 250 • Mountain Home • Johnson City, TN 37684