Article of Incorporation of OCC/NIBS

   Minutes of Meeting of Incorporator of OCC/NIBS

   Minutes of special meeting of the trustees of OCC/NIBS

   Minutes of first meeting of trustees of OCC/NIBS

   Code of Regulations of the OCC/NIBS

We, the undersigned natural persons of the age of twenty-one (21) years or more, and citizens of the United States, acting as incorporators and desiring to organize a corporation under the laws of the state of Ohio Non-Profit Corporation Act, adopt, by direction of all the Incorporators so appointed, the following Articles of Incorporation for such corporation.

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is: The Ohio Consultative Council of the National Institute of Building Sciences.

SECOND: The principal office of the corporation shall be located in Columbus, Ohio.

THIRD: The Corporation is organized for scientific and educational purposes as may qualify it as exempt from Federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law). More specifically, the purposes for which the Corporation is organized are:

1. To assist and support the Institute, and its national Consultative Council, in the discharge of its responsibilities in furthering and carrying out the purposes and achieving the objectives of NIBS enabling legislation (the Housing an Community Development Act of 1974);
   
2. To act as a forum in which issues of concern to the state and area building community may be aired and solutions sought through broad-based proceedings;
   
3. To created a climate of cooperation and communications which permits the building community, including consumers, to provide the maximum value in housing and building construction;
   
4. To encourage introduction and acceptance of innovative materials, products and techniques in housing and building construction;
   
5. To seek the most rational regulatory environment possible for the building community by examining and recommending changes in existing regulations and statutes and by monitoring the development and promulgation of new regulations and statutes;
   
6. To provide maximum opportunity for participation of its members in all issues that come before the Institute and this council;
   
7. To submit to the Institute local problems and solutions that are perceived to be of national importance;
   
8. To encourage the utilization of NIBS technical findings and recommendations.
   

FOUTH: The affairs of the Corporation shall be conducted as provided for in the Bylaws of the Corporation to be adopted by the Board of Directors, which shall be consistent with the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Institute.

No part of the net earnings of the Corporation shall inure to the benefit of or be distributable to its Executive Board, officers, or other private persons, except that the Corporation shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in Article Third hereto. No substantial part of the activities of the Corporation shall be the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the Corporation shall not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office. Notwithstanding any other provision of these Articles, the corporation shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on by a corporation exempt from Federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law).

In the event of dissolution or final liquidation of the Corporation, the Executive Board shall, after paying or making provision for the payment of all of the liabilities of the Corporation, dispose of all of the assets of the Corporation in such manner or to such organization or organizations organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, literary or scientific purposes, as shall at the time qualify as an exempt organization or organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law), as the Executive Board shall determine.

FIFTH: The Executive Board of the Corporation shall be appointed or elected in the manner provided for in the Bylaws.

SIXTH: The number of members constituting the initial Board of Directors is three (3), and the name and addresses, including street and number, of the persons who are to serve as the initial Executive Board until their successors are elected and qualified are:

David Ledvinka
3825 Columbus Road, SW P.O. Box 515
Granville, Ohio 43023

Bruce Larcomb
3592 Corporate Drive
Columbus,Ohio 43231

Edward Keprel
76 East High Street
Springfield,Ohio 45502

SEVENTH: The name, address, including street and number, of the incorporater is:

W. Sean Kelleher, Esq.
75 East Wilson Bridge Road
Suite C-3
Worthington, Ohio 43085

Dated: March 19, 1993