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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF
Secular Organizations for Sobriety, Inc.
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Under Section 402 of the Not-For-Profit Corporation Law

The undersigned, natural persons at least 18 years of age, for the purpose of forming a corporation under section 402 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law of the State of New York hereby certify:

1. The name of the Corporation is Secular Organizations for Sobriety.

2. The Corporation is a Corporation as defined in subparagraph (a)(5) of Section 102 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law of the State of New York, and is a Type B corporation.

3. The purposes for which the Corporation is to be formed are as follows:

(a) To survey and analyze the community's needs in connections with prevention and education concerning alcohol and drug abuse.

(b) To establish an organization, based on the principles of democratic secular humanism in order to promote, develop, establish and coordinate and conduct unified programs for education, prevention, and community referral in the field of alcohol and drug abuse.

(c) To provide education on the nature and results of drug abuse and on the potentialities of prevention and rehabilitation in order to promote public understanding, interest and support.

(d) To provide support for former substance abusers who wish to remain addiction free. The corporation shall not operate or maintain a clinic or treatment center.

(e) To disseminate information relating to public and private services and facilities available for the assistance of alcohol and drug abusers.

(f) To prepare, compile, edit and publish from time to time, on a not-for-profit basis, a newsletter regarding democratic secular humanism alternatives and for the exchange and dissemination only of information relating to alcohol and drug abuse.

(g) To operate on a not-for-profit, but self-sustaining basis.

(h) To accept, receive, hold, reinvest, and administer gifts, legacies, bequests, devices, funds, benefits of trust (but not to act as trustee of any trust) and property of any sort or nature, and to use, apply, employ, expend, disburse and/or donate the income and/or the principal thereof, and/or to devote the same to exclusively charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended, but the corporation shall not operate any hospital, clinic or any other facility, as defined in section 8 Of the Mental Hygiene Law and Section 460-a of the Social Services Law.

(i) To enter into, make and perform contracts of a sort and description necessary to the activities of the corporation with any person, firm, association, corporation, body politic or government.

(j) In furtherance of its corporate purpose, to buy, acquire, own, hold, maintain, operate, manage, use, develop, improve, rent, lease, mortgage and deal in real estate, improved and unimproved and any and all interests or rights therein, subject to such limitations as are prescribed by law.

(k) To purchase, acquire, lease or otherwise hold, own, use and operate real or personal property as may be requisite for the transaction of its business or the conduct of its affairs.

(l) In general, to exercise such powers which now are or hereafter may be conferred by law upon a corporation organized for the purposes hereinabove set forth, or necessary or incidental to the powers so conferred or conducive to the attainment of the purposes of the corporation subject to such limitations as are or may be prescribed by law.

4. The office of the Corporation in the State of New York is to be located in the County of Erie.

5. The territory in which the activities of the Corporation are principally to be conducted is within Erie County.

6. No part of the income of the Corporation shall inure to the benefit of any member (except as prescribed by IRC 501(c)(2)), trustee, director, officer of the Corporation, or any private individual (except that reasonable compensation may be paid for services rendered to or for the Corporation affecting one or more if its purposes), and no member, trustee, officer of the Corporation or any private individual shall be entitled to share in the distribution of any of the corporate assets on dissolution of the Corporation (except as permitted under Article 5 of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law).

7. No part of the activities of the Corporation shall be carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, or participating in, or intervening in (including the publication or distribution of statements), any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Certificate, the Corporation shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on (a) by a Corporation exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law), or (b) by a Corporation, contributions to which are deductible under Section 170(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law).

B. Upon the dissolution of the Corporation, after paying or making provision for the payment of all the Corporation's liabilities, the Board of Directors shall dispose Of all of the assets of the Corporation exclusively for the purposes of the Corporation in such manner, or to such organization or organizations organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, religious 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 1986 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue law), as the Board of Directors shall determine, and as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York shall approve.

9. The names and residences of the initial directors of the Corporation are:

     NAMES                                ADDRESSES

     Paul Kurtz 3159 Bailey Ave., Buffalo, New York
     Timothy Madigan 3159 Bailey Ave., Buffalo, New York
     James Christopher 3159 Bailey Ave., Buffalo, New York

10. In the event that in any year the corporation shall be a "private foundation," as that term is defined in Section 509 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended,

A. The corporation shall distribute its income for each taxable year at such time and in such manner as not to subject it to tax under Section 4942 of said Code, and A. The corporation shall not

(a) engage in any act of self-dealing as defined in Section 4941(c) of the Code;

(b) retain any excess business holdings as defined in Section 4943(c) of the Code;

(c) make any investments in such manner as to subject the corporation to tax under Section 4944 of the Code; or

(d) make any taxable expenditures as defined in Section 4945(d) of the Code.

11. The Secretary of the State of New York is hereby designated the agent of the Corporation upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Corporation served upon him as agent of the Corporation is The Corporation, c/o Magavern & Magavern, 1100 Rand Building, Buffalo, New York 14203.

12. Prior to the delivery of this Certificate of Incorporation to the Department of State for filing, all approvals or consents required by the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law or by any other Statute of New York will be endorsed upon or annexed hereto.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, made, signed and acknowledged this Certificate of Incorporation on Dec. 18, of 1990.

[signed]
Paul Kurtz
Incorporator
Timothy Madigan
Incorporator
James Christopher
Incorporator