Officers and Directors approved during the 2012 annual
meeting of Horse Help Providers, Inc., on Jan. 31, 2012.
Deana Fuller and Dawn Jamison, Directors
Tina Hillman, Treasurer
Heidi Skancke, Director & Secretary
Traci Jarvis, Director and VP
Darci Hortness, Director and President
Organization: HORSE HELP PROVIDERS INC EIN: 80-0031520 Submission Type: Form 990-N Year: 2010
The IRS has accepted the e-Postcard described above. Please save this receipt for your records. Thank you for filing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- HORSE HELP PROVIDERS INC % Darci Hortness 25337 470 Ave Crooks, SD 57020
The annual meeting for Horse Help Providers, Inc., was held on Jan. 30, 2011, at the Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls, SD.
and here they all are with Guest Speaker Darci Adams, South Dakota State Director for HSUS.
A thank you note was sent to Dr. Steve Tornberg, DVM, for his many years as Director. Thanks also to Shanna Peters-Walters for serving as Director in 2010.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION of Horse Help Providers, Inc.
(certain personal information has not been published here, per consultation with an Internal Revenue Service representative)
The undersigned natural persons of the age of twenty-one (21) years or more, all of whom are residents of the State of South Dakota, acting as Incorporators of a Nonprofit Corporation under the South Dakota Nonprofit Corporation Act, adopt the following Articles of Incorporation for such Corporation:
ARTICLE I
The name of the Corporation is: Horse Help Providers, Inc.
ARTICLE II
The period of its duration is perpetual.
ARTICLE III
The corporation is organized under the South Dakota Nonprofit Corporation Act exclusively for prevention of cruelty to animals (specifially equines), the education of the public on humane treatment of equines, and to engage in any activity incidental or related thereto and such other activities as shall be considered desireable by the Directors for carrying out and putting into effect the puporse of the Corporation as it relates to South Dakota Law 40-2-1, and any and all other lawful purposes for which corporations may be incorporated under this Act, provided all such purposes are within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
ARTICLE IV
The corporation shall have members.
ARTICLE V
Upon the dissolution of the Corporation, the Board of Directors shall, after paying or making provisions for the payment of all the liabilities of the Corporation, dispose of all the assets of the Corporation exclusively for the purposes of the Corporation in such a 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. Any such assets not so disposed of shall be disposed of by the Circuit Court, or other appropriate Court, of the County in which the principal office of the Corporation is then located, exclusively for such purposes or to such organization or organizations as said Court shall determine which are organized and operated exclusively for such purpose.
ARTICLE VI
Directors shall be elected or appointed from time to time by majority vote of the then serving Directors.
ARTICLE VII
All provisions for the regulation of the internal affairs of the Corporation will be established in Bylaws as adopted, from time to time, by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE VIII
The address of the Registered Office of the Corporation is 25337 470 Avenue, Crooks, South Dakota 57020 and the name of its Registered Agent at such address is Darci Hortness.
ARTICLE IX
The number of Directors constituting the initial Board of Directors of the Corporation is three (3).
ARTICLE X
The Corporation shall have the specific power to indemnify as set forth in Sections 47-22-65.1 to 47-22-65.8 and Section 47-23-27 of the South Dakota Nonprofit Corporation Act.
ARTICLE XII
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 intervent (including the publishing or distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office.
ARTICLE XIII
Notwithstanding any other provisions of these Articles, the Corporation shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on (i) by a corporation exempt from Federal Income Tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law) or (ii) 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 Revneue Law).
ARTICLE XIV
The names of the Incorporators are:
Darci Hortness, Holly Johnson, Kristi Quaintance
ARTICLE XV
These Articles may be amended in the manner authorized by law at the time of the amendment.
