2021Bylaws

Articles of Incorporation (Colorado)

of Columbia, Canada, Republic of Mexico and the Republic of Panama. Amend. 2021 (3) To create and maintain a charitable and educational fund, a fund for the purchase, erection, operation and maintenance of Shriners Hospitals for Children, and other benevolences, and any other fund or trust necessary or convenient in carrying out any of the purposes, benevolences and charities now established, or which may be hereafter authorized by the corporation. (4) To accept and receive gifts, devises, bequests, dona- tions, annuities and endowments, of real and personal property, and to use, hold and enjoy the same, both as to principal and income, and invest and reinvest the same, or any part thereof, for the furtherance of any of the objects, interests or purposes of the corporation, as hereinbefore stated, or such as may hereafter be authorized. (5) This is a non-stock, non-profit corporation. (6) No member of the corporation shall receive any prof- its from its operations. (7) The property, subject to the provisions herein con- tained, is irrevocably dedicated to religious, charitable, scientific or hos- pital purposes, and upon the liquidation, dissolution or abandonment of the owner, no part of the property will inure to the benefit of any private person except a fund, foundation or corporation organized and operated for religious, charitable, scientific or hospital purposes. (8) To use and exercise all the powers, rights and privi- leges incidental to charitable and benevolent corporations organized for purposes other than pecuniary profit, and which are usually exercised by charitable and benevolent corporations. (9) Payments for their care may be accepted from insur- ance companies, government agencies, or others required by contract or by law to pay for care for patients. Payment for their care shall not be accepted from patients, their parents or their guardians, except for coin- surance, deductible amounts, or other obligations applicable to such private insurance coverage or government payment programs, which amounts may be accepted. (10) The powers specified and clauses contained in the foregoing paragraphs shall in no wise limit or restrict, by reference to or inference from, the terms of any clause of any other paragraph in these Articles, but the powers specified in each of the several clauses of the paragraphs shall be regarded as independent powers and purposes.

BYLAWS (COLORADO)

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