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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 
(Non-Profit Corporation) 

OF 
ROTARY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION 
I, the undersigned, being over the age of twenty-one (21) years and acting 
as the incorporator of a corporation under the provisions of the Washington Non-Profit 
Corporation Act (Revised Code of Washington § 24.03) adopt the following Articles of 
Incorporation for such corporation: 
ARTICLE I 
NAME
The name of this Corporation shall be: Rotary Scholarship Foundation. 
ARTICLE II 
INTENT
The Foundation is intended to be an organization which is 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) and which 
is an organization described in Section 509(a)(3) (or corresponding provision of any future 
United States Internal Revenue law). All terms and provisions of these Articles and all 
operations of the Foundation shall be construed, applied, and carried out in accordance 
with such intent. 
ARTICLE III 
PURPOSE
The purposes for which the Corporation is organized are: 

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1. The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, literary, 
scientific and educational purposes as set forth in Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal 
Revenue Code including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations 
	that qualify as exempt organizations und, Section 501 (c)(3) of such Code. 	 

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2. No part of the net earnings of the Corporation shall inure to the benefit 
of, or be distributable to its directors, 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 these Articles of Incorporation. 
3. No substantial part of the activities of the Corporation shall be the 
carrying on of propaganda (no part of the activities of a private foundation may be used to 
influence legislation as defined in Section 4945), 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. 
4. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these Articles, 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)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, 
(b) by a Corporation. contributions to which are deductible under section 170(c){2) ofthe 
Internal Revenue Code, or (c) by a nonprofit Corporation organized under the laws of the 
State of Washington pursuant to the provisions of RCW Title 24.03. 
ARTICLE IV 
TERMINATION
Upon the termination, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the 
Board of Directors shall, after paying or making provision for the payment of all liabilities 
of the Corporation, distribute all assets of the Corporation to The Rotary Foundation 
Permanent Fund of Rotary International to be used for educational purposes. Any such 
assets not so disposed of shall be transferred to an organization or organizations 
organized and operated exclusively for charitable. educational 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. Any such assets not so disposed of shalf be 
disposed of by the Court in 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 
purposes. 
ARTICLE V 
INCOME DISTRIBUTION 
The Corporation shall distribute its income for each tax year at such time 
and in such manner as not to become subject to the tax on undistributed income imposed 
by Section 4942 of the Internal Revenue Code. Further, the Corporation shall not engage ' 

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in any act of self-dealing as defined in Section 4941 (d) of the Internal Revenue Code, nor 
retain any excess business holdings as defined in Section 4943(c) of the Internal 
Revenue Code, nor make any investments in such manner as to incur tax liability under 
Section 4944 of the Internal Revenue Code, nor make any taxable expenditures as 
defined in Section 4945(d) of the Internal Revenue Code. 
ARTICLE VI 
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
The Corporation shall be organized on a non-stock basis and shall have no 
members. The authority for all affairs of the- Corporation shalt be in a Board of Directors 
who shall have and may exercise all the powers of the Corporation as permitted by 
federal law, state Jaw, these Articles of Incorporation, and the Bylaws of the Corporation 
as from time to time in effect. The Board of Directors shall be nine (9) to fifteen (15) in 
number, and their names and addresses of the initial Directors are as follows: 

NAME 	STREET ADDRESS 		
Eugene Donat 	221 Manzanita 		
	Moses Lake, WA 98837 		
Bill B. Bailey 	234 Crestview Drive 		
	Moses Lake, \filA 98837 		
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Peter T. Erickson 	684 Edgewater 		
	Moses Lake, WA 98837 		
David F. Bonato 	1053 W. Broadway 		
	Moses Lake, WA 98837 		
Clay Crook 	431 W. Northshore 		
	Moses Lake, WA 98837 		
Regan D. Bonato 	1053 W. Broadway 	- ~ .. 	
	Moses Lake, WA 98837 	--J' 	
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Don Unland 	148 Pelican Drive S.E. 		
	Moses Lake, WA 98837 		
Gary Pedersen 	915 Edgewater Lane 		
	Moses Lake, WA 98837 		
Harold Tracy 	538 N. Crestview Dr. 		
	Moses Lake, WA 98837 		
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ARTICLE VII 
INCORPORATOR
The name and address of the incorporator of the corporation is David F. 
Bonato, 1053 W. Broadway, Moses Lake, Washington 98837. 
ARTICLE VIII 
TERM OF EXISTENCE 
The Corporation shall exist perpetually unless dissolved according to law. 
ARTICLE· IX 
REGISTERED AGENT AND OFFICE 
The name and address of the initial registered agent and registered office 
are: 

Registered Agent: 
Registered Office: 

David F. Bonato 
1053 W. Broad~§y 
Moses Lake, Washington 98837 
ARTICLE X 
AMENDMENTS

Any amendments to these Articles of Incorporation shall be made in 
accordance with the provisions of the laws of the State of Washington. 
ARTICLE XI 
DEFINITIONS
All general or specific references herein made to the Internal Revenue 
Code shall be deemed to refer to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as now in force or 
later amended; or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal 
Revenue law. Similarly. any genera! or specific references to the laws of the State of 
Washington shall be deemed to refer to the laws of the State of Washington as now in 
force or hereafter amended. 

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I, the Incorporator, declare that I have examined the foregoing Articles of 
Incorporation and that the statements contained therein are, to the best of my knowledge 
and belief, true, correct and complete. 

		Executed this 22nd day of July, 1999.

STATE OF WASHINGTON) 
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	COUNTY OF GRANT 	) 

I CERTIFY that I know or have satisfactory evidence that David F. Bonato 
signed this instrument and acknowledged it to be his free and voluntary act for the uses 
and purposes mentioned in the instrument. 
DATED this 22nd day of July, 1999. 

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	Printed or typed Name:  Nancy G. Bailey
	NOTARY PUBLIC.  State of Washington. 	. 
My appointment expires 11-5-02 

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CONSENT TO APPOINTMENT AS REGISTERED AGENT 

DAVID F. BONATO, hereby consents to serve as registered agent, in the 
State of Washington for the following corporation: Rotary Scholarship Foundation. The 
undersigned understands that as agent for the Corporation, it will be his responsibility to 
accept service of process in the name of the Corporation; and to immediately notify the 
Office of the Secretary of State. of its resignation or of any changes in the address or the 
registered office of the Corporation for which it is agent. 
DATEDthis 2~~YOfJUIY' 1999 .. 

1053 W. Broadway 
Moses Lake, WA 98837 

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