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8-K - FORM 8-K - PSYCHIATRIC SOLUTIONS INC | g25281e8vk.htm |
EX-4.1 - EX-4,.1 - PSYCHIATRIC SOLUTIONS INC | g25281exv4w1.htm |
EX-3.2 - EX-3.2 - PSYCHIATRIC SOLUTIONS INC | g25281exv3w2.htm |
Exhibit 3.1
AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
PSYCHIATRIC SOLUTIONS, INC.
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is Psychiatric Solutions, Inc.
SECOND: The address, including street, number, city and county, of the registered
office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street,
County of New Castle, Wilmington, Delaware 19801 and the name of the registered agent of the
Corporation in the State of Delaware at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.
THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for
which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH: The aggregate number of shares which the Corporation shall have authority to
issue is 1,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share.
FIFTH: In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred upon it by law,
the Board of Directors of the Corporation is expressly authorized to adopt, amend or repeal the
By-laws of the Corporation.
SIXTH: To the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware as it now exists and as it may hereafter be amended, no director or officer of the
Corporation or any predecessor corporation of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the
Corporation or any predecessor corporation of the Corporation or any of their respective
stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer;
provided, however, that nothing contained in this Article SIXTH shall eliminate or
limit the liability of a director or officer (i) for any breach of the directors or officers duty
of loyalty to the Corporation or any predecessor corporation of the Corporation or their respective
stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct
or a knowing violation of law, (iii) pursuant to Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware or (iv) for any transaction from which the director or officer derived an
improper personal benefit. No amendment to or repeal of this Article SIXTH shall apply to or have
any effect on the rights or liability or alleged liability of any director or officer of the
Corporation or any predecessor corporation of the Corporation for or with respect to any acts or
omissions of such director or officer occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.
SEVENTH: The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented,
indemnify any and all persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said section from and
against any and all of the expenses, liabilities or
other matters referred to in or covered by said section. Such indemnification shall be
mandatory and not discretionary. The indemnification provided for herein pursuant to Article SIXTH
and this Article SEVENTH shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those
indemnified may be entitled under any By-laws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested
directors or otherwise, both as to action in his or her official capacity and as to action in
another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be
a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and
administrators of such a person. Any repeal or modification of this Article SEVENTH shall not
adversely affect any right to indemnification of any persons existing at the time of the alleged
occurrence of any act or omission to act giving rise to liability or indemnification.
The Corporation shall to the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware advance all costs and expenses (including without limitation, attorneys fees and
expenses) incurred by any director or officer within 15 days of the presentation of same to the
Corporation, with respect to any one or more actions, suits or proceedings, whether civil,
criminal, administrative or investigative, so long as the Corporation receives from the director or
officer an unsecured undertaking to repay such expenses if it shall ultimately be determined that
such director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation under the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. Such obligation to advance costs and expenses shall be
mandatory, and not discretionary, and shall include, without limitation, costs and expenses
incurred in asserting affirmative defenses, counterclaims and cross claims. Such undertaking to
repay may, if first requested in writing by the applicable director or officer, be on behalf of
(rather than by) such director or officer.
EIGHTH: Unless and except to the extent that the By-laws of the Corporation shall so
require, the election of directors of the Corporation need not be by written ballot.